The 49ers might just have picked up another victory or two with Wilson’s departure, but let’s call that what it is: a double-edged sword.
Russell Wilson has been traded to the Denver Broncos, which should make Niners fans happy. The man tortured San Francisco’s teams for years. It’s wrong, every bit of it. Getting rid of Russell Wilson was supposed to feel like a release, or at the very least produce some sort of smug satisfaction: “I told you he was done.” Seeing Wilson shipped out of the NFC West is the sort of moment that probably should lead to a jubilant, defiant fist-pump for any self-respecting 49ers fan.
Wilson beat the Niners when he had the superior team. He beat the Niners when he had the inferior team. He beat them twice in 2021 – twice! – with a Seahawks crew that absolutely sucked carbon monoxide otherwise. Seattle was 5-10 against the rest of the world, 2-0 versus the 49ers. It was just despicable.
It didn’t ultimately matter; Kyle Shanahan’s crew got on a roll and went to the NFC title game despite a pedestrian 10-7 regular season record. But it was a 49ers-Seahawks moment, another one. It generated some good sports-hate. You get into a real rivalry, you’re allowed to go full-on sports-hate, and there isn’t much else in fandom that matches it.
Everybody battled everybody. Harbaugh and Carroll despised each other. It took Carroll two seasons before Seattle’s fortunes turned; Harbaugh, as you undoubtedly know, racked up a 13-3 record his first year out of the gate. By 2012, both teams were powerhouses. It was titanic. But that same placid guy was the one carving up the 49ers on the field, game after game, year after year. Even as the Seahawks began to fray around the edges, Wilson was a problem. For San Francisco fans, he represented a whole bunch of problems, really.
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