Our Draft Card is turned in...

With the first pick of the 2016 NFL draft, the Tennessee Titans select...Laremy Tunsil, OT from Ole Miss.

The Cleveland Browns are now on the clock.

With the hiring of Mularkey, Underwood and Strunk have sunk....our chances to lure upper tier OT Free Agents. None of them will want to come play for what they know is a sinking ship. Not even for a little extra coin that other teams are offering. We will have to settle for FA scraps.

With that being the case, we simply have no choice now, but to take Tunsil. RT is the biggest need this offseason, and we simply cannot fill it in FA. The QB needy teams will just sit tight and wait for any one of Goff, Lynch, Wentz, or Cook to fall to them. None of them will be so desperate as to mortgage half of their draft this year, plus an early pick or two next year. There are 4 guys with 1st Rd grades, and teams will be content with that.

 

I'm not saying that is who I want, but whom we will HAVE to pick, now....so why throw a pile of poo at me?

Free Agency is a lot like college recruiting. The Athlete doesn't have to take the offer of the highest bidder....and we have never been a team which bids the highest. So, we will be forced to address the RT in the draft.

 

Average Free Agents, perhaps, but most elite FA's are choosier about the teams they go to. You also have to take into account that the Titans are the stingiest team in the league, in terms of staying well under the salary cap and not paying for top players.

 

Watch this discussion between Mike and Mike. The first one is like "the Titans absolutely should trade out of that pick." The other Mike is saying precisely I what did in the first post. That is to say there ain't no trading partner to be had.