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While the possibility still can’t be entirely ruled out, it’s looking more and more like the Packers will not use their franchise tag on Flynn and will allow the unrestricted free agent to depart for a starting opportunity elsewhere.
Reported by ESPNMilwuakee.com
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After the Packers and TE Jermichael Finley
agreed to a two-year, $15 million deal on Wednesday night, it gave the team the opportunity to use the franchise tag on Flynn, who figures to draw interest from the Dolphins, Browns, Tagging Flynn would carry a one-year, $14.5 million guaranteed salary, and the Packers would have to clear enough salary-cap space to accommodate that contract. Such a deal also would pay Flynn over $6 million more than the $8 million base salary starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the reigning NFL MVP, is set to make in 2012. According to ESPNMilwaukee's Jason Wilde, if Flynn signed the tender and the Packers were unable to trade him, Rodgers would likely go to the team and ask for his contract to be reworked immediately. In addition, tagging Flynn would violate the spirit of the franchise tag. Tagging a player with the sole intention of trading him, while not technically against league rules, is frowned upon. “(The Packers) don’t do business that way,” one NFL source told Wilde at the Scouting Combine. ... The argument makes sense -- if you assume GM Ted Thompson doesn't find a trade partner before tagging Flynn (which is within the realm of possibility). Stay tuned.
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