Titania's Extraordinary Room of War FFMD '13 - STUFF!!!

titans0021 · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 1:20 am Post subject:

Thanks Nh.

The RFA tender and franchise tag period has begun.

Or only RFA, I believe, is Fernando Velasco while Kevin Matthews ia an ERFA (meaning we can sign him automatically for the minimum.

IMO, we should place a 2nd round tender on Velasco (will cost $1.927) and sign Matthews for $615,000.
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RuskieTitan · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:40 pm Post subject:

RuskieTitan · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:41 pm Post subject:

Also, I think we should start considering possible cut options and/or restructures.

If a player is in the final year they can't be restructured, correct?
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titans0021 · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:57 pm Post subject:

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Yes.

I'm just going to go ahead and list the names that we should look at cutting, trading or restructuring:

1. Eugene Amano

2. Matt Hasselbeck
3. Steve Hutchinson
4. Mike Otto
5. Babs
6. Lavelle Hawkins
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titans0021 · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:08 am Post subject:

Assuming we're trying to keep this semi-realistic, I would suggest restructuring Steve Hutchinson. Won't save us the save amount of cap room as restructuring CJ, but he's also a player that could very well be asked to restructure based on his cap hit.

Would look something like:
Tennessee Titans Restructuring Steve Hutchinson
Current 2013 #'s:
4,750,000 salary, 1,500,000 prorated signing bonus, 500,000 roster bonus, 6,750,000 cap hit.
Two years remaining on contract
2013 #'s post-restructure
$825,000 salary, $3,462,500 prorated signing bonus, $500,000 roster bonus, $4,787,500
Cap savings of $1,962,500
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Like to see Amano and Babs gone. Possibly Lavelle too because he's useless.
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titans0021 · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:15 am Post subject:

Also, as Stingily has seemingly passed Otto as the third tackle, $1.7 million is an awful lot to be paying a fourth tackle. I'd be shocked if we couldn't resign him for the minimum if we chose to go that route.

And Craig Stevens is another restructure candidate. Would probably save us another million.
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titans0021 · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:20 am Post subject:

Restructuring Hutch and Stevens, releasing Amano, Otto and Hawk would save us 8,623,333. Giving us $27,125,087 in cap room.
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RuskieTitan · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:57 am Post subject:

titans0021 · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:59 am Post subject:

Also, we can extend/attempt to extend one player and/or tag a player. Assuming we go ahead with the above moves, we will probably be sitting with a little over $30 million in cap room.

The only two free agents that we have, IMO, that would be worth resigning are Jared Cook and Rob Bironas. Not sure what to do about either of them though. Bironas would be much easier to resign and we could probably ink him for right around 2-2.5 million cap hit this year, but that leaves Cook with either a tag or taking our shot in free agency (where he will almost certainly be overpaid significantly).
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titans0021 · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 4:30 am Post subject:

Just going to throw a trade idea out there that I believe would be accepted if we offered it:

Titans get: Tramon Williams, Packers third round pick (#90), Maybe ask them to throw in a later round pick if need be.
Packers get: Titans third round pick (#72) and Titans fourth round pick

Unfortunately, we probably won't have time to actually make this deal as Green Bay appears to be ready to make a trade with New Orleans for slightly lesser value, but if Ruskie and/or some other staff members see this in the next 8 hours or so, it's something to consider.

Tramon, though not coming off his best season, would be able to man the outside corner spot opposite McCourty and would allow us to use Verner much like we did Finny in 2011. I'd be in favor of it, however obviously it would be up to Ruskie.

Certainly doesn't come cheap and he's not ultra young, so this isn't a deal that is going to make or break us, just one of the first reasonable prices I've seen on a player that is a solid starter.
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RuskieTitan · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 8:56 am Post subject:

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