It only took Russell Wilson one tweet to thankfully become human again

Russell Wilson is a divisive figure among Seattle Seahawks fans. Is he a future Pro Football Hall of Famer? Maybe. He is definitely the best quarterback in franchise history. He was a very good quarterback on some great teams.

But through the years, his robotic answers to reporters' questions began to make him seem arrogant. He came off too cool, too poised, and it seemed an attempt to mask deep, hidden flaws. Wilson apparently forgot that the reason the team won the Super Bowl wasn't him and him alone.

He sealed his fate with the Seahawks after the 2021 season when he went to ownership and tried to get general manager John Schneider and head coach Pete Carroll fired. Clearly, he thought he knew more than Schneider and Carroll about how the team should be run. He didn't.

Seattle Seahawks watch as Russell Wilson finally stands up or himself

So when Wilson was dealt to the Denver Broncos in a trade that offseason, many 12s wanted Wilson to fail. He had betrayed Schneider and Carroll, and the head coach, for one, was more beloved than the quarterback. Seattle fans might have felt a guilty pleasure watching Wilson fail.

What was tough was watching Russell Wilson get verbally disrespected by new Broncos head coach Sean Payton. Payton has a longer history than Wilson in giving seemingly stock answers when he was actually slandering a player or organization. (Plus, there was the whole Bountygate mess when he was with the New Orleans Saints.) The coach came across as a bully, and Wilson was his target.

With Seattle Seahawks fans, it got complicated. 12s definitely didn't want Wilson to win a Super Bowl, but we didn't want to see him get mistreated as a human being. This still continues to be the case.

Wilson is now a backup, and his latest team, the New York Giants, had benched him after Week 3. Instead of RW3, New York began starting rookie Jaxson Dart, and Dart has been good.

He was good in Week 7 when the Giants lost to the Denver Broncos, too. Denver won the game with an incredible fourth quarter comeback, but the game would not have been close had Dart not been good for most of it.

After the victory, Sean Payton told reporters, in part, "I was talking to (Giants co-owner) John Mara not too long ago, and I said, ‘We were hoping (the quarterback change) change would’ve happened long after our game.'"

Payton knew what he was doing. He was throwing shade at Russell Wilson, and saying he would have rather his team faced his former quarterback than Dart. The coach has since claimed he didn't mean to imply anything negative about Wilson, but that's certainly false. Payton was simply bullying Wilson again for no reason.

Thankfully, Russell Wilson responded to Sean Payton. Wilson posted on X, "Classless… but not surprised...Didn’t realize you’re still bounty hunting 15+ years later through the media."

For Wilson to take to social media to comment negatively on something anyone says (and including the Bountygate receipts) takes a lot. Forget the robotic answer. Wilson was fierce, correct, and stood up for himself. He reminded us again that he is a real human being.

Russell Wilson acted like one of us would after being disparaged publicly by a bully. Good for him. He might still be a divisive figure among Seahawks fans, but for one tweet, at least, 12s can get behind the quarterback.