Tennessean: Titans miss right passer twice

No, you're right, my friend misinformed me about that. Bu the front office dug themselves in a hole by asking him to restructure his contract year after year, and he did it every time to get the team under the cap but at the end of the day it left us with one big mofo bill.

So here are your scenarios:

1. We wanted him but his bill was too high and expected him to restructure again and the one time he wouldn't right off the bat, we gave him an ugly ultimatum, which wasn't the route to go as that decision destroyed any chances of future negotiating. Keep in mind they didn't just ban him, they sent out a trainer to tell him. A trainer to play messenger? Seriously? Punk move.

2. We were playing "wait and see" with McNair and seeing how he missed 10 games in in his final two seasons, we didn't think he was worth his salary, (which I don't argue with) and considered him expendable and would only keep him on our terms and our terms only. The 50 mil bonus did exactly that, bought time.

3. From the very beginning, when they first started restructuring, we two-faced him and never planned to pay the cap hit or the 50 mil option (even though it was unrealistic to begin with), or make any kind of fair effort to keep him. The 50 mil bonus just to buy time, and if he became expendable, it was PEACE!

Now you can actually incorporate all those together but regardless, Vince was not expected to start his rookie year, and outside the front office, everyone was given the impression McNair was in our plans for the 06 season.

 

What comments are those? And you think you add something to these threads? lol

When's the last time you actually talked football and just didn't try to be cute?

 

I don't disagree, not here to chew out Reese because of his "do or die" decision and betting all his chips, I was simply stating restructuring McNair's contract year after year ultimately created this mess and that is a fact.

No what? I never said the two sides didn't talk before the lock-out. Yes, things stalled, but it's simple: The lock-out is what killed it, any future negotiating were kissed bye-bye after that. I'll give you that one on Bus, he's an agent, of course he's gonna look out for himself, and like I said, parting ways at the end was the right business decision, I never disagreed about that. Because you're absolutely right about not being able to sign their picks. It was dragging out, but McNair did not want to leave, and ultimately would have come to an agreement. But REGARDLESS of any contract conflict or endings 1 through 3, there's nothing to be reasonable about the way it was handled, it was a punk move, no if's or but's about it. Sending a trainer to tell him he was banned? Common man, it doesn't get much lower than that. But hey, a fruit basket and card saying he wasn't allowed but thanks for your time beforehand would have been justifiable. <---- Sarcasm Alert

You need to not misunderstand me. I was referring to his 50 mil option, yeah it was unrealistic but what I was implying is simple: They knew all that restructuring would pile up a big bill later, and they never had any intentions of paying the hit, honoring his contract, or negotiating anything, and it was gonna be "their way or the highway". Am I saying that was their agenda? No. Am I saying it's possible? Yes. If you look at my other posts, you'll know I'm not the biased type, but McNair was the reason why I started watching football, so yeah, you might not like it, but I'm gonna use words like "two-faced" and "booted", because it did hit me personally the way things turned out.

 

I know I've had this conversation 1000s of times with members on here, and it seems almost everyone just wants to blame Bus Cook...


But we had a lot of time and options to figure out what to do with McNair. He did deserve a better exit. It should NEVER have gotten to the point where he was locked out. He should've been re-signed or dealt well before then.


We do not have a good history in getting value when we trade our players away. Look at Volek, we publicly ruined him before he was gone. Look at VY, we've announced we will trade or release him... anyone think that helps his value?

Since we are going through sweeping changes, I hope we get a coach/gm/someone to advise Bud to stay quiet about these things, make decisions on what you are going to do with players earlier, and try to maximize trade value for our players when we do deal them.

 

Okay, issue with the writer on his article.

Cutler I get.

"Missing on" Rodgers though is a bit more of a stretch considering the team's situation at the time of that draft.

 

was rodgers good in college? what # did he go in the draft?

 

here this might help

 

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