I’d have to partially agree with you. HOWEVER, if we don’t resign Big Al, I’d like us to use all that cap space that we have (which is a whole lot by the way) to improve our offense in a big way. (see the thread about Anquan Boldin). not by signing Justin freaking McCareins or someone of the sort, but someone who will tear it up for us. signing someone that is equal impacting to our offense that Big Al was to our defense.

if we don’t improve our offense, I’d say letting Big Al go was a mistake. if we do, I think we have enough depth on our D-line to make it out okay. besides, the best defense is a good offense.

with this… I think we could survive without Albert. He’s a monster, but after this deal you never know what he’s gonna be like. We are pretty strong along the D-Line so not spending an outrageous amount of money on a guy that your uncertain will keep giving you 100% is scary. All that being said, I still think I’d rather have him than not. He’s really good.

If not we have the perfect reason and opportunity to upgrade and spend money on a major position of need… WR! Preferably Anquan Boldin. LoL

Trade the 1st and 3rd for Q… draft a DT in the 2nd and go CB in every other round. We got Finnegan late. Maybe we can find another gem. We have been known for stockpiling a certain position in the draft. This yr make it CB.

…this is a fair point, and one that’s been brought up before. That said, two years is a Hell of a long time for a guy to sit there and try to spotlight. By now, I think that the habits of work are probably pretty ingrained.

Yes, resigning Albert is a gamble—and one the Titans may not take. But that said, it’s part of a coach’s job to find ways to motiovate these guys, and I think Fisher can do that, even in the case of Big Al. That said, I wouldn’t necessarily count on his work ethic if the team were to start losing.

but how often do you have the most dominant player in the league at his position on your team? Sure there is risk involved, but they really can’t let him walk.

on whether or not management thinks he is truly committed, or if he has been playing for a contract. Obviously, they would have way more insight than I would, but my point is, if they think he was just playing for a contract, I say don’t top other offers. Keep in mind, A LOT of teams are going to offer him ABSURD money. And we do have cap room, but that would dissapear quickly if we give him a huge contract, and I always look at it like this: What would the Patriots or Steelers do? And honestly, I think they’d let him go.

Now, I don’t like those teams, and with the Patriots I actively despise them, but they are the most successful franchise of the past decade, and the way they runs things works, and so I think it’s worth to emulate, and I doubt they’d top the money Albert is going to be offered, and I don’t think we should either wants you weigh all the risks and rewards. Keep in mind, this upcoming season will be his 9th. How many top years does he have left? Outside of Bryant Young, once DT’s get old, don’t they get old in a hurry? Warren Sapp was great one year, and then REALLY mediocre the next, and ALbert will be commanding aroung a 5+ year deal. Is he really going to be good for that long?

That crummy O-line is now in the Superbowl.

ANd I would spend the money on draft picks and lower priced veterans to provide depth at key spots. Maybe a CB for a good price. Haynesworth has maybe 3 good years left at best, and he will get something at 5+ years and $65 million or more. Why pay that for a guy who until these past two contract years has chronically underachieved and may be heading towards a steep decline? We got his two best years out of him, now we let some other team overpay, keep the draft picks and the money, and continue to build depth.

All contracts are back weighted, especially in the NFL. So, it may keep us under the cap this year, but what about next year? Or the next?

And he will demand a HUGE amount of guaranteed money, which comes off your cap whether we cut him or not. A few years ago, we paid this price where we had cut all our old guys, went 5-11 and STILL were $35 million over the Salary Cap, because we had back-loaded all these contracts of our veterans. If you cut a guy, his cap number doesnt dissapear, it only is reduced. but if we pay Haynesworth around $10-13 million a year average, then cut him, we will be paying $5-6 million on the cap for him the years after we cut him. So it will effect us in how long we sign him.

How quick these fans forget about the years we gutted our team because we were in cap trouble. Maybe thats the years they hocked their season tickets to the visiting teams because we sucked that bad. That will happen again, if we pay fat albert. yes he has been the best DL the past two years. Those were contract years, pros in all sports stats jump up in contract years. we have a lot of young studs on that D Line and some of the best coaches. Those years we sucked and we sucked, we had players starting on are team that shouldnt have been in the lague.

i think we’d be fools to sign him.

Albert on another team. I shudder at the thought of him on another AFC team. The idea of him on another AFC South team… inconceivable. disruptive defensive tackles that regularly and gleefully wreck offensive game plans and who are so intense that their own team-mates stay clear of them on the sidelines are not a dime a dozen.

that is all.