One of the two had to be cut to make room for Houston and/or Smith. Tamba Hali was the more productive of the two last year. So he gets to stay and Flowers gets the boot.

I don't see why that's hard to understand. For some reason in this thread you've acted like people hate Flowers and just wanted to see him gone.

They waited to cut him because they wanted something in return for him and couldn't get it.

If traded, the team trading for his contract is only responsible for the remaining base salaries...meaning no nfl team was willing to give up anything for Brandon Flowers on a 3 year/18 million dollar deal...which is very affordable.

6/yr for a 27 year old pro bowl corner is NOTHING.

Which makes me think he has a medical issue that's scaring everyone away.

Because Flowers is one of our best defenders.

If they wanted to create cap space, they should have cut both kickers, Fasano and Daniel.

Losing those guys doesn't impact the team as much as losing Flowers and we have replacements in line already for them...or could get replacements as udfas

This.

A 28 year old who has been nothing but great his entire career has one bad year, and people think he's washed up.

We have plenty of overpaid slapdicks we could have cut if it were only about money.

Yes. Cornerback is not a position that you have to spend high draft picks on. Especially when you can get by with one trick pony types of CB's. The CB's that Seattle and KC are after wouldn't be great corner backs for teams that run a multitude of coverages. Therefore they fall.

Milkman Earl Thomas(and the lb's) were cheating up vs Denver. Peyton Manning said it numerous times if you listened to his mic'd up portion. It wasn't a matter of them being phenom tacklers as much as it was their scheme recognizing that Denver wanted to dink and dunk so they were playing their zones toward the line.

Denver couldn't beat them over the top because they have Earl Thomas and a very good rotation of pass rush

Oh look, a moron thinks he's going to educate me,

Crush him, milkdaddy.

This.

Was

Cutting all those guys combined don't add up to what we got by cutting Flowers alone. And no team cuts a bunch of other players just so they don't have to cut one under performing player.

One poor season, due to a knee.
If healthy, he is still one of our best players.

As for those other players, with without Flowers even in the consideration, they're still overpaid and should be cut.

I disagree. A lot of Hali's sacks early in the season were chased our turned into Hali by Houston. When Houston left with injury, Hali's production went to shit.

Once again though. He's had lingering issues the past 2 seasons and doesn't fit what Dorsey and Sutton want in a CB.

Sure, but that doesn't mean you cut all of them at once just to save someone who doesn't even want to play in the system.

The pass rush disappeared because of Houston's injury and Poe's fatigue.

Smith completely ignored Bowe for like the first 5 games whether he was open our not.

Personally I think it was b/c of the number of routes Bowe ran to the sideline, Alex's weakest area. Also early on it seemed like they used Bowe to draw coverage on a few decoy routes. Not an overwhelming amount, but passing downs none the less.