Hutchinson Questions Seahawks Brass

Steve Hutchinson questions the Seahawks about the management decisions surrounding his contract situation. Hutchinson said of the situation (as quoted by John Czarnecki), "I'll always keep my friendships with a lot of guys there, but I could never understand what their management was thinking. They told me after the 2004 season that they planned to get working on my contract and then never contacted Tom Condon until last summer. We told them then that I didn’t want to deal with any contract stuff during the season. It never got done, then, either."

He claims that he would have most likely stayed a Seahawk if the money was the same and thinks competition between Mike Reinfeldt (Seahawks Vice President of Football Administration) and Tom Condon (his agent) led to the eventually outcome. The two used to play against each other "in the old days" according to Hutchinson. His comments do not make a whole lot of sense, as Seattle was willing to match the relevant terms of the Vikings offer.

What would be a more likely explanation is that Hutchinson and Condon were unhappy with the Seahawks previous offers and used the poison pill approach to assure his exit from Seattle. The Seahawks appeared willing to match whatever Hutchinson would fetch from any other team, but that was not enough for him. Hutchinson was complicit in constructing a contract that made it impossible for Seattle to keep him. He has denied being familiar with the terms, which is a bunch of crap. If he signed a 7-year contract worth $49 million and did not know what he was signing, then that is even worse than if he did know about the poison pill terms.

AP Sports Writer Gregg Bell has been putting out a lot of good stuff from camp. He wrote an article on the intra-squad scrimmage providing some detail and quotes from players and coaches.

Jason Cole of Yahoo Sports also wrote a piece on Warren Moon's induction into the Hall of Fame today as the first black quarterback.