The last few years have been rough for Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson since he left the Seattle Seahawks.
After two failed seasons with the Denver Broncos that led to his being released, the veteran signal-caller struggled in his preseason debut with the Steelers, which has led to a media onslaught against the embattled quarterback.
Whatever you want to chalk it up to, Wilson has not looked the same since he was with the Seahawks, and that has drawn a funny comparison from NFL Network's Kyle Brandt, who recently compared Wilson to an old Gateway computer (H/T Steelers Depot).
"I know Russell Wilson was on the Seahawks and at one point he was really good," Brandt said. "Like there has been the four years since then. Like, he's a computer that is just bound up with sicknesses and viruses. It doesn't work like it used to. If it did, he wouldn't be in Pittsburgh. If it did, he wouldn't have been in Denver. You know your computer at your mom's house and you go home, the old Gateway that's got rollercoaster tycoon on it, like it doesn't work anymore? It's fine. We respect it. We had a lot of great memories on that. We had a lot of projects and school papers that we did on that computer. It's not working anymore. It's slow. It's bogged down. The fact that we are talking about Russell Wilson going into the final preseason game to beat a Bears' castoff for the starting job, tells you everything you need to know."
Once a media darling, Wilson has been getting it from all angles over the past few years. His play has been an issue, no doubt, but he also hasn't been helped by lackluster supporting casts, something we saw in preseason Week 2 when the offensive line struggled mightily.
The calls for Justin Fields to start over Wilson have grown deafening since the start of training camp, when Wilson was sidelined due to a calf injury. For now, it looks like Wilson will get the nod in Week 1, and the only way he's going to silence his critics is to return to the high level of play we saw in Seattle for so many years.
