Could Tennessee Titans and New York Jets make a deal?

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Three scenarios that help the Tennessee Titans and New York Jets via a trade.

Last month I wrote about the turmoil within the New York Jets franchise and how the Tennessee Titans should call them up immediately to try to add some assets.

Since then the Jets have calmed down a little bit making smart hire, bringing in the Philadelphia Eagles V.P. of player personnel, Joe Douglas to be their GM.

I expect that to lead to a lot of business down the road between Titans GM Jon Robinson and the Jets for one reason, they both look for the same things in players. Look at this excerpt from an ESPN piece by Tim McManus on Douglas last week:

"“Considered a scout’s scout, Douglas’ traditional approach to evaluating served as a nice counterweight in an increasingly analytics-driven organization. He values production over measurables and character makeup above perhaps all else. He’s looking for leaders, and he’s looking for players who are football-obsessed.”"

That is nearly identical to what Jon Robinson has done in Tennessee over the last four drafts.

It may not make sense why them liking the same players makes it easier for the Titans to trade with the Jets, but let me explain.

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Let’s say the Titans decide that they do have a log jam at the receiver position this offseason and that Taywan Taylor is the odd man out. Now, on paper Taywan Taylor isn’t a burner with 4.45 speed and he is undersized coming in at the 22nd percentile in height.

You know who won’t care about those concerns? Joe Douglas, who will be more excited about his predraft grade and the fact that he tallied nearly 3,200 receiving yards in his last two years in college.

While I may write on the potential of that trade some day, I want to combine this focus with what we know about the current needs the New York Jets have. The biggest of those is cornerback, which was confirmed by an article by Manish Meta last Friday.

In that article, Meta goes back and talks about the thought process that the Jets had during the 2019 NFL Draft including an attempted trade that never happened:

"“They wanted [Byron] Murphy bad enough that they asked teams near the top of the second round like the Colts (No. 34) and Seahawks (No. 37) what it would take to make the jump. However, the Cardinals killed any chance of a deal when they scooped up Murphy with the first pick of second round (No. 33), leaving a suspect secondary — one that includes Trumaine Johnson, Darryl Roberts and newly acquired Brian Poole — unimproved through the draft.”"

So, the Jets need a cornerback and the Titans are deep at cornerback. Not only could they make a deal, but I think there are three deals they could make depending on the aggressiveness of both teams.

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