What Moves Will The Titans Make With Plenty Of Cap Room

Spend it on the lines. Good lines would have given us 3-4 more wins this past season.

 

Hopefully good FA's that won't break the bank and could benefit from the start.

 

Dreams:
Carl Nicks
Mario Williams
LaRon Landry
Vincent Jackson
Reggie Wayne
Dwayne Bowe

Possibles:
Cortland Finnegan (resign)
Michael Griffin (resign)
Osi Umenyiora (via trade)
Cliff Avril
DaShon Goldson
Tyvon Branch
Brent Grimes
Terrell Thomas
Robert Mathis
Mario Manningham
Robert Meachem
Scott Wells
Ben Grubbs
Nick Hardwick

 

I would add Cliff Avril to the list of potential guys. Sounds like the Lions might not be able to afford to keep him and he could be a nice consolation prize if the Titans don't get Mario Williams (and they probably won't).

Another possibility is Osi Umenyiora. He wants a new contract and the Giants might decide to just trade him since they are really stacked on the defensive line and probably can't afford to give him a huge deal. The Titans could maybe trade a 2nd or 3rd round pick for him and then give him a big new deal.

 

I understand the draft is important every year. With all these big name and good players, we need to stir the pot in FA. It's been a while since I've seen high caliber players in FA. We can actually get good players, but of course if they don't break the bank. If we sign a few players in key positions we're wanting to improve, we wouldn't really have to stress over who to get in the draft such as trading picks to get a better pick.

I think we need to concentrate on FA a little more than we have in the past especially now we have cap room.

 

Keepers
SS - Jordan Babineaux
LB - Tim Shaw
DT - Malcolm Sheppard
DE - Dave Ball
C - Fernando Velasco
T - Michael Otto
LS - Ken Amato

Scheduled Free Agents we should let walk
SS - Chris Hope
FS - Michael Griffin
DL - Jason Jones
DL - Marques Douglas
DE - William Hayes
DE - Jacob Ford
OLB - Patrick Bailey
MLB- Barrett Ruud
WR - Lavelle Hawkins
RG - Jake Scott
FB - Ahmard Hall

Guys I'd like back, but don't know if front office agrees
CB - Cortland Finnegan
WR - Donnie Avery


That's 20 holes we have to date with 7 available draft spots. The guys I say let walk, they're all on the decline, no reason to pay average-good players top money. None of them are worth another contract from us. It's not personal, it's business, and re-signing those guys isn't a smart business move, wouldn't be a smart football move either.

 

We are going to have a lot of holes to fill, and that's why we really can't go out and sign big name FA's. Contrary to what some people think, one big name player is not better than 4 or 5 role players. The only time signing big name players works is when all of your holes are pretty much filled. We aren't there yet. Maybe if we can fill all the holes first and still have some money left over you can go out and get an expensive player, but chances are all the big time FA's will be gone.

We really need to use FAs to fill the holes on the roster, so that way we can use the draft to take BPA every round.

 

Normally I'd agree with this, but in our case we have no game changers on defense. Acquiring one of those would be a major win in the offseason.

McCarthy, Ayers, Casey, or McCourty might at some point become game changers, but right now theyre just dependable starters. We need a Troy Polamalu-Ed Reed type of DB, a Clay Matthews-Ray Lewis type LB or a Jared Allen-Vince Wilfork type D-Linemen. If we can get one of them in free agency, we gotta try and get one.