Locked On Titans - Daily Podcast On The Tennessee Titans - Tennessee Titans Dan Moore RISKY Franchise LT Signing, Russell Wilson Rumors & Jevon Holland Pursuit

Episode Date: March 11, 2025

The Tennessee Titans signed Dan Moore Jr. to be their franchise left tackle in a deal that is very risky. Moore is dependable, but his ability to be a consistent starter is questionable. This also means the Titans will need to move first-rounder JC Latham back over to the right tackle position. The Titans also brought in linebacker Cody Barton who isn't all that exciting, but can be a solid starter at linebacker. We heard some more rumors on Monday and most had to do with quarterback. Russell Wilson, Mac Jones and Zach Wilson all got mentioned, but would mean different things. Finally, the Titans still have more work to do and safety Jevon Holland should be at the top of the list. Subscribe to the TicTacTitans Film Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@TicTacTitans TicTacTitans Merchandise: https://dixons-dream.square.site/shop/tictactitans-gear/C3AAPNWXSXA6SBYG3USV2I7R?page=1&limit=30&sort_by=category_order&sort_order=asc Follow Tyler on Twitter @TicTacTitans Follow the show on Facebook @LockedOnTitansPod Subscribe to the Locked On Titans YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/LockedOnTitans/videos Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!BetterhelpDiscover your relationship “green flags” with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com/lockedon today to get 10% off your first month. Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONNFL at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year. FanDuelRight now, new customers can get TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS when your first FIVE DOLLAR BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

The Tennessee Titans make a big time move to get Dan Moore as their franchise left tackle. It's an incredibly risky move. I'm breaking down day one of Titans Free Agency on today's edition of Locked on Titans. You are Locked on Titans, your daily Tennessee Titans podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome to the Locked On Titans podcast. I am your host, Tyler Roland, Titans fans. Today's edition of the Locked On Titans podcast is a recap of day one of free agency, the Tennessee Titans make a splash move at offensive tackle and a risky move

with Dan Moore. They add Cody Barton as well at linebacker, but they're also involved in the rumor mill with guys like Russell Wilson or Mac Jones. We'll discuss all of that. Plus what signings I think the Titans need to make next before we dive into all of it, do want to thank you for making the locked On Titans podcast your first listen each and every day remember Monday through Friday Tennessee Titans content all year round always for free. You're not gonna beat that anywhere else

Make sure that you get subscribed stay subscribed It's your team every day speaking of every day Shout out to my every dayers out there tune it in Monday Monday through Friday. Couldn't do it without you guys. If you aren't an every dayer, you need to be one, especially this time of year. There's breaking news all the time. Roster moves, signings, trades, the drafts right around the corner and I break down over 200 prospects. So again, if you aren't subscribed, get subscribed. It's your team every day here on the Locked on Titans podcast. But the Tennessee Titans make probably their biggest move of free agency and they

sign offensive tackle Dan Moore to a four year, 82 million dollar deal with $50 million guaranteed Dan Moore. It's going to be 27 years old in September. He spent the first four years of his career with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He's athletic. He's six foot five. He's three hundred and fifteen pounds. He's got really long arms.

Thirty four and a half inches. Super long wingspan. That's over 80 inches. So he fits the athletic profile of what the Titans want. He's still a younger player that can develop. There's all of that. It's a lot of money though. Now I wanna give you both sides of this.

I was pretty skeptical of this move if I'm honest with you. I think this was a risky move for the Titans to make. I think that Dan Moore is probably not worth the money that the Tennessee Titans paid. And I'll go into what I think he should have been paid. But at the end of the day, we got to look at this from both sides again. He's young at only 27. He's athletic. He's long He's durable. He's played 16 games 17 games 16 games 17 games

So he plays and that's the common thread between both the moves that the Tennessee Titans have made so far in free agency Is there guys who are dependable and actually play. If you look at the analytics, he was top seven in the NFL and pass block win rate 92 and a half percent. So on 92 and a half percent of his pass blocking opportunities, he won the rep. So that's pretty good. You know what I mean? He was 23rd best and run block win rate 76.2% JC Latham was 27th in the NFL. So Dan Moore a little bit ahead of JC Latham and his pressure rate at 4.2% very low for an offensive tackle in the NFL. So if you look at those things, you say he's got the right body type. He's still a younger player that can get better. He can be an answer for the Titans for multiple years.

