At least the Caps are a playoff contender every season. That’s more than I can say for my bottom of the barrel skins.

Now he’s abusing the facilities in attempts to get a new stadium in town? Get rid of that owner, and maybe the new one will get a stadium. Though with this state of squad, I doubt it.

Signed,
Real DC Fans.

Tagging Flynn would result in his earning way more than Rodgers next year. A trade would be uncertain with that level of salary attached.
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Exactly!! Tagging him is a real risk if you can’t get someone to bite.

outlawshark says:Jan 2, 2012 4:02 PM

Matt Flynn had 2 opportunities to start – both against playoff opponents – and played lights out. .. .he’s already better than a lot of starting QBs.
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He played against teams that weren’t preparing for him and didn’t have game tape. History is filled with QBs who played a couple of good games and failed once under the spotlight. You have no clue if he’s better than any starting QB at this point.

childressrulz says:Jan 2, 2012 4:51 PM

I think Flynn is a little better than Kolb. I really don’t care what you think. Someone will give up a first rounder for him.
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Kolb, Schaub & Cassell didn’t fetch a first round pick and they had more than a couple of games to go on. Most teams needing a QB are picking in the top half of the draft. No one is giving up that high of a pick for Flynn. Maybe a third round and another mid-rounder.

I thought past performance was a factor in the formula for compensation picks. If that’s the case GB won’t be receiving a 3rd rounder for Flynn either.

Go look at some pictures of the Heiman award; you’ll see Griffin is a couple of inches shorter than Luck. You can see hes’ taller than 6′ when he hugs the past award winners as well. Unless he has lifts in his shoes.

Luck played against “real competition”?? You obviously don’t watch Pac-12 football. The best teams Luck faced (USC & Oregon) are known as offensive teams with mediocre defenses at best. Baylor played some tough defenses in Texas & Oklahoma that Stanford never saw.

Tebow got the Broncos there with his unusual if not downright wacky collection of talent, confidence and passion, and Tim deserves the chance to see it through to the end.

Besides, what if you benched him and the Broncos lost that first game anyway? Can you imagine the questions and uproar? It would never end.

For better or worse, the Broncos got behind Tebow and he won enough games to get them into the next round. It makes no sense to change course now.

Besides, he might even “accidentally” win the Broncos a few playoff games if not the whole thing. Stranger things have happened.

Franchising Flynn is not in the cards. It’s not the way Ted Thompson thinks or works.

Flynn is not in the picture next year — he will not be a Packer.

The franchise tag will be used on a player who is in the picture — probably Jermichael Finley, maybe Scott Wells.
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I don’t think you know what you are talking about. Thompson does what is best for the Packers not the players. That is his job and he is brutally efficient at it. If they don’t want to trade for a QB that has been tagged I recommend getting something in the works under the table ASAP.

I don’t see anybody going crazy over Flynn like last year when people were going crazy over Kevin Kolb. The draft is too QB heavy to reach for a backup with less experience than Kolb.
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I think Flynn is a little better than Kolb. I really don’t care what you think. Someone will give up a first rounder for him.

PACKER FANS ARE SCARED, FLOODING NEW ORLEANS MESSAGE BOARDS, TRYING TO CONVINCE THE SAINTS FANS THAT WE HAVE NO CHANCE. I CAN SMELL THE FEAR FROM THEM, SMELLS LIKE CHEESE. THEY ARE PLEADING THEIR CASE FOR RODGERS MVP. HOW CAN YOU GIVE A PLAYER THE MVP, WHEN HIS BACKUP CAN COME IN AND PLAY BETTER THAN THE STARTER, DID MATT FLYNN NOT RE-WRITE THE PACKERS RECORD BOOKS YESTERDAY? I WILL HAVE TO ADD MIKE MCCARTHY TO MY X-MAS CARD LIST NEXT YEAR FOR MAKING THE DECISION TO PLAY FLYNN INSTEAD OF RODGERS YESTERDAY

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I can assure you Packer fans and the team are not scared of the Saints. And if I were a Saints fan, I’d be more concerned about the Lions and 49ers first.
Especially the 49ers. Take the Saints out of the dome, and they scare no one.

