Russ wasn't done dirty at all.
Denver traded multiple picks for him and gave him one of the richest contracts in NFL history
His first season after demanding his own office and coining that cringy Broncos Country, Let's Ride nonsense, he puts an up a horrible and embarrassing season. Head coach gets fired and Denver cleans house.
His second season was an improvement but the new head coach came to the conclusion that Russ wasn't a fit in his system. Rather than continue to hammer a square peg in a round hole, Denver decides to move and bench him so they don't have to pay his injury guarantee. Denver is hit with a massive cap hit.
Russ walks away with 40 million dollars and gets to pick his next team.
Dude got paid at the end of the day. As soon as you saw the contract and what Broncos were giving up for him people were
I’m no analyst and most fans aren’t, but I doubt anybody thought Russ was a top 10 QB. Even if you have to overpay, why that much? Who are you competing against for his services? Stupid trade and contract regardless.
Then you fire a coach that won’t work with him. Fans are cool with 9-8 seasons. They could have rode it out had they chose another coach. Now you are in cap hell for two seasons. Do you point this season just to try to get a rookie that you have to work with for 2-4 years?
The NFL is hard. They are 9 years removed from Payton Manning.
Who had the worst contract? Broncos or Giants?