Originally posted by TWOooohSIX:
Both are equally important. If it wasn't for some of his crazy plays against teams we would have not won. Lucky or not, we would not be making those plays with Flynn as our QB. He is hard to find and can run to get us first downs. MOST games are won by our D, but lately they have given up some points on big games. Wilson is the prototype game manager. Teams with elite D's need a GREAT GAME MANAGER. Be wonderful and all if every great D could have a perfect QB that can throw 5k a year and run for at least over 500. We don't have that. We have the run yards and a guy that CAN slow down the game with a running attack. Let our D sort it out. I have never been on the Wilson love wagon but he does fit the teams scheme. This is why we don't invest on O-lines and worry more about bringing in RB, and solid D players. This forum has said it enough that we don't have the best offense skill players, but the blueprint of a running QB with an elite tier D is what we will be building on for years till this regime leaves.
Sorry, but no. Russell Wilson is not as important as the defense and it isn't even close. You can cite his "crazy plays," but on those plays the receiver is usually the one making the crazy play. Wilson just lobs it up and somehow your mediocre receivers become top notch acrobatic pass catchers. The play that got Seattle down to the goal line in the Super Bowl before Russell Wilson threw the game losing INT is a good example of this. Maybe another QB like Matt Flynn wouldn't have even attempted the throw, but Wilson certainly isn't the person that made that play work. That play SHOULDN'T have worked. Without that ridiculous catch, Wilson doesn't even get you down to the red zone and you lose in a far less dramatic fashion. Later in your post, you go on to say "MOST games are won by our D," which proves you are aware that the defense is more important. Wilson's luck plays a role in your team's success, but without the defense holding opponents to low scores, your team would be losing a lot of games because Wilson cannot put up enough points to carry them to a win. Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees (a couple years ago), Andrew Luck - these guys manage to put enough points on the board to win games even if they have a mediocre defense. They are QBs that you can say are more important than (or equally as important as) their defenses. Wilson is not that kind of QB. A mediocre Seattle defense would mean a mediocre Seattle TEAM.
[ Edited by Empire49 on Jun 27, 2016 at 9:45 PM ]
