Scaife Getting the Franchise Tag

I could see Bo having his best season if we land a #1 WR.

 

I was hoping we didnt let Scaife walk out the door, i think hes got better every year and has been one of the more consistent targets for our QB. If you look at his stats, every year hes increased his receptions and yards since he came to the Titans and his blocking has definitely gotten better as well. I see no reason why he cant have a breakout year this season if we can some how reel in a legitimate WR this year to play with him. This entire offense should be coming back with the exception of Jmac,which i'm sure all of you are disappointed:grrhee:,so we should have no drop off. If anything we should get better with another year under Dinger's system...

 

Yeahhhhh. I'm gonna have to go ahead and sort of....disagree with you there. Yeahh.


If he was not capable of being sent out anymore, we would never have picked him up.
We acquired him with the knowledge that he catches anything thrown his way.
If we had wanted someone to just block, we could have kept Hartsock. I'm not sure if whoever picked up Hartsock is even paying him that much more than what we are paying Algernon.

You can be French and 'give up' on Crump if you want, but I'm not.

 

He's capable as long as he holds on to the ball

 

Makes a bit more sense the way you guys explain it.

 

I like this. Maybe the money is a bit high, but we got loads of cash for other signings. He's our best receiving TE and maybe our best receiving option period. Maybe we can replace him adequately, maybe not....maybe we draft another Troupe.

The Gonzo idea just seemed like a pipe dream. We talk about these awesome guys every off season that we would like. But we're not the Cowboys or Redskins, it's just not likely we pick up top FA's.

 

A good move. Scaife is probably demanding a $5M a year deal. Rather than make that commitment just franchise him for $4.46M in a year when we have the space and we get him at his best again because it is a contract year.

My guess is that they offered scaife a deal similar to what gage got about $3.5M a year and scaife didn't take it so knowing they would lose him why not franchise him in a year when we can afford it? We get his highly motivated services for one more year at least. That gives stevens another year to develop.

 

For what haynesworth is demanding we can sign both rocky bernard and dunta robinson and have some money left over. If we don't franchise scaife than lj smith might be a possibility for less money.


Edit: My bad the texans already franchised robinson so to get him we need to give up our 1st rd pick. At least. Not that the texans would trade him to us in a million years anyway unless they want vince.

 

Robinson is tagged.