SEA C/ATT YDS AVG TD INT SACKS
Flynn 11/13 102 7.8 1 0 0-0
Wilson 5/11 72 6.5 0 0 0-0

This is the guy that holds the Packers records for most yards in a game and most TDs in a game.

Pete Carroll is giggling himself to sleep over this “problem”.

Wait, He hasnt played a single down of meanigful football yet?

You people slay me with your assumption that Wilson will be the best QB in the world this year and forever….lol

Here is the reality. Wilson hasnt proven anything yet. He has yet to take a snap in a regular season game. Is he a decent QB? It appears so, but why everyone wants to start chiseling his bust for Canton enshrinement after one starting effort.. well, that is a little ahead of the game.

Because of everybody else ranting about it, I started questioning it myself.

Then I saw Wilson play. I watched as many other games as OTA allowed this preseason, and in all three Seattle games Wilson was easily the most electrifying QB I saw each week. The only other QB who truly impressed me was Peyton, but he wasn’t electrifying…he was just Peyton (which, of course, is not a bad thing).

Maybe Seattle just got mostly lousy games for broadcast, and there are QBs in other games that I can’t watch who are lighting it up…but I’m not hearing about them as much as I’m hearing about Wilson, either.

I don’t question the ‘hawks talent assessment at all now. I think the kid rocks, and a competent backup is there if they need him.

1 – When they signed Flynn, they had no idea they were going to get Wilson in the draft.

2 – Having signed Flynn, they had no need to over draft like the Browns or Dolphins did.

3 – If the Hawks had not signed Flynn, teams would have known they were looking at Wilson, and may have traded up to get him instead of letting him fall to the Hawks like they did.

4 – Regardless of the money spent, it all has to fit under the same salary cap, meaning the owner (Billionaire) would be spending that money one way or the other. AND if Wilson gets hurt, they still have Flynn to play.

Great move Seattle!

To compound that, from the jump, Pete Carroll said that there was going to be open comp for the starting job. What team signs a supposed Franchise QB and makes that proclimation? The Cards didn’t even make a statement like that about Kevin “corn on a”Kolb.

Following the Cassel, Kolb model fails once again. The sample on Flynn was simply too small. True, they needed to upgrade, but Flynn was not the guy. When your most recent OC passes on you, when he takes his first HC job – that’s a sign.

Now due to embarrassment, he’s hurt? The money was paid, the problem now is if this guy can play.(even as a backup)

Flynn has proven to be good off of the bench and if he comes out and wins the starting job, great. You have two seemingly competent quarterbacks on your roster and people are finding a way to make that a bad thing?

Not to mention, if Wilson continues to play like a stud and he becomes the long-term QB in Seattle, by the time his rookie contract is up, Flynn’s contract will be too, so you can make a more educated contract decision then… When it might actually matter which QB is getting paid.

They didn’t draft Wilson until late April, so there was no way of knowing:

a.) He’d be THIS good, this fast or,

b.) He’d have still been available when the Seahawks picked him at #75 overall.

c.) Plus, he could have gone to any number of other teams in the picks before Seattle took him at #75.

Had they known Wilson would be such a Preseason Stud, there is no way they would of went out and signed Flynn to this contract. What I really want to know is how Flynn feels about it. He left Green Bay to be a starter, turned down Miami (where he most certainly would of started) and now he is backing up a ROOKIE. That has to sting a tad. Then again, if I had his contract, I’d gladly sit down, shut up and hold the clipboard.

If they had a crystal ball and knew they would get RW then they might have done things differently, however they now have two competent QB’s both with potential which is more than alot of other teams have.

Once again, Flynn isn’t breaking the bank. All three of the Hawks QB’s wont make what AZ will pay Kolb this year.

Seattle knew they had to upgrade the QB position. They made a pitch to Manning (or tried to, anyway), the signed Flynn to a pretty fair market-value contract, who was the best FA after Manning. Then, in the draft, they take another QB, which makes sense, because Jackson was only under contract for one more year.

If they had pulled an Arizona Cardinals and given up a player, a pick, and $60 million, then I could understand criticizing the move. But they’re only paying Flynn about 1/3rd that much.

Signing Tavaris last year was “checking the bet” at QB, and waiting until the moment was right to throw some chips in the pot. That moment came this past summer.

Whitehurst and Jackson out, Flynn and Wilson in, for about the same amount of money. That’s a freaking awesome job by a front office.

Who cares. Paul Allen has 13 BILLION dollars.

I’ve watched every down of each of Seattle’s preseason games, and to be sure, Matt Flynn did not and does not suck. But Wilson has outplayed him.