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Titans trade Dorial Green-Beckham to the Eagles for offensive line depth


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The Tennessee Titans parted ways with Dorial Green-Beckham after only one season, trading the former second-round pick to the Philadelphia Eagles for offensive lineman Dennis Kelly, the team announced on Tuesday morning.

Green-Beckham, 23, starred for Missouri right away as a freshman in 2012, but was dismissed by the program in 2014 after his sophomore season following a series of legal troubles, including a pair of arrests on drug charges. He transferred to Oklahoma, but never played for the team before entering the 2015 NFL Draft.

As a rookie, Green-Beckham paired with No. 2 overall pick Marcus Mariota and finished the 2015 season with 32 receptions for 549 yards and four touchdowns. While he looked to be a promising young piece for the Titans to groom, Green-Beckham fell out of favor with Mike Mularkey and the Titans head coach publicly questioned the receiver's work ethic.

"That's spending extra time when nobody is watching," Mularkey told ESPN's Paul Kuharsky. "That's doing things when nobody is watching. That's in the classroom. I think it's just putting the work in without being directed by anybody. Doing it yourself."

If Green-Beckham puts in that extra work, it won't be with the Titans. The 6'5 red zone target is headed to Philadelphia where he'll join a young receiver corps that features Nelson Agholor, Jordan Matthews and Rueben Randle.

The trade helps bolster the Titans' offensive line by adding Kelly, a former fifth-round pick with 30 NFL games and 15 starts under his belt, but hurts a position group that the team was already lacking at. The Titans added Andre Johnson earlier in the offseason, but the 35-year-old receiver is not the player he once was and is part of an underwhelming group of receivers led by Rishard Matthews, Tajae Sharpe and Kendall Wright.

Kelly played in multiple spots along the Philadelphia offensive line and most recently made two starts at right tackle for the Eagles during the 2015 season.

 

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2016/8/16/12501498/dorial-green-beckham-trade-philadelphia-eagles-tennessee-titans

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Agreed, it was a bag of shit for a bag of shit, straight across the board.

 

I'm jealous that you Eagles have bags of shit that other teams want, though. Green-Beckham is a head case but he's got a lot of potential. If he can have a turnaround like Tyrann Mathieu or Pacman Jones, he will be a good player.

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id rather take the shot on a guy as talented as green-beckham than have Kelly. Especially with all the question marks you already have at wr

He showed up and caught the passes he needed to catch. Hell, even Agholor looked good in the last game. Interested in seeing how well they play in the opener. O line seems to be shaping up as well.

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You weren't paying attention. Your bad.

 

LOL, well I fully confess I haven't been paying attention, its been a few years running now that I don't follow the league like I used to - that's why I asked!

 

But with a new coach, probably playing a system derived from Andy Reid, I don't think we really know what that running game is going to look like. Matthews is about to turn 30. Sproles, everybody loves Sproles, but he's got to be hitting his mid 30s now. Deeper down the depth chart, I have no clue other than vaguely recognizing the names. Rookie QB, and a passing game that nobody has high expectations for.... feel free to spin it, but conventional wisdom says this doesn't add up to a raging run game.

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LOL, well I fully confess I haven't been paying attention, its been a few years running now that I don't follow the league like I used to - that's why I asked!

 

But with a new coach, probably playing a system derived from Andy Reid, I don't think we really know what that running game is going to look like. Matthews is about to turn 30. Sproles, everybody loves Sproles, but he's got to be hitting his mid 30s now. Deeper down the depth chart, I have no clue other than vaguely recognizing the names. Rookie QB, and a passing game that nobody has high expectations for.... feel free to spin it, but conventional wisdom says this doesn't add up to a raging run game.

Mathewes, Barner and Sproles.

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Mathews can ball, man. His problem is staying healthy but he was an awesome signing last year until the Eagles ruined it by signing Murray too. He's thirty but when you consider last year being a lost season and time missed due to injury he only has 1,000 carries of mileage on him

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Mathews can ball, man. His problem is staying healthy but he was an awesome signing last year until the Eagles ruined it by signing Murray too. He's thirty but when you consider last year being a lost season and time missed due to injury he only has 1,000 carries of mileage on him

Barner is no slouch either. His red zone performance reminded me of Westy.

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