Wilson himself played a solid game. He completed 29 of his 42 attempts for 340 yards and a touchdown, but the Broncos’ ineffectiveness inside the Seattle 10-yard line kept them off the scoreboard.
Those struggles, paled, however, to the decision-making at the end of the game. After the Broncos traded a haul to acquire him, then signed him to a contract extension, they took him off the field at the Seattle 46-yard line down one point on fourth-and-5 with 24 seconds left to attempt a 64-yard field goal.
Brandon McManus missed that kick, which hammered the final nail in the coffin for the Broncos.
Nathaniel Hackett has borne the brunt of the criticism for the decision, but Wilson isn’t throwing his new head coach under the bus.
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“We got the best field goal kicker, maybe in the game,” Wilson told reporters after the game. “We said ‘where can you make it from tonight?’ He said ‘46 left hash’ … That was before the drive. And we got it there, unfortunately it didn’t go in…
Wilson also downplayed the boos from Seahawks fans that rained down on him throughout the game.
“The environment’s always special here,” he said. “I’ve been here for 10 years, it was special tonight, I thought everybody was focused and locked in … It just didn’t go our way.”
“…Seattle’s been amazing for me,” he added. “Anybody who thinks [otherwise] they don’t know how much this city has meant to me.”
Wilson hugged his former teammates and coach after the game, and he talked a lot about his relationship with them post-game.
“They may cheer for you, they may boo you,” he said of fandoms in general. “They’ll love you one day and they’ll hate you the next. And that’s sports.”
