Matt Flynn?

[MizzouHawkGal]

Hell of lot more money than I will ever see plus a hot girlfriend.. Dude just needs to find the escape hatch. TJ and David Carr have so it's very doable.

 

[Happy]

When the seahawks signed him last year I worked really hard at trying to believe in the guy. Bordering on wishful thinking.

Thank goodness rw tore it up in the kc game last preseason. That game may have changed the fortunes of the franchise.

If flynn was a stock investors would be filing suit for fraud. Pussitis is unforgivable in a nfl quarterback.

 

[pehawk]

Flynn Sucks.

8/10....I laughed

 

[SeaTown81]

When the seahawks signed him last year I worked really hard at trying to believe in the guy. Bordering on wishful thinking.

Thank goodness rw tore it up in the kc game last preseason. That game may have changed the fortunes of the franchise.

Wishful thinking was exactly right. Half to more of the fan base did the exact same thing. And it was led by the annoyingly ignorant triumvirate of Hugh Millen, Softy, & Hawkblogger. Those 3 really, really influenced a lot of the Flynncanity that many were infected with.

I've said it a million times. But we are so fortunate that RW got the KC start and seized the job the way he did. I never thought Flynn sucked or anything. But from the second we signed him, I was deathly afraid of him getting the job and being just good enough to keep it, but not good enough to ever take the team anywhere. Glad that didn't happen.

 

[theENGLISHseahawk]

And it was led by the annoyingly ignorant triumvirate of Hugh Millen, Softy, & Hawkblogger. Those 3 really, really influenced a lot of the Flynncanity that many were infected with.

And let's not forget how silly it got. The conspiracy theories about Flynn not getting a fair crack, the suggestion Wilson was a 'teachers pet' and talk of eating microphone's if he was to succeed (he did, and yet no microphone's have been eaten).

Wilson's brilliance has been all the more satisfying as a consequence.

 

[Throwdown]

Man that "teachers pet" comment has stuck with me for so long, I can't hear Millens voice without having that play back in my mind. He said that with so much disgust, and anger, it really tainted my view on that radio station. Only reason I kept listening was for NBA news, now I haven't turned them on since that went down the toilet.

 

[theENGLISHseahawk]

It amazes me to see people still quoting Hugh Millen when he speaks these days. His reputation should be in tatters, and I suspect it mostly is. His comments went beyond mere opinion and were laced with agenda. But the others name checked here (Softy, Hawkblogger) didn't cover themselves in glory either. Hawkblogger's recent piece on why Flynn didn't work out was a difficult read. One last great attempt to speculate on the reason it didn't work out for Flynn, as if anyone gives a flying f now that Russell Wilson has become the undisputed starter.

I hope the people of Seattle don't let these guys forget about their initial stance when the Seahawks are winning Super Bowls. Stay off the bandwagon, fella's. Perhaps KJR can get Jim Mora on for another rant about cheating, or Flynn can discuss how not being a 'rah rah' guy was also a problem in Oakland, too.

 

[Happy]

I hope the people of Seattle don't let these guys forget about their initial stance when the Seahawks are winning Super Bowls. Stay off the bandwagon, fella's.

Why keep score like that though? What purpose does it serve? Not being critical, I just don't relate the sentiment is all.

 

[Sarlacc83]

I hope the people of Seattle don't let these guys forget about their initial stance when the Seahawks are winning Super Bowls. Stay off the bandwagon, fella's.

Why keep score like that though? What purpose does it serve? Not being critical, I just don't relate the sentiment is all.

I suppose it has something to do with tossing out vitriol and then acting like it's anything but self-serving?

 

[pehawk]

Without signing Flynn, the Hawks may never get Wilson. They're adoration wouldve been blatantly telegraphed. So, I personally am thankful to those Flynnites.

 

[Happy]

I hope the people of Seattle don't let these guys forget about their initial stance when the Seahawks are winning Super Bowls. Stay off the bandwagon, fella's.

Why keep score like that though? What purpose does it serve? Not being critical, I just don't relate the sentiment is all.

I suppose it has something to do with tossing out vitriol and then acting like it's anything but self-serving?

"Don't confront me with my failures; I have not forgotten them."

Yea, I like Jackson Browne.

Ok, back on topic.

 

[theENGLISHseahawk]

I hope the people of Seattle don't let these guys forget about their initial stance when the Seahawks are winning Super Bowls. Stay off the bandwagon, fella's.

Why keep score like that though? What purpose does it serve? Not being critical, I just don't relate the sentiment is all.

