Tennessee Titans Morning Links: Upgrading At WR Theory Number 1,532,001 Edition
There's tons of scuttlebug that the Rams are going to clean house with new coach Steve Spagnuolo taking over. Among those in danger of being cut are former Titan Drew Bennett and former all-world WR Tory Holt. Expect the Titans to take a long, hard look at both players if they hit the market.
TitanRob has a variation on this story in the side bar, but on the heels of the report above ESPN's Rumor Central (Insider subscription required) has the following note about how the Titans nearly traded for Holt before the trade deadline:
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the St. Louis Rams would save $8 million by cutting or trading wide receiver Torry Holt before June 1, and a veteran scout at the Senior Bowl last month indicated that Holt and tackle Orlando Pace were being floated by the team as trade bait. The team would save an additional $6 million if Pace was cut or traded by June 1.
Holt's production dropped off sharply in 2008, as the team pushed to utilize Donnie Avery more extensively as the team's No. 1 wideout. His 64 catches for 796 yards represented the lowest total since his rookie campaign in 1999, and it was also 29 catches and 393 yards less than 2007.
A league source told the Post-Dispatch that Holt was nearly traded for a first-round pick before last season's trade deadline, and that the other team involved was the Tennessee Titans, a team that has lacked a game-breaking wide receiver for some time.
Some people aren't all too happy with Kerry's quotes from the Pro Bowl, but you have to remember that there are really only 2 types of people he (and every other player) have been hanging out with all week: the highest paid players in the league and vulture-agents trying to lure them by promising how much they can get them paid.
Larry Fitzgerald apparently ate Cort's lunch at the Pro Bowl, not that I watched.
Note to self: doing a national television segments on your humility and gratefulness is neither humble nor grateful. I mean even Barbara Walters and Brett Favre think this piece is too fawning to be taken seriously.
Jim Wyatt brings a message from the Pro Bowl we're all glad to hear: Listening to the interviews from all the stars at the Pro Bowl on Sunday, no one sounded more sincere than Titans defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth.Not Julius Peppers, who made it clear he wants out of Carolina. Not Anquan Boldin, who can't hide his ill feelings for the Arizona Cardinal organization.All Haynesworth did was reiterate what he's been saying since last year -- he desperately wants to stay in Tennessee.
And finally, check-out some NSFW (for language) video of LenDale's birthday party complete with Snoop in a Titans hat. Beware of the LenDale freestyle though... that thing was rough.Every time you email me a link the football gods smile upon you, so if you have a link you'd like to submit for tomorrow's Morning Links email me at mcmaugustwest@gmail.com! (Be sure to include your commenting handle so I can give you semi-anonymous credit.)
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I thought I was a real Titan fan!
And I never knew we had Drew Brees! Why did we let him go!
Looks like August has a case of the Mondays!
Where were you when Alge fumbled? I was in 339, hatin' Music City Miracles!
by gramsey712 on Feb 9, 2009 9:08 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Looks like I really like exclamation points!
Where were you when Alge fumbled? I was in 339, hatin' Music City Miracles!
by gramsey712 on Feb 9, 2009 9:09 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
fixed.
now back to sleep.
Where I was raised 2 + 2 = 3rd and 6.
by August West on Feb 9, 2009 9:12 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Who would you rather have?
Drew Brees or Kerry Collins? I think I am going to take Collins…I mean look at all the receivers Brees has. He really isn’t that good.
/trying to see if we can have a better argument in this thread than we did in Friday’s links.
*I, like Thom Abraham, do not endorse the views that were typed in this comment.
Titans Blogger at Music City Miracles even though gramsey hates it.
by Jimmy on Feb 9, 2009 9:13 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Kurt Warner.
Where were you when Alge fumbled? I was in 339, hatin' Music City Miracles!
by gramsey712 on Feb 9, 2009 9:20 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
JAY CUTLER!!!!!11!!!!1!!!!!!!
Did I do that right?
Titans Blogger at Music City Miracles even though gramsey hates it.
by Jimmy on Feb 9, 2009 9:24 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW MANY SUPER BOWLSSSS WE WOULD HAVE WON BY NOW IF WE HAD DRAFTED CUTLER!!!1111!!!!!111
7.
Where were you when Alge fumbled? I was in 339, hatin' Music City Miracles!
by gramsey712 on Feb 9, 2009 9:26 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
As long as somebody dies in a fire, I'm good.
DannoE
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
by DannoE on Feb 9, 2009 9:24 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
anyone but jason campbell
The Official Enforcer of MCM
by hal41605 on Feb 9, 2009 10:20 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Can't really pick on Cort here
The defense is so handcuffed in the probowl it’s not even funny.
The PAIN TRAIN is comin baby!
by BigW on Feb 9, 2009 11:59 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
I agree. It's a total offense love fest. Worthless.
Good to see BigW still around.
Where were you when Alge fumbled? I was in 339, hatin' Music City Miracles!
by gramsey712 on Feb 9, 2009 12:07 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Not dead yet
Just tryin……. heh
The PAIN TRAIN is comin baby!
by BigW on Feb 9, 2009 12:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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