2012 NFL Free Agency: Titans Wishlist #5 Cliff Avril
by Jimmy on Feb 10, 2012 2:45 PM CST
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PrintToday we take a break for the seemingly endless stream of receivers on the list to take a look at Cliff Avril. The one thing that the Titans need more than anything else on defense is a guy that can get after the quarterback. Avril can do just that. He has 19.5 sacks in the last two seasons.
We, as Titans' fans, are very familiar with how much different a pass rush can make. The Tennessee Oilers had a good defense in 1998. In 1999 the newly named Tennessee Titans drafted one Jevon Kearse and became one of the best defenses in the league.
In 2008 the Titans had one of the best defenses in the league. After that season Albert Haynesworth took his talents to the nation's capital and the defense went in the crapper. Those are two prime examples of how much a pass rush can help or hurt a defense.
A lot of people are screaming at me, here and on Twitter, saying that I am crazy for wanting to add a receiver when the defense is cleary what needs an upgrade. What the defense needs is a pass rusher. Sign Avril and this defense will be really good in 2012.
Click through the jump to see the previous people on the list.
#10 Ben Grubbs
#9 Carlos Rogers
#8 Stevie Johnson
#7 Vincent Jackson
#6 Marques Coltson
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Even if we add a DE
We still need help on the defense before we need another receiver. Our secondary, as of now, looks to be naked.
I’m down with Avril
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We had 3 Pro Bowlers in the secondary with Albert at DT
The next year the same secondary sucked.
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That's besides the point
free agents is what I’m saying. We could be without Finnegan, Griffin and Hope.
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A lot of people are screaming at me, here and on Twitter, saying that I am crazy for wanting to add a receiver when the defense is cleary what needs an upgrade
We still need help on the defense before we need another receiver. Our secondary, as of now, looks to be naked.
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Our wave lengths do not seem to want to connect
both floating around on different levels here.
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by JustinS on Feb 10, 2012 3:27 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
huh? so are you on record as saying you would like 2 rookies starting at safety for us next year?
For the Jake of argument ...
by BythePowerofMunchak! on Feb 10, 2012 3:32 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Barron fills one hole (1)! "IF"
& Babineaux covers the other safety position if we resign him. Finne would be some nice depth at CB but expect FA Tracy Porter or a 4-6th round CB replacement.
by titanwarrior1 on Feb 10, 2012 3:41 PM CST up reply actions
who is Barron?
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by BythePowerofMunchak! on Feb 10, 2012 4:05 PM CST up reply actions
alabama guy that's supposed to go in the top 10?
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by BythePowerofMunchak! on Feb 10, 2012 5:29 PM CST up reply actions
no
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c'mon man.... "no" ?
don’t have the time to actually reply?
For the Jake of argument ...
by BythePowerofMunchak! on Feb 10, 2012 10:27 PM CST up reply actions
you're one to criticize
U don’t even know who the top safety in the draft is
by The Nasty One Lives on Feb 11, 2012 12:07 AM CST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
zing!
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Jake Locker > Peyton Manning
by fanoftheunderdogs on Feb 11, 2012 3:14 AM CST up reply actions
Busy is as busy does
He’s a mid first to early second round pick. Recently suffered a double sports hernia. Out for at least a couple months, most likely more.
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you must be very very very busy during the day
because your comments just keeping getting shorter and more terse over time
For the Jake of argument ...
by BythePowerofMunchak! on Feb 10, 2012 5:32 PM CST up reply actions
Avril is good
But he plays alongside some pretty bad ass linemen. Could help his production a little
by -Erock on Feb 10, 2012 3:05 PM CST via iPhone app reply actions
We have some pretty bad ass linemen here too...
not on that level, but bad ass none the less.
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That would worry me, too, if he came here.
We all know what playing beside beast DTs does for ends.
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by TennesseeTyrants on Feb 10, 2012 5:41 PM CST up reply actions
Hell yea, sign him.
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by rsikes on Feb 10, 2012 3:07 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Feeling the burn
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I'd be ok with this one.
Wouldn’t take nearly the money Mario Williams will get either.
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by ronburgundy7427 on Feb 10, 2012 3:29 PM CST reply actions
Yarp
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Anyone thinks Freeney and/or Mathis make the list?
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by BythePowerofMunchak! on Feb 10, 2012 3:33 PM CST reply actions
Was wondering about Freeney earlier, but not any more.
I would’ve expected to see Freeney at 8, 9, or 10. Nothing lower (or is it higher?) than that. Just too injury prone and etc to see him at 7 or lower in my view and I think also in Jimmy’s…
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by Chris Colgan on Feb 10, 2012 3:59 PM CST up reply actions
ah so
For the Jake of argument ...
by BythePowerofMunchak! on Feb 10, 2012 4:59 PM CST up reply actions
he might be soon
Big contract and rebuilding team.
by -Erock on Feb 12, 2012 1:07 PM CST via iPhone app up reply actions
Would be nice to steal a player from Detroit for a change
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they don't exactly steal our best players ....
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by BythePowerofMunchak! on Feb 10, 2012 4:06 PM CST up reply actions
schwartz was a good pick up for them...
but i guess he wasn’t a player
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yeah he was good ... but there was a 100% chance of Schwartz leaving to go somewhere for a HC position
Then they took Eric Wright, Daniel Loper and Kyle Vanden Bosch.
The Ravens have taken McNair, Samari Rolle, Derrick Mason and Chris Carr so they still win the “Collect Ex-Titans Bowl” imo
For the Jake of argument ...
by BythePowerofMunchak! on Feb 10, 2012 4:17 PM CST up reply actions
none of these guys were getting resigned (maybe carr) either
but your right, damn ratbirds
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the fact that he plays in the wide 9 and he plays with some really good D linemen makes me skeptical
but if he can play then sign him up
yeah the further we get from the Wide 9 the more I lose respect for the scheme ...
as AW pointed out a while back … the scheme will usually boost sack stats but those sacks almost never come at critical points in the game.
For the Jake of argument ...
by BythePowerofMunchak! on Feb 10, 2012 4:20 PM CST up reply actions
This...
i’d prefer a player with no questions about things like that…anyone whose stats come from a wide 9 scheme should have atleast 1 or 2 sacks deducted from there stats
by Cop Speed's Understudy on Feb 10, 2012 5:36 PM CST up reply actions
at least
Let’s say a wide 9 DE plays 50 snaps in a game …. I would estimate that in 40 of those snaps he is asked “to go get the quarterback” with little regard for anything else. You’re looking at HUNDREDS of snap opportunities during the season where that DE has no other responsibility other than trying to sack the QB. So crudely we can look at those stats as such:
DE in Wide 9 has 12 sacks out of 600 pass rush attempts … Now while I don’t know how many opportunities are provided in other schemes … that ratio just seems really poor.
Pratt gets at least 200 sacks per 600 attempts … so there.
For the Jake of argument ...
by BythePowerofMunchak! on Feb 10, 2012 5:52 PM CST up reply actions
Free Agent DE =
at least a look for Mark Barron in the draft…if we don’t get a FA pass rusher 1st round is def. a DE
by Cop Speed's Understudy on Feb 10, 2012 5:27 PM CST reply actions
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