Kyle Brandt is demanding answers after Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson spent hours doing high-knees on the team’s plane during a flight to London for their game on Sunday.
During the latest installment of his “Kyle Brandt’s Basement” podcast, the NFL host went a long rant about Wilson’s “weird and awkward” workout while thousands of miles in the sky.
“If I’m on that team I’m trying to put myself in [his teammate’s] shoes… I’m flying across the Atlantic and I’m all tucked. I got my headphones, I got my sleep mask, and I got my blanket and I’m getting my rest and I just keep hearing… somebody running on a plane is concerning usually,” Brandt said.
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“If I sit up and I just peel back my sleep mask and pull off one ear of my headphone and the thing that woken me and alarmed me is Russ, not running up and down the aisle, he’s high-kneeing up and down the aisle… I don’t know what I’m thinking.
“Are you thinking, A, that is my quarterback and he wants to get back with us so badly and fix this thing and right this ship and man I’ll go to battle with that guy — or are you thinking like, ‘dude sit down, we’re trying to sleep. Are you out of your mind? Sit down.’”
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Brandt continued his diatribe by pondering whether Wilson “motivational phrases” during the workout.
“Let’s be honest, let’s go further with this. You and I both know that if Russ is up on the plane, 30,000 feet and he’s doing high-knees up and down the aisle, it’s not just that,” Brandt said. “He is saying something, he is doing either motivational phrases or song lyrics, maybe, but there is a vocal component to it.
“If it’s truly performative. I wasn’t on the plane and I don’t know his exact medical status. Maybe the team doctor said, ‘Russ we need to get you moving around the plane. I know it’s weird and awkward and I know your teammates are trying to sleep but I really recommend you do it,’ then fine. God bless you Russ and I mean that,.”
“But I doubt that the offensive coordinator last year when he was at Seattle told him, ‘Russ I really recommend you go out there on the field by yourself and be in a make believe huddle and run a fake two-minute drill while the cameras are on, I really think you should do that.”
Brandt then asked that “somebody leak something” to provide more context into Wilson’s workout.
“We need answers,” Brandt said. “Other Broncos players will be asked about this. I need some truth. Somebody leak something because if he was doing something to get better, fine. Unless he was told specifically by the doctor or trainer, you must run around and not only run down the aisles, do the bleeping high-knees. I mean, were there jumping jacks? Is he burpee-ing? Is he doing lotus pose in the laboratory?”
