A post-mortem of Let Russ Cook

Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports Implied victimhood is a staple of internet discourse. I am sick to death of people seeing Russell Wilson as a victim. He’s rich. He’s young. He’s wildly successful. There is no strong evidence that anyone in Seattle has ever gotten in the way of Russell Wilson succeeding.

People who simply do not understand how pass blocking works have endlessly argued that Wilson is a victim of bad pass blocking. Yet so many of the offensive linemen who blocked for Wilson succeeded before blocking for Wilson and/or succeeded after blocking for Wilson. James Carpenter and Russell Okung still start. Okung earned a Pro Bowl nod in LA. Max Unger earned a Pro Bowl nod in New…