He's got some good analytics, but there is a downside here to Dan Moore that is hard for me to ignore. At the end of the day, last year, ask yourself this, who gave up the most sacks in the NFL last year? The answer is Dan Moore, the franchise left tackle that the Titans just gave $21 million a year. Now, the instant rebuttal to that is Russell Wilson and Justin Fields, like Will Levis, are terrible for an offensive line. And most of those sacks probably aren't a hundred percent on him. And I posted every single sack that he gave

up last year on all of my social media accounts and the Tic Tac Titans YouTube channel. And some of those are on the quarterback play at the end of day, but some of them aren't. And you could say, well, he had to go up against Miles Garrett and Trey Hendrickson four times a year. Well, I'm sorry, but Daniel Hunter and Will Anderson and Josh Hines Allen and Travon Walker and you play great edge rushers every single week in the NFL just because you don't have those edge rushers in your division doesn't mean that you're not going to play good edge rushers. If your argument to me is well, he's only bad against good players. Well, that's not a player that you want to pay $21 million a year to again, last year, 12 sacks, 41 pressures, five penalties over his career.

He's given up 34 sacks, 181 pressures. He has an issue with his hands. He's not good at punching, so it's easy to get through his shoulders, whether it be beating him to the inside or beating him to the edge with speed. He could be better with better technique. And if you have Bill Callahan coaching him, maybe you'll get the best out of him. But I talked to some people in Pittsburgh and they're shocked that the Titans paid this kind of money for Dan Moore, a guy who I remind you the Steelers drafted offensive tackles first first round and back to back drafts so that they could get rid of Dan Moore and the Titans went

and paid him more money than Ronnie Stanley. The Titans paid him more money than Ronnie Stanley or comparable money, at least a guy like Jaylen Moore, who went to the Kansas city chiefs for $15 million a year, that's the kind of money that a guy like Dan Moore should be making a low end, bottom level starting offensive tackle. And the Titans paid him more money a year than Lane Johnson is getting. Right now, Dan Moore's average annual value is in between Jordan Milata and all pro and laying Johnson.

One of the best offensive tackles of the last 20 years in a hall of famer, he's getting paid in between those. So if they paid Dan Moore, 12 million, $15 million, I might feel better about this. But saying we need instant offensive line help and then signing the guy who gave up the most sacks in the NFL last year. To me, it would be like paying Andre Dillard or Dennis Daley or Nicholas Petit Ferrerre, $20 million a year. Now, Dan Moore is a better player than those players. No doubt about it. He is better than those guys. But is Dan Moore going to turn this offensive line from bad to good. You have two first round picks now.

You have Cushinberry on a high-end deal, four-year 50 million. You have Dan Moore, four-year 80 million now at left tackle. That's four massive assets on the offensive line. There is no doubt about it. There is no question about it. There are no excuses. This offensive line has to be good. Next year, two top end first rounders, two top of the market contracts. This offensive line has to be really good next year, or this is insane. You put that many resources to the offensive line. Awesome.

They could still sign will freeze, which we'll talk about at the end of the show. Who I think they need to go after next. Javon Holland looking at you. But again, this could work out if Bill Callahan gets the best out of an athletic guy who could play his best football over the next few years. But now you ask yourself, you're moving JC Latham to right tackle. Last year, Bill Callahan told us he thinks JC Latham is a left tackle in the NFL. One year later, one year later, after Bill Callahan told us and the franchise told

us and the coach told us and the organization told us that JC Latham could be a franchise left tackle one year later, they abort mission. Nope. He's got to go back to right tackle on Latham as a left tackle and move him back over to right tackle after selling that he was a left tackle all year last year. That's not a good look here. That's not good. The Titans are admitting they were wrong about J.C. Latham being a franchise left tackle. Because if J.C. Latham is a franchise left tackle, you don't move him for Dan Moore. is a franchise left tackle. You don't move him for Dan Moore. So J.C. Latham isn't a franchise left tackle. He's a right tackle, which is still very, very important. But right tackle is not left tackle. It's just not. And Dan Moore has never played right tackle. College, he was only a left tackle. NFL last four years only left tackle Adam

Scheffner reported it local media is reporting it. Dan Moore is the left tackle of the future. Dan Moore is the franchise left tackle and JC Latham is being moved to right tack. So my skepticism of this deal for Dan Moore in general added on to what it means for JC Latham and what the franchise thinks of him. I'm sorry guys, but the rest of the NFL is laughing at the Titans for doing this. And even if it does work out, and even if Dan Moore is the best version of himself, it's still just an average starting left tackle.

