New York Giants need to rebuild around this Tennessee Titans trade
By Will Lomas
The Giants should get this deal done
Right now the Giants have two things going for them: long-term cap space and assets to trade.
Earlier I talked about how the Giants only have an 11% chance to make the playoffs, but that isn’t taking into account what their schedule looks like in the immediate future. Over the next three weeks, they have to play the San Francisco 49ers, L.A. Rams, Dallas Cowboys, and the last two are on the road.
Realistically, this team is about to be 0-5 and no team in history has made the playoffs from 0-5.
Last year Golden Tate struggled with injuries and every time you play him you are risking lowering the value of one of your biggest trade assets. At 32, Tate isn’t going to be the goto guy for Daniel Jones down the road, so the smart long-term play is to move him for a pick while his value is still high enough.
The hard part is convincing a team to take on a deal that is basically a 3-year, $21 million deal including this season.
I think the best-case scenario is that the Giants figure out a way to eat some of that salary now and reduce it to something closer to a 3-year, $12 million deal.
That still takes $12 million off the books over the next two years and they would project to have top-10 cap space in the NFL heading into 2021.