I think the Titans may trade Scaife

Yes. I do. On or before draft day. Been thinking of this for a while now, and look, I'm not crazy about paying Scaife $4.46M and it's not even my money. I feel he deserves a long-term deal, but I'm not sure if it's here or elsewhere. I hope the Titans are working out a long-term deal with him either way, just to reduce the cap hit, but also because it also gets the heavy lifting done in the event a trade does work out. Four years, maybe a little better than Gage's contract, I dunno. Whatever, the cap hit needs to come down ASAP.

Next, here's the fun part. I think Scaife is very tradeable. Even if the Titans miss that boat this year, this would be something they could address the following year, provided nothing bad happened to Bo. Offhand, I would value him as a second round pick.

Here's a hypothetical: say Detroit was an interested trade partner. Let's say we offered Scaife and a swap of picks, #30 for #20. That by either draft trade value chart places Scaife as a mid third round pick. Not enough? Say they as well swapped third round picks. That would equate to adding a 4th round pick to the mix. I think Scaife could garner a bit more than that. The deal is this: we have him now, but we could have just as easily let him hit FA and had nothing to show for it. I wouldn't mind letting him go for an extra pick, a second, or a high third, outright.

We have to get a #1 WR and though Scaife had a good year, I feel his production is overall replaceable, just as Roydell and Gage's have been.

So maybe a Brandon Pettigrew could fall, or if Alphonso Smith was going high, we could get him, or Jeremy Maclin, or Vontae Davis, Aaron Maybin, Brian Orakpo. Not saying I want these players more than some others, but you get the idea.

As far as Scaife goes, I wouldn't care to go in with Crumpler, Stevens and rookie, like Jared Cook who ran a 4.5 40, 41" vert and is 6'5" 246. Or a Shawn Nelson, Cornelius Ingram or James Casey. Not that I'm this naive or would think the Titans would overlook the defense this long, but if the Titans were to manage drafting Darius Hayward-Bey and Jared Cook, they would have the fastest RB, WR and TE in the NFL. Getting even one of those guys could be very significant for us, but we'll see. That's why getting another 1st, 2nd, 3rd round pick could be very useful. Not to mention, we'll have tough decisions coming as soon as next year, and it's be nice to have more superior talent to groom and a better price over the next four to five years.

 

I like that idea, I'm just not sure we're lucky the second time around, either. Hope we are. Aside from Tony, I'd like to get Chad, and was hoping we could use the pick as fodder in that endeavor. With, but especially without, Gonzalez, I'd draft a TE, but maybe Jared Cook, who ran the 40 in 4.5 and had the 41" vertical. 6'5" and 246 to boot. But I like Nelson as well, and James Casey.

I like the LW trade, but, I don't undervalue him like some do. I'm okay with getting value for him while we can, but I can see LenDale re-signing to play with Chris Johnson. If there's one thing I believe you can say about LenDale regardless of how you feel about him as a player is he is not a malcontent. He seems perfectly happy right where he's at. Maybe the FO has already made up their mind, or will at least try to gauge his value, but you know, I would want as close to a guarantee as I could have that his prodcuction could be replaced. Twenty-five TDs between those two backs is nothing to sneeze at. Also, if the Chiefs (Polian) balked at the idea of losing Gonzalez but were interested in the trade, what could we get? I think both guys could bring a third each, but what does that add up to? A second and a late pick? I dunno.

Anyway, all that's to say I think Scaife's production is more easily replaced. Five hundred fifty-eight yards and two TDs versus 750+ and 15 TDs. That's what people forget. In two years, LenDale has almost double the yards and like seven times the number of touchdowns. WTF? So, I say, great, if we can get good value for him, let's do it, but I think that's a solid third given his production, and yeah, maybe a fourth, but if that's all it is, I'm far less intrigued. (I like the idea of a second like we gave up for him, myself. Get out what we put in.) Fifteen touchdowns for a fourth rounder? No. Like, I'd take a second and a third for LenDale and Bo, and yeah, if we basically popped out of that deal with KC's third and Gonzalez, I might do it. Say what you want, but Gonzo himself said two years, so I wouldn't be in that big a hurry to release our youth, much as I like Gonzalez and hope we get him.

 

Hadn't considered the SB, but then, under what circumstances do teams execute "sign and trades?" I guess what I should have said is he agrees to terms with his new team just before we trade him. I suppose the team could put the bonus as a roster paid at a certain date, by which time the team would have traded him and not have to pay the bonus. But...I...guess...that's why you don't sign first. Should it be a "trade then sign," like it should be "sign THEN drive?"

 

Randall Godfrey.