{"id":3268,"date":"2013-04-01T11:17:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2013-04-01T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:18:09","slug":"raiders-acquire-qb-matt-flynn-from-seahawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/04\/01\/raiders-acquire-qb-matt-flynn-from-seahawks\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders acquire QB Matt Flynn from Seahawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/mattflynn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1599\" alt=\"mattflynn\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/mattflynn.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/mattflynn.jpg 650w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/mattflynn-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/mattflynn-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Seahawks have traded quarterback Matt Flynn to the Oakland Raiders for two undisclosed draft picks. The Raiders will give up late-round picks in 2014 and 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JayGlazer\/status\/318738337773006848\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to Jay Glazer of FOX Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland is also in the process of working out a deal with Arizona which will send Carson Palmer to the Cardinals in exchange for a late round pick.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn was signed by the Seahawks last year as a free agent but never started for the team after they drafted Russel Wilson. With Wilson firmly entrenched as the quarterback of the Seahawks the team found Flynn expendable.<\/p>\n<p>The price tag for Flynn is half of what the Raiders would have paid Palmer but his career has been defined by a late season game in 2011 against a Lions team which was on cruise control heading to the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Seahawks have traded quarterback Matt Flynn to the Oakland Raiders for two undisclosed draft picks. The Raiders will give up late-round picks in 2014 and 2015 according to Jay Glazer of FOX Sports. Oakland is also in the process of working out a deal with Arizona which will send Carson Palmer to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[240,189,158],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-3268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-matt-flynn","9":"tag-oakland-raiders","10":"tag-seattle-seahawks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}