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14 minutes ago, socaltitan said:

I'm not sold that Hubbard or Landry is a big upgrade over Orakpo and Morgan. I just don't see an edge rusher worth 25 despite the need. I think the quickest, best way to upgrade the D is upgrading ILB and SS.

Ideally, we are never going to get a bonafide stud coming out of college at the pass-rushing position. If they think they can develop the guy at 25 to take over for those guys then it is well worth it.

 

If you just straight up not sold on those guys' potential as a pro but even though it's a day 1 pick it's short-sighted as hell to say that the guy has to be a week 1 upgrade.

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1 hour ago, oldschool said:

Lol no they didnt.

Yes they did. RPO’s up the ying yang. They knew this is what Foles was comfortable with. BTW, I knew you would reply to my post with tremendous butt hurt. 

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2 hours ago, Mythos27 said:

The QBs that had success against us did so by getting the ball out in 3 seconds or less. Pass rsuhers can't stop slants, quick outs, screens, and shallow crosses/drag routes; coverage does that. Go back and watch Jimmy G dice us up as a good example. You have to be able to cover and the longer your CBs can cover, the longer your pass rush has to get there. I obviously don't have hard stats but I'd wager that coverage sacks occur more often than the instant sacks where a DL beats an OL in 3 seconds or less. Rak and Morgan got close a ton of times last season. With Butler in the fold, maybe they can finish some of those almost-sacks now.

Yep! Secondary is every bit as important as pass rush now that QBs get rid of it. Pass rush still very important but this isn’t the 90s anymore. 

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Peter King:

• Malcolm Butler to Tennessee for $12 million a year. We may never know the documented truth about the benching of Butler in the Super Bowl. But someone inside the Patriots told me recently there’s nothing deep and dark and secret about what happened to him at the Super Bowl: He’d simply been playing like crap in practice and Bill Belichick did what he felt he needed to do to win the game—put Butler on the bench. (Though I’ll never understand dressing him if Belichick wasn’t going to play him. That was cutting off the nose to spite the face.) Butler always was angry he didn’t get paid before the 2017 season, or traded to a team (like New Orleans) that would pay him. Now he has the money. Will the Titans get a top-10 corner in return? That’s what they bought, and that’s what they should expect.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/03/14/nfl-free-agency-kirk-cousins-case-keenum-mmqb-peter-king

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Danny Kelly (The Ringer):

Most Culture-Changing Moves: Tennessee Titans

Mike Vrabel’s first goal as the Titans’ new head coach will be to introduce a winning culture to a downtrodden franchise—to install his own version of the Patriot Way. To do that, it helps to have a few players who’ve come up in the same program that he did in New England—players who have been indoctrinated into the “Do Your Job” way of life. Well, Tennessee got off to a good start with that plan on Tuesday, signing two of the most talented former Patriots on the open market in running back Dion Lewis and corner Malcolm Butler. Both players not only bring familiarity to the Belichickian approach to football, but both are highly talented impact players. Pairing Lewis with Derrick Henry gives Tennessee an enticing one-two punch out of the backfield, and adding Butler to a secondary that already includes Logan Ryan (another former Patriot), promising second-year pro Adoree’ Jackson, and ascending safety Kevin Byard gives the defense a chance to take a big jump forward in 2018.

https://www.theringer.com/2018/3/14/17118422/nfl-free-agency-superlatives

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