How so?
As far as I can tell, none of these are true.
The Seahawks expressed interest in 2017 - they were the only team to publicly do so - and backed out. That’s coming from Pete Carroll himself. Anybody who signed with Seattle would know Russell Wilson was the QB and any spot would be a backup. And he told them he’d be comfortable as a backup himself. The Seahawks pitiful excuse for a reason was they thought he was too good and another team would make him a starter - the “logic” was they wanted to have an inferior backup QB rather than a superior QB they might lose in trade later that season. So, this one is totally false and there are the receipts to prove it.
Pay? You, much less anybody else, have no clue what his salary requests were or are. So, that’s speculation coming entirely from your nether regions. It could be true, but there’s no way of showing it. And, worse yet and again, Seattle was willing to sign him but thought he was “too good” :rolleyes:
As for “out of the sport too long”? That may be true now, but even so, as of a few months ago, there were several teams willing to take a look at him at that pitiful excuse for a “tryout” the league office tried to foist on him on a Saturday during the season, i.e. prime college scouting time. In Atlanta too, for some reason.
All these reasons were questionable bordering on ludicrous 3 years ago and partly disproven back then. With the benefit of hindsight, they’re like the 2020 Republican platform - just a copy/paste job from 2016 without a once over to avoid embarrassing gaffes.
Try harder next time.