The talk was so venomous. If it was just, "I genuinely prefer Flynn" then fair enough. But it became akin to a political campaign. They had an agenda and a narrative that was so outwardly negative and forced, and yet it was all so needless.

Maybe I'm just bitter, but it's left a permanent sour taste. And part of me wonders whether they were angling for this regime to fail for reasons that are fairly obvious.

 

[Throwdown]

Without signing Flynn, the Hawks may never get Wilson. They're adoration wouldve been blatantly telegraphed. So, I personally am thankful to those Flynnites.

I think we were getting Wilson regardless, Schneider was in love with the guy, like literally IN LOVE.

 

[pehawk]

Without signing Flynn, the Hawks may never get Wilson. They're adoration wouldve been blatantly telegraphed. So, I personally am thankful to those Flynnites.

I think we were getting Wilson regardless, Schneider was in love with the guy, like literally IN LOVE.

Yeah, but heading into that draft NO ONE thought we'd select a QB. Even other teams we're clueless on the Hawks drafting a QB. So, without Flynn, the Hawks are going to be known to be "in the hunt" for a QB.

Yeah, Wilson was snagged in round 3, but that could be only because teams that valued him never thought Seattle coveted him. The Eagles we're said to like him, and maybe they figured "well, Browns, Skins, Fins and Colts all have their QB's...we can wait until round 3 or 4 for Wilson...there's no one that needs a QB before then".

There's a lot to that.

 

[SeaTown81]

I hope the people of Seattle don't let these guys forget about their initial stance when the Seahawks are winning Super Bowls. Stay off the bandwagon, fella's.

Why keep score like that though? What purpose does it serve? Not being critical, I just don't relate the sentiment is all.

I don't exactly think we need to rub it in their faces or anything. But I am not above holding pompous, full of it individuals to their pompous, full of it opinions.

I give Softy a pass. He's just a crazy homer who wanted to get excited and hopeful about the next Hawks qb and who fell hook, line, and sinker for what Millen was feeding him. He jumps out on a ledge on a million topics every year. He's wrong much of the time. He'll tell you as much.

Hugh Millen, I do not give a pass at all. The guy is ridiculously overrated. The only thing he is good at is being able to dissect a play and talk over fans heads about it. Other than that, he's worthless, IMO. He's a classic case of former athlete who thinks he was better than he really was. (RW accomplished more in 1 season than Millen did his entire career.) And who uses his job as an analyst to try and further that agenda/resentment. I'll never forget when he called Deion Branch a worthless, flea-bitten dog, and was subsequently called out by the entire Hawks wr corps. His teachers pet comment was just icing on the cake. Dude ruins KJR for me. I almost never listen anymore.

And Hawkblogger is nothing but a pompous egomaniac who is overrated due to being friends with Softy. Davis Hsu, FTW.

 

[rjdriver]

I can think of three people hoping Flynn is able to pull out some wins.

1. Peyton Manning
2. Alex Smith
3. Philip Rivers

Clowney would look mean as hell in silver and black

 

[pinksheets]

I can't stand listening to Millen, he is always reaching for something to think is dumb/crazy that our team is doing so he can act like the old wise man.

There were a handful of people who were right about Flynn, and they were the same people who didn't want to sign him in the first place.

 

[volsunghawk]

It's fun checking out Raiders forums now. It's like our forums a year ago, but with more misspellings and brain damage, in 3rd grade vocab.

 

[SalishHawkFan]

Wanna play a fun game? Go to the comments of this Raider game thread and do search for the term "Flynn" and cycle though the comments. YIKES!

http://www.silverandblackpride.com/2013 ... pen-thread

And no, I don't think Flynn is terrible. He'd be a fine back up for a team with a good offense. But he's not a great starter capable of bringing up the play of the players around him. He's average to ok. And that's only if you got good players around him and an offense that allows him to play his safe, short timing route game. That's why I wasn't thrilled with the prospect of him being our guy. And why the second I saw what RW was capable, I had seen enough.

So relieved things worked out the way they did for us. The KC preseason game last year may have drastically altered the course of this franchise.

And if you follow that thread through you find that no sooner does Pryor come in than the comments are just as ugly towards him as they are towards Flynn. I think one comment summed it up for the fans on that thread:

"We have no quarterback."

I think the reality is that the Raiders are so bad they make ANY QB look like crap. Carroll did to Flynn what Holmgren did to Kitna, only Kitna actually turned that Bengals team around.

 

[pehawk]

Flynn = Kitna? Really? Kitna won the job when given the chance. Has Flynn done that anywhere, yet?

That's a reach, hermano.