And the more likely outcome is that he's a bad starting left tackle, which is what he was for the Steelers for four years. So I'm sorry, I'm just skeptical of this one, but the other moves the Titans made today, I liked a lot. So let's talk about them. Do you want to let you guys know though, that today's episode is sponsored by better help. Taking care of your mental health, maybe more important than ever right now, can feel like

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It'll probably be their biggest move of free agency. I'm hoping that's not the case. I'm waiting on one other big move that I think could be coming right around the corner. And we'll talk about that at the end of the show as I look forward to what's left in free agency, but Outside of the dan moore move, which again it could work out. I gave you the pros. I gave you the cons I'm skeptical. That's all

But I want to say one more thing about the dan moore move with the jc lathe relation You put dan so right now the tennessee titans offensive line is a disaster at right tackle and is only okay at left tackle. J.C. Latham was like the 20th, 21st, 22nd best left tackle in the NFL last year. He'll probably take some steps forward this year, but you have okay. Left tackle play and disaster. Right tackle play with Dan Moore. You're going to get okay.

Left tackle play again. And then hopefully really good right tackle play with JC Lake. So if you want to know why the Titans would do this, you have to overpay in free agency when you're a terrible team, you have an extra tax where you got to pay more to get these guys to come terrible team you have an extra tax where you got to pay more to get these guys to come play with you that's in play but in theory JC Latham could be one of the best right tackles in the NFL so if you just get okay left tackle play with great right tackle play that'll ultimately be better for your offensive line than horrific right tackle play and okay left. The Titans are

hoping they made two positions on the offensive line better with this one. I just questioned the price tag if it was 15 million dollars and a year and 30 to 40 million guaranteed. I'd probably feel a little bit more comfortable with it but at the end of day, that's the move Dan Moore at left tackle. But the Titans also signed Cody Barton linebacker from the Denver Broncos. Now Cody Barton, in my opinion, is an upgraded version of like a Jack Gibbons role. I'm not comparing him to Jack Gibbons as a player, although there are some loose parallels there, but if you wanted a starting level version of Jack Gibbons, you would get it in Cody Barton. That basically that role, you're still going to have Kenneth Murray as of right now when

I'm recording, Kenneth Murray has not been cut by the Tennessee Titans. So if they're keeping Kenneth Murray, then you're going to have Cody Barton playing right next to him. So Cody Barton has been in the NFL for six years and he's only missed four games in six years. Remember I said there was a common thread. Dan Moore does not miss games. Dan Moore does not miss games.

Cody Barton does not miss games. Cody Barton does not miss games. And his last three years as a starting linebacker, he's had 136 tackles, 121 tackles, 106 tackles. So he's a very productive player. He had some athleticism to him. He had an eight plus RAS score. He's not an athletic freak, but he's not, you know, Jack Gibbons is nowhere near as good of an athlete as Cody Barton is. So that's the big differentiator right there. Barton really is a guy who can get downhill.

He's such a sure tackler. Cody Barton does not miss games and he does not miss tackles. Okay, he does not. He's not great in man coverage. You don't want him guarding a running back or garden a tight end in 101 But Cody Barton is a smart and instinctual zone coverage guy the Titans play more zone coverage Anyway with their cover four mans and their you know cover two and their their different zone coverages They run cover three as well the Titans run more way more zone coverage than they do man coverage So Cody Barton is a fit from that standpoint. I think he'd be better in coverage than a guy like Kenneth Murray.

So now you have Kenneth Murray who could be your downhill hammerhead. And then you have your Cody Barton who can be your tackle machine. Come and think if there's a lead blocker coming down the hole, Kenneth Murray takes him on one on one and then the running back comes through the hole and Cody Barton comes over and makes the tackle. That's what I'm envisioning for the Tennessee Titans. And look, linebacker isn't a great spot in the NFL draft. So addressing it this way is totally understandable.

It's $21 million for three years. That's $7 million a year. It's probably only $14 million guaranteed. It's basically a little bit cheaper from the Kenneth Murray deal, which is exactly what the Titan should do. Six to seven to $8 million a year is what your average low end NFL starter is going to make in the NFL. That's what I want to pay Nicholas Westbrook Aquinay.

