Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson reached a pair of Super Bowls with the Seattle Seahawks, winning one of them (ironically, the win came against the Broncos).
Now with a new team, Wilson is aiming to return to — and win — a Super Bowl. Not just one, but multiple Super Bowls.
“My goal is to play 10 or 12 more years and hopefully win three or four more Super Bowls,” Wilson said in March. “That’s the plan. That’s the mindset. That’s why I came here, to hopefully be able to finish my career here, and to finish on top as a champion and do it multiple times. That’s my mindset.”
So what’s it take to get there?
Talent
“To be a championship team, you have to have talent,” Wilson said on July 27. “That’s the first thing. We have a lot of talent. Guys coming in and out — defensive line, offensive line, the tight ends, the receivers, and the defense. We’re so young, and that’s really exciting to be on that kind of level of team.”
Wilson is surrounded by talent on offense, with Courtland Sutton, Jerry Jeudy and Melvin Gordon among his top weapons.
On defense, Denver’s depth chart includes star defensive backs Justin Simmons and Pat Surtain, several Pro Bowl-caliber pass rushers, plus formidable defensive linemen D.J. Jones and Dre’Mont Jones.
Talent: ✔️
Smarts
“The second thing is you have to have knowledge of the game,” Wilson said. “Our knowledge of the game is so far along.”
Wilson then went on to note that receiver Jerry Jeudy has sat in on quarterback meetings at times just to listen and learn more about the offense.
“That’s a credit to him and his work ethic,” Wilson said. “When you have guys like that and your best players put that type of work in, that just rises everyone else to be better. It’s so great to see that and experience that.”
Football smarts: ✔️
Vision, Execution and Mindset
“The other thing is you have to have a vision … but you need to have execution as well,” Wilson said. “The balance of those two is really key to understand what it takes. Then, at the end of the day, your mindset has to be right. We have to have that mindset no matter what the circumstance are, no matter what the scoreboard is and no matter what people are writing — good or bad — because a lot of time you can be on the highest of highs.
“To balance that, remain neutral and not get too high, not get too low, but just keep working, keep putting your head down and keep going. That’s our mentality. We’re really doing that, we’re really learning that every day, we’re practicing that every day, we’re working at it every day and that’s the great thing about us.”
From everything we’ve seen from Wilson, it seems very same to assume he has the right mindset.
Vision, Execution and Mindset: ✔️
