Former Seahawks QB and current radio analyst Warren Moon talked about Marshawn Lynch's trust issues with the organization during a radio interview Monday.
Seahawks analyst and NFL Hall of Famer Warren Moon made some interesting comments about Marshawn Lynch and Russell Wilson in a phone interview today on the Rich Eisen Show on DirecTV’s Audience Network and the Fox Sports Network.
Eisen told Moon that “it’s not just the X’s and O’s, Warren. The underlying issue of this mindset is that Russell Wilson is the favored child, if you will, for the Seahawks and Marshawn Lynch is not.”
Responded Moon, in a transcript released by the show:
“Every quarterback on a football team is a favored child. Let’s get that straight right away, okay. Every quarterback on every football team is the favored child, but they’re not going to do something that’s not going to make them win football games. Everybody knows how Marshawn Lynch is treated by the Seattle Seahawks organization. He’s treated like a china plate throughout the week of practice. He doesn’t practice, they make sure he’s rested, they make sure he’s healed, they make sure he’s ready to play. They’ve already put another offer on the table for him to be one of the highest paid running backs in the league, if not the highest paid. So they want Marshawn Lynch back around here given all the problems that he can cause for a football team and how much of a problem he is to manage. They still want the guy here. Part of Marshawn’s problem is he just doesn’t trust a lot of people and that trust goes into this same call at the Super Bowl. He just probably doesn’t think that they wanted him to have the football for all the reasons that he said, but that’s just Marshawn. He’s a different bird. He’s wound up a little bit differently because of his upbringing, because of the environment that he grew up in and some of the things that have happened to him earlier in his career. All that thinking by him is understood; doesn’t mean it’s always valid but it’s understood.”
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There’s a lot there.
As Moon notes, the team has worked with Lynch the last few years to get him well physically for gameday, with Lynch usually practicing only once or twice a week.
Moon also talks about “how much of a problem (Lynch) is to manage” a pretty blunt assessment of the fact that the team has tried to create a culture in which Lynch will thrive.
Moon also seems to give some validity to the idea that the call on the final play of the Super Bowl could factor into Lynch’s future with the team, indicating that it might create more trust issues between Lynch and the organization. Moon doesn’t appear to agree with Lynch’s assessment but seems to say that the team understands Lynch’s thinking on that topic.
The Seahawks are still waiting for word from Lynch on if he will play next season, with indications that the two sides have agreed on the basic framework of a contract if he does return. Until he does return, then some of the questions raised by Moon above will persist.