He's a low end starter depth guy. That's what Cody Barton is. So now you don't have to force Cedric Gray or James Williams in their second year into a starting role. You have two veterans that you can count on to play those roles. The Titans also brought back Sebastian Joseph Day. They also brought back Darrell Baker and they also brought back Andrew Rupsich. If you listened to the Locked on Titans free agency preview, if you listened to the Locked on Titans off season roadmap episodes, then you would know that I thought the Titans should bring back Sebastian Joseph Day on a one year, five million dollar contract, just like what he got last year. And what did the Titans bring him back on?

A one year, $5 million contract up to seven and a half million with incentives, but it's 5 million guaranteed. Darrell Baker, bring him back. He's a free agent, exclusive rights, Titans offer him a one year deal. Bring him back. Now your corner back room is set. Maybe you add an undrafted free agent or a couple to compete, but you don't need to go in free agency and get a corner back or even draft a corner back if you don't have to outside of maybe

Travis Hunter with number one, because now you have Snead, Awuzie, Roger McCreary, Jarvis Brownlee Jr. and Darl Baker. You have your five cornerbacks. You're good there. So Darryl Baker back on a veteran minimum deal. Andrew Rupsich adds some more interior offensive line depth. One year exclusive rights free agent deal.

He's back. Morgan Cox, the Titans long snapper. I've said, let Morgan Cox long snap until he doesn't want to. He's 40 years old. Who cares? Let him keep going. So with everything that the Tennessee Titans have done on day one of free agency, so far it's 8 20 PM Eastern. The Titans could still make more moves.

I think they're going to make more moves. And I'm going to tell you what I think those moves are going to be to end today's show right now. But I got to say B minus for the Tennessee Titans on day one and free agency with all the moves that we've talked about so far, I got like a C on the Dan Moore move C plus. I got like a B on the Cody Barton move. Sebastian Joseph day is a B plus Darrell Baker and Andrew Rupsich are B's for me. So I'm going to go with a B minus grade for the Titans.

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But with that being said, let's turn the page now. What comes next for the Tennessee Titans? What can they do now? The Danmore contract, 4 million 80 or 4 years, 82 million. It's only 50 million dollars guaranteed and it's all in the first two years. I bet this is actually like a two-year, 50 million dollar deal. That's probably what it's going to end up being. The Titans can get out of the deal with a little bit of dead money in This is actually like a two year, $50 million deal. That's probably what it's going to end up being. The Titans can get out of the deal with a little bit of dead money in year three, but regardless of that, the cap hit is probably only going to be around 10 to $15 million

somewhere in there. The Titans had $60 million in cap space, so they're probably down to 45 or so there. You bring in Cody Barton, he's probably 4 million to 5 million in cap space. Sebastian Joseph Day, probably three and a half Darrell Baker, Andrew Rupsich combining for about two and a half. The Titans are probably down $21 million in cap space, maybe a little bit less, maybe like 18 to 21 is where I expect them to be. So the point I'm trying to make is the Titans still have a ton of cap space and a ton of opportunity to make big moves. And where do they need the big moves the most to me?

Obviously you got to talk about quarterback first and foremost. We heard from Buck Rising that the Titans are interested in Mack Jones and Zach Wilson. Ooh, gross. Not happy to hear that, but Zach Wilson got signed by the Miami Dolphins. So that leaves Mac Jones. Sam Donald goes to the Seattle Seahawks. Justin Fields goes to the New York jets.

So that leaves the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New York Giants and the Minnesota Vikings. And it sounds like those folks are fighting over Aaron Rogers, Russell Wilson. I think Aaron Rogers ultimately goes to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Russell Wilson also ultimately goes to the New York Giants. But we're also hearing rumors from Connor Rogers or Connor Hughes. I'm getting the names mixed up. I apologize, been a long day.

I think it's Connor Hughes who reports on the New York football teams. He said that the Tennessee Titans are in on Russell Wilson and they're looking at him. So right now it sounds like the Titans are looking at Russell Wilson, Mac Jones. Aaron Rodgers still, but it sounds like Rogers is going to go to Minnesota, Pittsburgh, or the Giants with an opportunity to start. Again, it's never sounded like the Titans are interested in Aaron Rogers, although I think that they should be personally. Um, but realistically

speaking, Jacobi Brissette, Jam James Winston, those are my favorite two options. Because at this point, Donald goes to Seattle, Justin Fields goes to New York. The Browns traded for Kenny Pickett and Adam Schefter said, I'm not confident that the Browns are going quarterback at number two like I was a couple weeks ago. The Browns are probably out on taking quarterback. They're probably going to go Abdul Carter, Travis Hunter. and then the Giants are probably going to be able to wait at number three and still get Shadr Sanders and actually get a quarterback, making them less likely to trade up. So while Darnold in fields going to different teams and Rogers

and Wilson potentially going away from the Giants, like if Wilson goes back to the Steelers, Rogers goes to the Vikings or, you know, at this point, it looks like one of Rogers or Wilson is going to go to the giants removing the leverage unless the Titans get Russell Wilson and then Rogers goes to the Steelers. Then the giants are left with absolutely nobody. The Titans can trade back. I guess you could look at it from that point, but to me again, I think Cam Ward is the pick for the Tennessee Titans.

