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Keeler: Russell Wilson doesn’t have to be Tom Brady. Or Peyton Manning. But for Year 1 in Broncos Country to fly, he’s gotta beat Kansas City. And get Denver back to playoffs.

Get a room, would ya, Russell Wilson haters? Preferably one with padded walls.

“The difference with Russell is, he is a lot more high-maintenance,” an anonymous NFL general manager told The Athletic in a piece published Monday.

“(Wilson has) got the entourage, he needs the office at the facility, the extra hotel rooms on the road, all that stuff.”

To hear some say it — some in Seattle, especially — you’d think the Broncos just handed the franchise keys over to the Duke of Rothesay rather than Russ from Richmond.

“It will be interesting how that dynamic works with a rookie head coach and rookie offensive coordinator,” the source continued, “how they jell.