... clamoring for the Seahawks to cut receiver Deion Branch, who has been an injury-plagued bust since Tim Ruskell traded a first-round pick for him in 2006. 

Branch has played in only 33 of 47 possible games in that time, and the Hawks have paid him $22.5 million for the meager production (average of 44 catches, 599 yards and four touchdowns per season).

Ruskell certainly should have told Branch to take a pay cut from the $4.94 million he will make in 2009, but simply cutting the receiver now would be stupid.

For one, the Hawks would save a mere $140,000 against the salary cap ($4.8 million in bonus proration would accelerate to 2009).

But bigger than that, why would the Hawks cut a talented guy who has shown the...

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