Cam Ward had his visit with the Titans on Friday. I think it was, it was Thursday or Friday of last week. Excuse me. And from that moment, it gets me so excited. If you guys can't tell how hype I am for all this stuff, this is the type of passion and energy you're going to get every single day of the year from me here at locked on Titans, but I think after that meeting with cam ward, the Titans decided we're sticking and picking and we're taking Cam Ward.

It's what we have to do. There are no good options available to us in free agency. And that is why the quarterback market started to move the way that it did. And that's why we're starting to hear, you know, that the Giants aren't certain that they're going to be able to trade up for a quarterback. So I think it's kind of changed things. So with that being said, if the Titans draft Cam Ward, I want Jacoby Brissette, I want Jameis Winston, you could say Russell Wilson. If you wanted to go with Russell Wilson and bring Cam Ward into the franchise and have him not have pressure to start, go with the veteran right away to evaluate Brian Callahan and then go to Cam Ward midway through the year,

go to Cam Ward next year. I would accept that. I just don't think that's as realistic. I think if the Titans get Russell Wilson, they're trading down. If the Titans get Jacoby Bursette or Jamis Winston, they're sticking and picking if the Titans go out and get Mack Jones, I think they're trading down. So Russell Wilson, Mack Jones trade down, Jacoby Bissette, James Winston, even like a Joe Flacco cam ward. That's how I see the decision tree right now, but I ultimately think it is going to be cam

ward who the Titans get, but outside of quarterback, I think that safety becomes super important. It's an okay safety class. I don't think it's a super good safety class. And I think the Titans now are going to have to address quarterback with the number one pick. And then they're going to have to look at wide receiver and edge. That has to be the top three that they're looking at right now. Quarterback, wide receiver and edge. If you can take quarterback number one, trade down in the second round, then take a wide receiver and an edge rusher with the second round pick that you traded down for, and then the third round pick that you acquire, then that leaves you with your

day three picks. And I don't think that you can count on getting a starting safety in day three. So go out and get Javon Holland right now. OK, and I think the Titans are going to be able to get Javon Holland because at the beginning of the day, it was said that the four teams that were in on Javon Holland were the Panthers, the Colts, the Commanders, and the Titans. Well, the Colts got Kam Bynum, the Panthers got Trevon Moregg. So that leaves the Washington Commanders and the Tennessee Titans as the two teams interested in Javon Holland.

Well, the Washington Commanders, if you live under a rock and didn't see it, traded for Laramie Tunzel. What are the Houston Texans doing? You went from four bad offensive linemen to five. What are they doing? But they trade Laramie Tunzel to the Washington commanders That's gonna cost the commanders and the commanders also made some other moves on the day They just traded for a lot of money with Debo Samuel You know what I mean? How many big splash moves can the commanders make?

I think that that makes it most likely that the Tennessee Titans get Javon Holland. And I think probably maybe even by the time you hear this episode, Javon Holland could be reported going to the Titans. I think that's so likely now and I would love that move for the Titans. Javon Holland again, safety from the Miami Dolphins, 25 years old, rangy, great athlete, 25 years old still. You don't get guys that young and this talented. He was a guy who was a potential all-pro early in his career. He's had some drop-offs as the Miami defenses dropped off,

but he had a lot of good ball production early. He had five interceptions in his first two seasons, I think it was, a ton of past deflections. He creates opportunities on the back end of the defense. And with Amani Hooker being on the last year of his contract, I think it's time to get a bona fide safety. And again, the draft class isn't great at safety. It's okay, but the odds of the Titans being able to devote a good enough

draft pick to get a starter at safety in the draft this year, very unlikely with our needs at wide receiver quarterback and edge. So outside of safety, we moved to interior offensive line. Again, if the Titans aren't going to be able to get a safety with a premium pick, they're probably not going to be able to get interior offensive line with a premium pick. Will freeze is still out there. I am less confident that the Tennessee Titans will go get will freeze

