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Brian · Mar 19, 2012

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I just would rather Flynn not have wound up on the same team as Pete Carroll. It interferes with my rooting against them in a wide variety of circumstances. I heard 8 digits of guaranteed money, though? Good for him.
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Flynn got 3 years for 26 million, 10 of which is guaranteed.

Just for some perspective -- Drew Brees when he signed with the Saints in 2006 after getting hurt in the last game of the year signed for 6 years and 60 million, but only 10 of that was guaranteed.

They got the same guaranteed money. Crazy how sports can work. I am excited for Flynn. Will make rooting against Harbaugh in the NFC West even more fun. I actually like Pete Carroll.

locoguano · Mar 19, 2012

Flynn has a two year tryout. If he does well, he will get a new contract before this one is up. If he doesn't do well, he will get cut after year two and its back to being a career backup except now with a little more change in his pocket.

Its good to be the Flynn.

ok awesome · Mar 19, 2012

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Sooooo, how will all this affect Flynn?
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he'll be buying a nice house.

lsuforever · Mar 20, 2012

More than a house. Always comes across as a smart mature dude. He will do well in his career and really does well coming off the bench. Lets see. LSU staring as a 5th year senior and the outcome was?? Starting the game last season for AR at GB and he broke the franchise record. There is a pattern here huh?

LSUDad · Mar 20, 2012

Matt to the Shehawks..........LaRon to the Cropdusters..........two teams I dislike.....

Tiger_fan · Mar 20, 2012

Matt Flynn signed with the Seattle Seahawks, in part, because he saw a young team that in his words, has “a chance to do something special.”

Flynn said the decision to come to Seattle came down to the comfort level he felt when he visited with Seahawks coaches and general manager John Schneider, who was a part of Green Bay's front office when the Packers drafted Flynn in the seventh round of the 2008 draft.

“When I came up to Seattle, I just felt very comfortable with everything,” Flynn said. “I felt like it was a family environment up there. After doing soul-searching, I felt excited about the opportunity up there and I just felt like it was the best fit for me. I felt like it was going to give me the best opportunity to be successful and I'm excited about it.”
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but he's not guaranteed the starter spot:

But despite being the marquee signing of this free agency period for the Seahawks, Flynn will have to battle for the right to be the starting quarterback leading the team to those special things. That's the message from Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, and it sits just fine with Flynn, who comes to Seattle after four years as a backup in Green Bay.

“We talked about it, he's big on competition, and I've been a firm believer in competition — I think it brings the best out in everybody — and that's what I'm looking forward to,” Flynn said on a conference call. “I can't wait to get it started and get it rolling.”

“I don't know that,” Carroll said when asked if Flynn will be the starter. “It was very clear how we delivered the message that we now have the opportunity to make this an open competition. Tarvaris is well ahead, he's the guy that's here working for us now. I told Tarvaris when I talked to him yesterday what were doing with Matt bringing him in here to compete for this job and it'll make everybody better and help our football team. That's really clearly where it is.” ... “I expect T-Jack to be better and I expect Matt to come in here guns blazing trying to take that job, so it'll be a great situation for us.”

And while Flynn obviously came here with the intention of winning the job — he could have also gone to Miami, where he would have been all but guaranteed the starter's role — he is fine with having to earn it. This is, after all, a guy who stuck it out at LSU, waiting until his fifth year to earn a starting job.

“I'm going to come in here and I'm going to be in a competition, and I know that whatever happens, whatever my role is, I just want to make the Seattle Seahawks a better football team, and that's something I look forward to doing.”
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Flynn: Seahawks could ‘do something special' | HeraldNet.com - Sports

LaSalleAve · Mar 20, 2012

Congrats to Matt Flynn, even though I really don't like the Seahawks, guess I have a reason to follow them now.

Tiger_fan · Mar 20, 2012

one big plus about the Seahawks is they have one of the most beautiful training facilities in the NFL, a 200,000 square foot facility (2nd largest in the NFL) on the shores of Lake Washington:

LSUDad · Mar 20, 2012

I do like it up there, made the trip when LSU played UW.........nice place to visit.

A quick flight....

An you can be in Victoria..

Tiger_fan · Mar 20, 2012

of course, Seattle is also a major port for cruise ships to Alaska