Where will Matt Flynn, Mike Vick and Alex Smith be STARTING next year?

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hahahahahahaha, if there was ever a desperation extension it was this. 'look fans, franchise QB on deck'

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i think alex smith will be in minnesota

idk about vick, i dont think i would sign him due to his injuries
 
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Flynn to the Chiefs.. Vick to the Vikings or Cardinals (where ever Reid ends up). Alex Smith with the Jets or Buffalo.
 
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minny is prolly the only place where alex smith can be alright...every other place hed prolly be benched or killed by the end of season.
 
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Danny O’Neil of the Seattle Times has mentioned on Twitter that Clayton, appearing with O’Neil on ESPN 710 in Seattle, said that Clayton expects the Eagles to release quarterback Mike Vick on Wednesday, a day before $3 million of Vick’s $15.5 million base salary becomes fully guaranteed.

It was surprising, since it goes against multiple reports that the Eagles aren’t concerned about the $3 million guarantee. If he’s ultimately cut the Eagles will get a dollar-for-dollar credit based on what Vick earns elsewhere.

And I’ve reconfirmed via a source with direct knowledge of the situation that Vick won’t be released before the Thursday deadline, and that the Eagles aren’t concerned about the vesting of the $3 million guarantee.
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Last year, both Alex Smith and Matt Flynn hit the open market as unrestricted free agents. Last year, both Smith and Flynn accepted offers not as valuable as they had expected to receive.

Last year, both entered training camp as the presumptive starting quarterbacks in San Francisco and Seattle. And while Flynn lost the job to Russell Wilson during training camp, Smith eventually joined Flynn as overpriced clipboard holders after Smith suffered a head injury and Colin Kaepernick left everyone else shaking theirs on a Monday night in November.

Now, both Smith and Flynn are clear-cut backups. Now, both are scheduled to make dramatically more in 2013 than Kaepernick and Wilson. Now, their respective teams are considering all options.

The options are simple. Keep the higher-paid backups at their current salaries. Keep them at lower rates of pay. Trade them. Or cut them.

Last week, 49ers CEO Jed York told PFT that he’d like to keep Kaepernick and Smith. Seahawks owner Paul Allen can definitely afford to do the same. And with mobile starters, it makes sense to have competent replacements.

The real questions are whether the lower-paid starters (Kaepernick has at least one more season in that category, and Wilson has at least two) will resent the notion that the guys who aren’t playing are earning millions more to do nothing, and likewise whether the guys earning millions more to do nothing would prefer to be doing more.

In both cases, the outcome could indeed turn on whether trades can be negotiated. But given that the market for both players was lukewarm a year ago, it’s hard to imagine a land rush breaking out for Smith or Flynn. Which means that, in the end, the 49ers and the Seahawks will have to decide whether to keep Smith and Flynn, respectively, at a high rate or pay and, possibly, a low willingness to stay.

And chances are that, if one or both teams part ways with their million-dollar understudies, they’ll eventually wish at some point that they still had them around.
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