after they paid Dan Moore. I have thought the entire time that the Titans could only afford to have one big contract on the offensive line. In free agency, it either needed to be at guard or it needed to be an offensive tackle. I thought they would pick guard and then go tackle for the draft and value, but it sounds like, or obviously they went tackle. So the Titans may need to go with a value free agent at guard. And I think bringing back Dylan Radens or better Brandon Sheriff,

uh, 33 years old played for Jacksonville. Sheriff is not a long-term answer, but he would be a cheap value veteran who you know, you're going to get consistent professional offensive line play from either get Dylan ratings or get Brandon Sheriff on a cheap contract. And then maybe look to get an interior offensive lineman on day three of the NFL draft. I think that would make a ton of sense.

You could still pay will Freeze top of the market money at guard. I just don't think the Titans are going to spend that money anymore because then you got Kush, Freeze and more all on high level free agent deals with JC Latham and Peter Skoronsky on first round contract deals. That's a lot of money on the offensive line for an offensive line that isn't great and it's probably just good. So I just don't think the Titans can do that. Tevin Jenkins is another guy who I think will get money. Similar that. Mackay Bekton is a guy who I don't think is a fit for the Titans because he needs a strong locker room and a strong culture. That's not what the Titans have right now. They're trying to build that culture and build that locker

room. So for me, I would still like Wilfries, but I don't think the Titans go that expensive at guard. I think bringing back Dylan Radens or bringing Brandon Sheriff into the mix as an older veteran, I think those moves make the most sense. Defensive line and edge still need help. Charles Amenahue, Joe Tryon-Sharanka, I think would be good options for the Titans. We saw Dio Adengbo, Daryl Taylor, Hassan Reddick, Josh Shwett, Patrick Jones, Malcolm Coontz all come off the board at Edge on day one. So Charles Amenahue, Joe Tryon Sarenka, Aziz Ujjulari chase young still available But I continue to hear that he's gonna go back to the New Orleans Saints and it's just cap stuff that they're working through

But I think Charles of many you and Aziz Ujjulari at this point and Joe try on sure ranka would be the best Lotto tickets at edge for the Titans. You're not gonna get a great answer at edge now with the market You probably weren't all along good edge rushers. Don't go on the market. So Um, you gotta take a value pick at edge rusher right now and those are the options that I think make sense Uh wide receiver people are like who is gonna play wide receiver man, like Look right now options that I think make sense Ola, meda, zekias. I've been asking about him for a while. Elijah Moore, Rondale Moore, maybe a Greg Dorch.

One of those smaller slot guys who can also be a return man. They would make sense. Bring back NWI. I don't know if that's going to happen. The Titans might move on here. That would make sense. You got to bring back Ryan Stonehouse as well. That's something I expect to happen. But looking at wide receiver, the way that I feel now after watching the market play out, I think it's more likely that the Titans go after one of these veterans, Amari Cooper, Keenan Allen, um, Stefan Diggs, Deandre Hopkins.

You know what I mean? Um, there are more of them out there than I can even think of right now. But I think because the Titans can't have a good solution to wide receiver too. They might as well give a one year contract to one of those guys and just have them come in and try to be productive. You're going to try to probably draft a wide receiver pretty high this year. Again, I think quarterback wide receiver and edge are the immediate five alarm fires that the Titans need to put out, especially if they get Javon Holland. The only thing I really think they need to do is

add those three positions and they've done the best they can this off season. But, you know, you're not getting that wide receiver to production from the small slot guys that I mentioned, Zaccheus, Moore, Moore, Dorch. Like you're not getting that there. So you might as well go pay like Keenan Allen or Amari Cooper, like 12 to $15 million a year for one season and have them like Deandre Hopkins said, I'm going to prove to the league, I'm still productive and get another big contract. Well, no, you're not, but we'll take it. We'll take a motivated you for right now. So that's where I'm at with the Titans interior line, defensive line edge, safety wide receiver. That's where they have to go next. defensive line edge, safety, wide receiver.

That's where they have to go next. They have the money to do it. Let's see what kind of moves come on day two, but no matter what happens, I'm going to be here to break it all down. Make sure that you get subscribed. Stay subscribed. If you're watching on YouTube, throw a thumbs up on the video. That's going to do it for today's day one free agency recap edition. As always, I am your host Tyler Row Roland, and this was Locked on Titans.