Why The Titans needed to Attack the D

Why the Titans needed to attack defense in this free agent class and not have glaring, obvious deficiencies at several positions heading into the draft

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The Tennessee Titans have made a lot of moves in free agency so far. A lot of good moves and a lot of perplexing decisions. Newsflash: GMs are not infallible demigods. Good Gms can make bad decisions. They’re human.

I have been very vocal about the confusing decision to not fill needs when the free agent market has an abundance of talent at a position of need, and the draft has the complete opposite.

Case in point: The Defense. I have been telling everyone for the last two months, build your defense through free agency. Specifically, at positions where the surplus meets the demand: Linebacker, safety, and defensive line. The Titans have quite the strategy for two of those markets, Linebacker and DL, while probably having the good strategy of letting the safety market come to them.

Again, it's not about the positions, it is about the strategy. Paying Kenneth Murray a practical one-year contract was eyebrow raising from the start. The inside linebacker market was still flush with talent. So, why pay a guy that was ranked in the 250’s in terms of free agent lists. It was a signing grounded in hopes and prayers and not of logic and reality. I wrote about it last week, but Murray just isn’t good, he is a low-upside project.