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You’d be surprised actually… and since you have D.Bevell I’de actually expect exactly that to happen.

The Bad News: He totally sucked within that offense and it’s not likely to get any better up in Seattle.

Let’s look at the alternatives the Seahawks had available:

1) Keep Hasselbeck, pay him the $7 million a year he was asking for, and have him for another two years at most. The guy is going to be 36 years old. He may have been the best available option for this season, but is he the future? In a word, no.

2) Trade a bunch of valuable draft picks for Kevin Kolb…who has a career passer rating barely better than Tavaris Jackson. Maybe Kolb develops into something, but for a rebuilding team, is he worth the risk of giving up multiple high picks?

3) The rest of the free-agent market. Yeah, right. About the only one I could see that was worth a damn is Kyle Orton. Oh, man, the Cards cut Derek Anderson, what a lost opportunity that was.

Re-signing Hass would mean commiting to a 36 year old as the #1 QB and never seeing what Whitehurst can do. Seattle needs bodies to put in at QB for a year or two, and Jackson and Leinart are what’s available. They’re both young and have room to improve.

These moves give Seattle money to pursue other players, allows them to retain draft picks, and sets up a fairly robust competition at QB, given the circumstances. The best move for this season? Probably not. The best move for the long-term success of the franchise? If you think otherwise, argue against it.

Seattle just got a placeholder familiar with Bevell whose role will be to challenge Whitehurst to step up his game and have one last chance to show something if he can win the QB competition. He’s not going to be expected to be a savior of the team or even win a starting job.

This is more of Carroll adding competition at the QB level without having to give up much in a weak FA class at the position. He’ll focus more on building the rest of the team and then hope to grab one of the top QBs in next year’s draft.

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What game did this happen at?

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His first preseason start. I don’t believe Favre had made his usual decision yet, as he was in his annual “throwin’ to high schoolers” mode.

Vikings first series was a run, and then two incompletions. They booed T-Jack as the offense left the field. I remember Barreiro on KFAN the next day, questioning if this is truly how pathetic the Viking fanbase had gotten.

I found this to be believable but of course it isn’t true. T-Jack had a few pretty good games and kind of got screwed by Chilly and his quick hook. He has a chance to be okay with a fresh start, as long as he has a new offensive coordin…

Wait until the Seahawk fans see his patented jump pass! Boy are they going to be impressed.

As a true fan I AM looking forward to this. I have been watching Matty H continually try his “lying flat on my back with 3 defensive lineman in my face” forward pass for years. Should offer really nice contrast!

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What game did this happen at?

Good Move, for 2012… and we could get him at 1/2 the price of the Rams #1 QB.

js

Nooooooo…. TJ will be Seattle’s Best average QB

Now, having said that, what his future holds, I can’t say.

All I know is this.. when was the last time Minnesota actually developed a QB?

Chilly was supposed to do that with this kid, but proved, ultimately, that he was more talk than substance, and really little more than Andy Reid’s clipboard holder in Philly.

But even before Chilly came to town, when was the last time the Vikings drafted and developed a QB? You could make a (albeit weak) argument for Culpepper. But that’s been a while.

One could make the argument that the Vikings are the Midwest’s version of the Redskins. Buying talent more than developing it.

Seriously, is this what we can expect from free agency? Ugh!

duece5 says:

He goaway: You get welcomed when you WIN. Tarvaris had MANY chances to play for the Vikes, and he was mediocre AT BEST. His record was 10-10 as a starter. When Favre went down and Tavaris had a shot against Detroit, Tarvaris was gawdawful!! I really tried to get behind Tarvaris, but for every nice ball he threw, the next play he looked like a deer in the headlights. My gut and eyes say he is a perenial back-up at best in the NFL. I wish him luck….he’ll need it.