“What the f*** is that?” Marshawn Lynch breaks down relationship with former Seattle Seahawks teammate Russell Wilson
Marshawn Lynch is not calling Russell Wilson for friendly life advice.
In fact, the former Seattle Seahawks teammates were never very close.
"Can't pick up the phone or call old boy or nothing," said Lynch, while appearing on Shannon Sharpe's podcast, .
He added: “Russ was just a quarterback for me.”
The relationship between Wilson and Seattle coach Pete Carroll fell apart, leading to Wilson being traded to the Denver Broncos.
The veteran quarterback is now coached by Sean Payton and leads a struggling 1-3 Denver squad.
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Asked by Sharpe if he kicked it and hung out with Wilson, Lynch just stared back at the host with a blank face.
The five-time Pro Bowler with 10,413 career rushing yards and 85 touchdowns said that he respected Wilson as a teammate.
"I'll take Russ and I'll put him at quarterback and I'll rock with him because I've done that," said Lynch, who retired from the NFL in 2019 after a comeback.
But that was where the praise stopped.
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Lynch, who once went out of his way to ignore the media, kept talking and talking about Wilson, Carroll and the Seahawks while being unafraid to reveal their private conversations.
“Anything that I say is gonna come off as malice or as if I'm a hater,” Lynch said.
He made it clear, though, that he wasn’t and isn’t tight with Wilson, and that the biggest personalities inside Seattle’s locker room didn’t mesh off the field.
“I don’t got his (Wilson’s) number,” Lynch said.
The Seahawks won Super Bowl XLVIII with Wilson, Lynch and Carroll, blowing out Peyton Manning and the Broncos 43-8 in a game that was never close.
But what should have been a second world championship disappeared when Carroll took the ball out of Lynch’s hands late in Super Bowl XLIX against New England.
After Wilson threw an interception to Patriots defensive back Malcolm Butler, Seattle began a downward trend that ended with Wilson forcing his way off the Seahawks.
Lynch also revealed that when he tried to reach out to Wilson after an off game against Tennessee, Wilson might have called him – with a blocked number.
“I don’t know how or why,” Lynch said. “I just know I got a call from a blocked number.”
Lynch, who also played with Buffalo and the Oakland Raiders, referred to a practice when it was clear that Carroll had placed Wilson on a pedestal and treated him differently than Seattle’s other star players.
“He don’t have to be held accountable to the same s*** that we do,” Lynch said. “What the f*** is that?”
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