redhawk253
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i've seen people touch on this in several other threads and i don't want to hijack so im starting a new one.. when people are talking about trading/keeping flynn they keep hitting on a couple of things.. his value in trade and his cap hit in relation to having wilson as a 3rd round pick not making much.
personally i'd think keeping flynn is a good option when considering the likely trade value for him is going to be a 3rd at best or later unless we start blowing everyone out and he gets a quarter or two of play in the next couple games and is able to show off some. if we were offered a 2nd.. i'd jump on that in a heart beat.
however, i dont think keeping him beyond this season is viable.. yes we have russell wilson at a very low cap hit because he's a 3rd round rookie.. however we have to think beyond just the position of qb.. we could find a backup for wilson at a much cheaper price.. consider the avg salary for an nfl backup qb is about 1.6-2 mill per year.. however they are widely varying and thats probably a little higher than it should be due to situations like ours and the niners where there is/was a qb controversy and you end up with a backup making 5-8 million in a year.. flynn's contract calls for 5.25 million in 2013 and 6.25 million in 2014, over the course of the next two years that would be 11.5 million dollars.. wilson has shown no signs of being injury prone, our line is starting to play better around him and should improve in the offseason some more, he's taken some hits this year already and no signs of ill effect so i'd assume flynn will just rot away another season. now you have to consider the names on defense who will eventually want to be paid.. and its going to be cutting it very close to keep the guys we have.. i think we will end up losing atleast one or two names that most of us dont want to see go, browner is the guy i see being a casualty of not having enough to pay him.. he's almost 30.. hasn't had a big pay day yet in the nfl so he's going to be looking for his contract to get him set up for the rest of his life. anyways, to sum it up that 11.5 million dollars would go a lot further for our team in putting it towards a guy like sherman who we would be crazy to ever let go of.
personally i'd think keeping flynn is a good option when considering the likely trade value for him is going to be a 3rd at best or later unless we start blowing everyone out and he gets a quarter or two of play in the next couple games and is able to show off some. if we were offered a 2nd.. i'd jump on that in a heart beat.
however, i dont think keeping him beyond this season is viable.. yes we have russell wilson at a very low cap hit because he's a 3rd round rookie.. however we have to think beyond just the position of qb.. we could find a backup for wilson at a much cheaper price.. consider the avg salary for an nfl backup qb is about 1.6-2 mill per year.. however they are widely varying and thats probably a little higher than it should be due to situations like ours and the niners where there is/was a qb controversy and you end up with a backup making 5-8 million in a year.. flynn's contract calls for 5.25 million in 2013 and 6.25 million in 2014, over the course of the next two years that would be 11.5 million dollars.. wilson has shown no signs of being injury prone, our line is starting to play better around him and should improve in the offseason some more, he's taken some hits this year already and no signs of ill effect so i'd assume flynn will just rot away another season. now you have to consider the names on defense who will eventually want to be paid.. and its going to be cutting it very close to keep the guys we have.. i think we will end up losing atleast one or two names that most of us dont want to see go, browner is the guy i see being a casualty of not having enough to pay him.. he's almost 30.. hasn't had a big pay day yet in the nfl so he's going to be looking for his contract to get him set up for the rest of his life. anyways, to sum it up that 11.5 million dollars would go a lot further for our team in putting it towards a guy like sherman who we would be crazy to ever let go of.