Jevon Kearse Released by the Eagles and Other Notes

by Jimmy on Feb 28, 2008 2:04 PM CST in Tennessee Titans News

As mentioned here by Vincanity, the Philadelphiia Eagles have released Jevon Kearse. Does the idea of having The Freak in Nashville again intrigue me? Of course, but I don't think he is worth it. He only played in 2 games in 2006 after tearing an ACL. Last season he played in 14 games but only recorded 3.5 sacks. Part of that might be because it takes a full year to come back from an ACL injury, but I don't think he has anything left. Now if he will agree to take the veteran minimum and fight for a spot in camp, I am all for it, but I think someone will throw some money at him.

Kevin Carter was also released, but I don't think he has anything left either. He would be a great guy to help teach the younger players, but I expect he will retire.

As DannoE mentioned, the Titans did offer tenders to David Stewart and Bo Scaife today. I really hope the Titans will use this season to work out a long term deal with Stewart. He has the ability to be one of the best right tackles in the league. They should go ahead and lock him up long term in a time where they have some cap money because he would command huge money on the open market.

Scaife is a nice player, and I am glad they are going to bring him back, but Stewart is much more important to the franchise long term that Scaife is.

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Cap Space.

Follow me here, and tell me if I'm missing something.

The Titans started with $40M of cap space:

Big Al is getting about $8M with the Franchise Tag.
J. Gage got about $3.5M (this year)
D. Stewart got $2M
B. Scaife got $1.4M
The team will probably want to carry about $5M of free space into the year

That leaves about $23.6M with R. Bironas still left to sign ($2M?) as well as draft picks (about $15M?). That leaves about $6.6M of free space.

Which is about the size of Alge Crumpler plus a smal collection of vet. mimimum signings.

What am I missing?

DannoE

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by DannoE on Feb 28, 2008 2:40 PM CST reply actions

You are pretty much dead on

$40 million doesn't go as far as it used too.

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by Jimmy on Feb 28, 2008 3:44 PM CST up reply actions

plus a little

Shouldn't the rookie pool cover a nice portion of those draftee signings? That would give us cap room for another star-level player if it's a reasonable deal.

DEAR M. REINFELDT: PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS GOOD DRAFT EARL BENNETT!!!

by August West on Feb 28, 2008 3:54 PM CST up reply actions

I don't know.

That's why I asked.

DannoE

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by DannoE on Feb 28, 2008 5:54 PM CST up reply actions

A note on Kearse...

Philadephia doesn't ask their DEs to get a bunch of sacks. They blitz like crazy with their LBs and let the D-Line be the second or third man to get there, so Kearse may have more in the tank than his numbers show.

DEAR M. REINFELDT: PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS GOOD DRAFT EARL BENNETT!!!

by August West on Feb 28, 2008 3:56 PM CST reply actions