What do the Hawks do with this guy?

[wiff]

Anyone know who this guy is?



Honestly if he was right in front of me at the super market I'm positive I wouldn't know who the guy is.

That said the Hawks are paying him 13mil over the next two years. Should they trade him, or keep him in the role he's currently in?

[Sweezo]

Trade him. The cap room can be used in a more efficient fashion. If given the choice of either Flynn at backup QB or adding a pass rushing DT in free agency, I'd prefer the latter. I think there's a decent amount of young QB's available in the middle of the draft that, although not as talented as Wilson, would fit the mold for what our offense wants out of a QB. Young QBs not taken in the first round have such cap friendly numbers that I think it's preferable to gamble on the upside instead of paying for a questionable vet.

[wiff]

Trade him. The cap room can be used in a more efficient fashion. If given the choice of either Flynn at backup QB or adding a pass rushing DT in free agency, I'd prefer the latter. I think there's a decent amount of young QB's available in the middle of the draft that, although not as talented as Wilson, would fit the mold for what our offense wants out of a QB. Young QBs not taken in the first round have such cap friendly numbers that I think it's preferable to gamble on the upside instead of paying for a questionable vet.

So who do you trade him for?

Personally I really think they need someone to replace Clemons. I think him blowing out his ACL in the Washington game (due to their ghetto junior high school quality football field) played a huge part in the Hawks losing in Atlanta, because they couldn't put pressure on Ryan.

And how is it that the NFL is ok with Washington's field conditions? They should get fined for that mess. That field is a freakin joke.

[Sweezo]

So who do you trade him for?

Not a whole lot. If the team can use a mid-round pick on a backup QB candidate, then I'm all for moving Flynn for a pick just for the cap benefits. Cutting him would be thoroughly pointless, but a trade would be a way to shift assets around. We need to add to the pass rush, and money ticketed to Flynn could be used to do that. And we need to manage the roster in a way that retains flexibility when E. Thomas, R. Wilson, and R. Sherman are up for extensions.

[Danny Darko]

i think of nfl trades as being pretty low yield most of the time. Unless it was a fair pick (never seems to happen) or a quality player at a position of need, I'd just keep him. Our cap is still really nice otherwise I'd say make room.

[Sweezo]

The court of public opinion seems to be leaning towards releasing Flynn to save cap room. This makes no sense to me...if he's released we save a little over $1 million in cap room doesn't accomplish much. If you trade him you avoid that dead money cap hit.

[nuke the whales]

KC just spent a 2nd plus a 2014 conditional pick for Alex Smith. Obviously Flynn is no Alex Smith, but with between the weak QB draft and the weak QB free agent market you'd think somebody will be willing to trade us a 3rd or a 4th for him.

[wiff]

So when I was Christmas shopping this past season I saw a bunch of Seahawks jerseys at Kohl's or maybe Sears when I was walking around and I didn't recognize the number had to look on the back to see what it said......"Flynn".

Needless to say they had a lot of them.

[Sweezo]

KC just spent a 2nd plus a 2014 conditional pick for Alex Smith. Obviously Flynn is no Alex Smith, but with between the weak QB draft and the weak QB free agent market you'd think somebody will be willing to trade us a 3rd or a 4th for him.

Now that the trade with the Raiders has been finalized it appears we got a 5th rounder in 2014 and a conditional pick in 2015. Not great, but it clears a little cap room this year and a lot of cap room next year.

[nuke the whales]

The question now becomes who will our backup QB be. Speculation is that it will be someone who can run a read option. Tyler Thigpen has been mentioned. A few names in the draft have also been mentioned. There's also a guy I haven't seen mentioned who runs well and should be available. He plays for the Jets. *Shudder*

[Sweezo]

The question now becomes who will our backup QB be. Speculation is that it will be someone who can run a read option. Tyler Thigpen has been mentioned. A few names in the draft have also been mentioned. There's also a guy I haven't seen mentioned who runs well and should be available. He plays for the Jets. *Shudder*

I'm fine with Thigpen. He won't set the world on fire but he can run the sort of offense I think the Seahawks will focus on next year.

I cannot see them taking Tebow. Too much baggage. I think Pete will look at anyone if the circumstances are right [see: T.O. as a camp invite] but the narrative would be all about Tebow and I don't think Pete would go for that distraction. At least I hope not.

[nuke the whales]

On the other hand, if there's one place where Tebow could go that most of the media wouldn't follow, it's Seattle.

[Sweezo]

On the other hand, if there's one place where Tebow could go that most of the media wouldn't follow, it's Seattle.

Ahhh...but the media did start to pay attention to us late in the season thanks to Russell Wilson and Richard Sherman. Adding Tebow would be the tipping point.

I wonder how well the locker room would react to adding Tebow? A focal point personality like Percy Harvin is one thing as he's an upper echelon talent. But Tebow? Wouldn't his teammates find it grating when they're working their butts off every day and they see him off on the sidelines giving interviews?

[TTown]

the homer in me would have said dennis dixon, had philly not picked him up for peanuts.