Seahawks’ Ruskell rolls the dice

By Chris Cluff  |   Sunday, April 15, 2007  |  Comments( 1 )

 Seattle Seahawks
Tim Ruskell's stellar, stars-aligned first year as team president of the Seattle Seahawks was a little misleading. He made a lot of savvy, inexpensive moves, with few true gambles in 2005, and people got the idea he was a play-it-safe kind of guy. But over the past two offseasons, he has shown himself to be quite the gambler. He lost a very ...
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Larry Symms		 08:47 AM
04/16/2007
Your statements about Hutchinson, besides being patently untrue, piss me off. Minnesota STOLE Hutchinson from the Seahawks by using the transition tag against them. The tag was intended to help teams keep FAs. Ruskell couldn't keep Hutchinson without paying him the full $49 mil contract immediately because of a "poison pill" line in the Minnesota contract that would have been impossible to avoid. Unless Minnesota pays one of their linemen more than Hutchinson (not bloody likely), he will never see the majority of the bonuses. Seattle filed a grievance with the commissioner which was ingnored. Their method of protest was Nate Burleson's contract which included 2 "poison pill" trigger. The first was if he played more than 4 games in Minnesota in a year that he would be paid his full contract. The second was if he was paid more than all running backs on the team combined he would be paid his full contract. The second one was really poking fun at the Vikings and their "star" runningbacks. The ammount of Burleson's contract: $49 mil. Say goodbye to the transition tag.
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