Packers Elect Not to Franchise Tag Free Agent QB Matt Flynn

Packers quarterback Matt Flynn will be free to sign with whichever team he so chooses this spring after the NFL’s franchise tag deadline passed Monday without GM Ted Thompson slapping the $14.4 million tender on the 27-year-old backup. Instead of taking the risk of tagging Flynn and then trading him to a quarterback-needy team, the […]

Green Bay Packers: Risk in Franchise Tagging QB Matt Flynn?

Now that the Green Bay Packers have re-signed tight end Jermichael Finley to a two-year, $15 million deal Wednesday, the focus has shifted from what could have been a messy franchise-tag dispute on Finley to whether or not the Packers will tag-and-trade free agent quarterback Matt Flynn. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel beat writer Tom Silverstein thinks […]