The Seattle Seahawks were one of the best teams of the 2010s, but the “Legion of Boom” days didn’t end on the best terms.
Much has been said over the years about how the Seahawks went from one of the best NFL teams of all time that could’ve won multiple Super Bowls to a squad that had tantalizing potential that it couldn’t fully realize.
The team’s disastrous finish to Super Bowl 49 where quarterback Russell Wilson threw a goal-line pick at the last minute recently got excavated by former Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman and coach Pete Carroll as those two buried the hatched on the infamous sequence.
Well, former Seattle running back/franchise legend Marshawn Lynch talked with Shannon Sharpe on the latter’s Club Shay Shay program about playing with Wilson and why the dynamic there never fully gelled with the rest of the team.
It’s a fascinating 9-minute conversation between Lynch and Sharpe about Wilson’s personality and how it meshed with the rest of the Seahawks.
Their illuminating talk touches on the reported friction between Wilson and the Seahawks defensive backs room and a very strange story about how Wilson might’ve had Lynch’s number blocked when the latter tried to call the former to encourage him after a tough day playing the Tennessee Titans.
Lynch’s retelling of Wilson’s reaction to that seemingly innocuous call also raises some eyebrows. We’ll let you listen in as to why.
NSFW language to follow.
Marshawn Lynch on Russell Wilson blocking his number:
“Russ was just a QB for me… I don’t have his number.” pic.twitter.com/85iEMtmPxp
— Club Shay Shay (@ClubShayShay) October 4, 2023
This is as interesting a set of insights as we’ve heard from a former NFL player in some time, as Lynch really does a nice job of painting a picture of what life was like in Seattle at times during the team’s golden run.
It doesn’t sound like Lynch has any hard feelings toward Wilson, and he said he was happy to have had him as his quarterback. However, it really didn’t seem like the two had the type of off-field connection that you’d expect, and that might’ve stretched for how Wilson interacted with the rest of his teammates.
Wilson is now in Denver, where he’s had his fair share of awkward encounters with his fellow Broncos. If anything, Lynch’s fascinating comments help further shed light into what exactly happened during those Seahawks glory days, and why they didn’t last as long as suspected.
