Flynn trade: Seattle receives Oak's 5th-round pick in 2014. The 2015 conditional pick (also 5th rd) is voided b/c Flynn not on '15 roster.
At least they basically came up even on the draft pick loss since they got a 6th for Palmer, their only real cost is whatever they paid Flynn this year and whatever cap hit his release is.
16. "I'm convinced Petrino is made of magic on offense" In response to Reply # 13
Say what you want about the guys personal life, but any team he touches instantly becomes twice as good on offense and their QBs end up getting drafted 3 rounds too early.
15. "He also allowed Greg Knapp to get hired" In response to Reply # 9
Basically losing a year of development time by hiring one of the most rigid offensive minds in all of football to run a system that completely did not suit the personnel of his team (an offense that was actually pretty good under Hue Jack, mind you).
I think Reggie has some good processes but is a bit rigid in his thinking. I like that he doesn't want to waste precious cap space on bad contracts and would rather eat it for a year to get real flexibility. I like that he values draft picks and tries to stockpile as many as he can. The guys he's targeted for resigning (Jano, Veldheer, Houston, Reece) are all worth resigning. I like that he'll cut his losses when he's made a mistake (Flynn). However I think he's been a bit rigid in the way he wants to play football. He wanted to run a West Coast, Packers style system so he hired a WCO OC (Knapp) and went after a pocket passing QB the year later (Flynn) even though that doesn't really fit existing personnel. He hasn't exactly hit on any of his draft picks yet, all will be forgiven if Hayden or Watson (if he ever plays) turn into a star, but up til now none of his picks have wowed me.
If this year keeps playing out like this, Reggie and Allen definitely deserve at least another year. But at some point Reggie has to acquire some difference makers, the only potential one so far is Pryor and he was inherited with the team.
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