DENVER — The best insight into Russell Wilson last week came not from anonymous sources, or an axe looking for an easy grind, but from a guy who watched from prison as Mr. Unlimited lifted the Lombardi Trophy.
“I don’t think it’s one thing, and it’s not an excuse,” Ryan Leaf explained to me by phone Saturday. “I just wanted to comment on something that’s close to his heart because I know how much it has affected him. People have (expletive) all over him and I’m sick and tired of it. Has he brought some of it on himself? Yeah.”
Let’s be clear about a couple things, cards on the table. First, given his resume, you may not care what Leaf, now a football analyst and motivational speaker by trade, thinks about anything, let alone the most disappointing season in Broncos history. We get that. Leaf gets that, too.