And if Brees wins the MVP, that will be ok too. Because I can assure you, Brees winning the MVP makes the probability of the Saints winning in Lambeau drop to about 0%. You don’t want to motivate Rodgers anymore than he already will be.

Got it, MR. CAPS LOCK?

Flynn is not in the picture next year — he will not be a Packer.

The franchise tag will be used on a player who is in the picture — probably Jermichael Finley, maybe Scott Wells.

The Packers have never played those sorts of games.

Tagging Flynn would result in his earning way more than Rodgers next year. A trade would be uncertain with that level of salary attached.

Team harmony and no drama are important.

Flynn did his job for the last four years — he is entitled to step away, move on, and make his own best deal.

(Hope it is not with the Bears or Vikes! — Miami or the ‘Skins would be good landing spots)

Aaron Rodgers’ great year should not be down graded because the Packers have a good back up QB (as opposed to the Colts and others). Aaron’s performance actually gave Mike McCarthy the luxury of being able to rest players for the playoffs. And Saints fans should be thanking their lucky stars that the Packers are interested in winning Super Bowls not breaking records. Had Rodgers played yesterday and in the two games he was pulled early, Drew Brees would be eating Aaron’s dust in the record books. Aaron is just entering his prime, his best games are still ahead of him. Scary, yes?

If we had Holmes last year, we win the SB, hands down.

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Why, did he play defense? Here it is almost a year later and Pittsburgh fans are still If`n.

Keep discounting the Texans. They did not get trounced by the Ravens, the game was close until late in the 4th quarter. And its not like Flacco has been a mile of consistency in the regular season or the playoffs.

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You did get trounced by the Ravens, they doubled you up 29-14 WITH your starting QB. Foster only had 49 yards rushing in that game. Also, Flacco is still more consistent than Yates, especially at home. But you should be alot more concerned with the Bengals bub.

“And rather than turn to wealthy investors who might insist on renaming the stadium, the team can turn to its fans and keep the stadium with a historic football name rather than the name of some idiotic company that thinks renaming a historic field would be good advertising.”

You do realize that your team is named after a meat-packing company, right?

Yes … I hope the Broncs play Quinn, too. Tebow doesn’t have the QB skills but he’s one tough guy and unpredictable. It would be easier to game-plan for Quinn.

“The reason the Packers, Saints, and Patriots give up so much yardage is that, quite often, their high-powered offenses have given them a big lead and the other teams take advantage of their prevent defenses.”

That’s not even true. Patriots have trailed for 3 straight weeks. They were down 13-7 versus Denver, 17-0 versus Miami, and 21-0 versus the Bills. Green Bay has been making a habit of struggling early, too. Detroit’s game was a quarterback shootout.

The same thing happened with Plexco Burris… just change the year !

Even if the Packers do put the Franchise tag on Matt Flynn and end up paying him $14.5 million dollars, $6.5 million more than Aaron Rodgers’ $8 million next season the Packers can just sell some more worthless stock to their stupid fans to pay for a $14.5 million backup QB.

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Actually, no, they can’t. This is why people who gripe about the Packers “printing money” don’t know what they are talking about.

According to both team and league rules, the Packers can only sell stock to make capital improvements (read: improve Lambeau Field) and they must have a specific project they are paying for, like the current seating expansion and renovation. They cannot apply the proceeds from a stock sale to personnel salaries, equipment, or like costs.

Wealthy owners can write their team a big check to cover personnel acquisitions if they want. Without an owner, the Packers don’t have that advantage (so they actually have to be, you know, financially sustainable on that front). And rather than turn to wealthy investors who might insist on renaming the stadium, the team can turn to its fans and keep the stadium with a historic football name rather than the name of some idiotic company that thinks renaming a historic field would be good advertising.

In their last 3 games the Pats’ have gotten behind, made defensive adjustments on the fly and then won the game. Yesterday they gave up 21 points in the 1st quarter and none for the next 3. Admittedly not a good habit to get into with the playoffs here but still – they showed they could do it. (Admittedly against inferior teams.)

Flynn started for the Pack last year against the Patriots and almost beat them.