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  1. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    Well, in hindsight, obviously he didn't want to be in Seattle, because he asked for that poison pill language to be in the contract. If you don't remember the reporting that the Special Master ruled the contract language to be valid because Hutch had asked for it to be part of the contract...
  2. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    There were sources all over the place at the time. Nothing I'm saying was deducted, it was all reported. If you want to do a deep dive, you are welcome to look for old articles from Seattle Times, Seattle P.I., Tacoma News Tribune, NFL.com, and probably ESPN and FOX Sports. Funny side story...
  3. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    The record of Hutch's lies, the poison pill clause, and the decision by the Special Master. That asymmetric language didn't just show up, it had to be crafted. Hutch originally claimed he didn't know about it. Some days later, he admitted to knowing about it. When the Special Master made his...
  4. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    If you're assigning blame for that fiasco, Ruskell is about 4th on the list behind Hutch, Hutch's agent, and the Vikings GM. There are other, better reasons for hating Ruskell IMO.
  5. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    Nobody begrudged Hutch the opportunity to better himself salary wise. What we hate(d) him for was the mechanism by which two teams wanted to offer him the same 7 year $49M dollar deal, but he only allowed one of those teams to actually offer him that deal. The other team was given additional...
  6. BlueTalon

    Do you believe this about Russell Wilson?

    And now they're both on the same team. If they split time this year, we might have to combine their stats for fun.
  7. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    Nice try, but this thread is about Hutch.
  8. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    Exactly!
  9. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    Most guys who get the franchise tag do NOT look at it as a privilege, or like the team is doing them a favor by franchising them. They look at it like the team doesn't want to do a long term deal and pay them like they want to be paid for years, plural. They didn't "promise" to franchise...
  10. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    Part of the reason the Seahawks did the Nate Burleson contract offer the way they did was that MN was trying to get us to part with a 2nd round pick, since , ya know, our 3rd round pick was so low. After abusing us with the Hutch thing, they had the gall to try that. So the Seahawks got...
  11. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    He wanted to stay in Seattle? He is the one who asked for the poison pill language to be in the contract! He's the one who made it prohibitive for Seattle to match MN's contract offer as written. Well, Hutch and the Special Master, both.
  12. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    Oh FFS dude, that transition tag allowed Hutch to receive TWO contract offers for 7 years $49M in the span of a week. Tell me again how insulting that is.
  13. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    I'm pretty sure that happened somewhere along the way. I'm thinking of things like keeping two punters while cutting Michael Bennett* in the preseason, Ruskell signing TJ Duckett and Holmgren never using him, things like that. *When I think of Ruskell doing a boneheaded move, this is what I...
  14. BlueTalon

    Dremont Jones switching to EDGE/OLB?

    How about we see what he does in a Macdaddy defense first.
  15. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    Bingo. The reason I hated Hutch for so long is that in one week he went from not knowing that the poison pill language was in the contract, to knowing the poison pill language was in the contract, to being the one who asked for that language to be there. That was the basis for the Special...
  16. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    GM screwed him over? By allowing him to negotiate the best deal for himself resulting in the then-highest contract ever to be paid to a guard?
  17. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    I remember at the time, SA said it was a "once in a lifetime offer." My response, then as now, was that it was actually a "twice in one week offer." Hutch just made sure the equal offers represented unequal risk to the teams making them.
  18. BlueTalon

    Steve Hutchinson?

    I felt exactly that same way for a very long time. I started letting go when I heard stuff about Holmgren playing favorites, and hints of a dysfunctional locker room. If Hutch thought it was a toxic environment, then I don't blame him for wanting to leave. That doesn't excuse the poison pill...
  19. BlueTalon

    Best draft in years

    Howell wasn't the one calling pass plays almost two thirds of the time. Washington led the league in passing percentage, by at least a couple of percentage points. The thing I don't find in your criticisms of Howell is any acknowledgement that coaching and management decisions played a...
  20. BlueTalon

    Best draft in years

    I just don't see the same lack of activity regarding QBs here that the pessimists do. (For lack of a better term, no insult intended.) The FO brought in Lock as part of the deal for Russ, and IIRC, they graded Lock as one of the better QBs to come out of his draft. Then this year, they traded...

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