I know a lot of people will jump to blame the o-line for Russ constantly being under duress but I feel like that’s a pretty myopic opinion. Russ has a tendency to run out of the pocket before it’s necessary and based on how o-linemen are taught to block (keep the pocket clean, push the rushers to the outside) this is causing him to run into pressure himself. There were a bunch of examples today of how Russ not stepping up into the pocket led to him getting intro trouble

As an example, this is the final play of the game. I watched the replay and this is what the pocket looks like initially: https://imgur.com/a/eJeBzXq

I tried drawing on there the pocket in red. If I saw this, what I would consider good quarterbacking is to make use of this space in the middle and take a step or two up. Instead, the very next thing he did in this play was spin out to the left, right into the defender

Just to torture myself, I watched the rest of the play. The pocket is still as clean as it was two seconds ago and Russ decides to throw up a desperation pass despite having no one remotely close to him: https://imgur.com/a/bsmyyA6

Ask any Seattle fan and they’ll say that this is exactly who Russ was there. He has the longest time to throw in the league and that’s indicative of a good line, not a bad line. And it was a little frustrating watching Stroud who knows how to step uo perfectly. This is why I think we need to look to replace him in the draft. He makes the same poor decisions but isn’t as athletic as he used to be and so he can’t be that same escape artist