'Low balling' Matt Flynn is smart. There are two good QB prospects in the draft we will have a shot at, and now Alex Smith looks likely to really jump into the free agent pool. We have a lot of options. It would be stupid to go all in on Matt Flynn when our team has other needs to be addressed. I don't know what the numbers being discussed are, but based on what the 49ers offered Alex Smith my gut is that we've already brought Matt Flynn's price down below the 5 million per season range. That's peanuts for a starting QB and it gives us a shot to go after guys like Mark Anderson, too.
Flynn, Tannehill, Weeden, I would be happy to see Miami pick up any of these guys, retaining Matt Moore as the fall back plan. My guess is that our front office feels the same way, and would rather draft one of the two coming out of college than break the bank on Flynn.
Much as we made out like bandits by signing Matt Moore to a dirt cheap contract last offseason (instead of trading and going hot and heavy after Kyle Orton), I think we will make out like bandits again. We are not going to get Luck or RG3 or Peyton Manning, so what else is there? You want them to rush in and overpay someone?
Many valid criticisms can be leveled at Jeff Ireland, but one of the things I do like about his approach is that he is very patient. I think that a lot of the disastrous free agent signings we had early on after the Tuna took over were Parcells moves. Grove, Smiley, etc. Ireland has clearly learned from those mistakes. That said, he has to get it right. And the clock is ticking.