Comments on Seahawks Cut Shaun Alexander

so what the hell, are we just eating his salary? i know we have 12 million left under the cap and all, but...

sounds like they may as well eat it.

ESPN:

Alexander, who is signed through the 2010, is scheduled to make $4.475 million this season. The Seahawks have two possible ways of releasing him. They could simply terminate his contract. If they do that, they would have a cap loss of $125,000.

Seattle could also release him under a June 2 designation in which they would put save the $4.475 million salary on the 2008 cap and then be responsible for $4.6 million on their 2009 cap. With more than $12 million of cap room remaining, the Seahawks may just simply give him his outright release and take the cap hits this season.
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nice knowing ya, shaun. it was fun while it lasted (that is, until 2005).

Shaun's broken my heart the last two seasons. He was trully beautiful to watch in 2005. He was poetry in motion. He deserved that MVP. Then he turned to crap. Now I just need to find out who's gonna run that ball for my Seagulls. Hasselbeck can throw, and we can catch sometimes... but we need some ground game.

this could be a dumb question, by why don't we trade him for a tight end? someone is going to want him--some team that is barely at .500 and is willing to shell out big bucks for him. why let him go for basically free, when we could get something for him?

When's that picture from? The Seahawks haven't played the Bills in over three years.

It wasn't all him- it was the o-line. I agree that he should have been traded to someone else. Reminds me of some other team from here letting go of marquee players for nuthin in return.

@ some dude - Trading Shaun would accelerate the remaining $6.9 million of his signing bonus onto this year's salary cap. The team would prefer to split that cap hit between 2008 and 2009 ($2.3M in '08 ;$4.6M in '09), which is why he'll likely be designated as a post-June 1st cut.

Besides, there really aren't any teams out there who need a 30-year old RB coming off two injury-plagued years and have a tight end worth trading for.

@ DOUG. - That picture was from 2004.

you can cut players in the NFL - the entire contract isn't guaranteed. if only the NBA were the same.

had to be done - you don't sign junius jones to watch shawn alexander lose 2 yards on 3rd & 1.

I have some good memories and some hazy, partial memories of Shaun's prime years to look back on with due respect.

Good luck to him. Alexander was too esceeeerd last year to be doing what he was supposed to be doing out there. He needs a rest.

About time! Clearly, a pansy and a non gladiator, and one of the most overrated backs since Larry Csonka.

The year he got his MVP, he had the world's best o line, they were the real deal and were opening ho size holes for him, I mean, my grandmom could have ran through that.

He turned 30 after the 05-06 season. That's all the explanation one needs. The Seahawks were foolish to sign him to such a long-term contract.

@4 - His trade value isn't that high right now, especially when you consider how deep this year's draft is with running talent.

Also, we went for the best available free agent TE (Alge Crumpler), but we didnt' get him.

@10 - Exactly. Shaun ran like he wanted to be the first NFL back to ever retire after a full career and not be living on vicodin and ibuprofen with joints that cracked like gunshots. Never had the killer in him. But in 2005 he was fun to watch with that O line. However, he was nothing special in the Super Bowl, didn't take it like it was his. Too much smiling, not enough glowering. Too much serotonin maybe.

Nothing showed just how many Seahawks fans were utter dipshits that don't know anything about football (and it is most of them) than Shaun Alexander.

Your grandmother could not have wrongfooted the mike and cutback on the overpursuing strong safety, dumbass. If it's "all o-line", why didn't Mack Strong have an MVP year? Surely you're not going to say old 38 wasn't a gladiator.

Of course, half the fans around here still have ridiculous mancrushes on "the Boz", so that probably tells you all you need to know anyway.