Try this poll on for size: The Titans lure in Manning....

[Direckshun]

Manning shows up to Tennessee for training camp is perfect shape and seemingly perfectly healthy. The Titans anticipate playing him for the next three years.

Which makes the 1st rounder they spent on Jake Locker seem like a waste of a pick.

So Scott Pioli and the Chiefs finally bring in a QB of the future by trading this year's 2nd, next year's 2nd, and another pick in 2013 based on performance, for Jake Locker.

Locker pushes Cassel for the starting position in 2012, and takes over in 2013.

He will be 24 years old by that time.

[KCrockaholic]

I'm for it.

[MMXcalibur]

No deal. Let's see what this Matt Cassel guy has got first.

[Big Chief Homer]

Never happens,Pioli never cheats on his wife. Locker would be a good mistress but Scotty loves him some Matty.

I voted yes.

[mnchiefsguy]

I would do the deal, although I would try to maybe get Locker for a 2nd, a 3rd, and have the last pick based on performance ...but not to exceed another 2nd.

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by mnchiefsguy

I would do the deal, although I would try to maybe get Locker for a 2nd, a 3rd, and have the last pick based on performance ...but not to exceed another 2nd.

I don't know... you're asking for a guy the Titans invested with a Top 10 pick, then looked pretty damn good in limited time. Plus he's gotten Hasselbeck training directly for the past year. It's going to be a little painful to get him.

He's going to require a cost.

I'm thinking something like this might get the deal done:

• This year's 2nd.
• 2013's 2nd.
• conditional pick in 2013:

  -- If he doesn't suit up in 2012, it's a 5th.
  -- If he starts at least two games, it's a 4th.
  -- If he starts at least eight games, it's a 3rd.
  -- If he starts every game, OR throws for 3,500 yards, OR the team wins nine games with him under center, it's a 1st.

[Ebolapox]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

I don't know... you're asking for a guy the Titans invested with a Top 10 pick, then looked pretty damn good in limited time. Plus he's gotten Hasselbeck training directly for the past year. It's going to be a little painful to get him.

He's going to require a cost.

I'm thinking something like this might get the deal done:

• This year's 2nd.
• 2013's 2nd.
• conditional pick in 2013:

  -- If he doesn't suit up in 2012, it's a 5th.
  -- If he starts at least two games, it's a 4th.
  -- If he starts at least eight games, it's a 3rd.
  -- If he starts every game, OR throws for 3,500 yards, OR the team wins nine games with him under center, it's a 1st.

**** no on the last condition. this would be more palatable:

Originally Posted by me

-- If he doesn't suit up in 2012, it's a 6th.
-- If he starts at least two games, it's a 5th.
-- If he starts at least eight games, it's a 4th.
-- If he starts every game, OR throws for 3,500 yards, OR the team wins nine games with him under center, it's a 3rd.

[mnchiefsguy]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

I don't know... you're asking for a guy the Titans invested with a Top 10 pick, then looked pretty damn good in limited time. Plus he's gotten Hasselbeck training directly for the past year. It's going to be a little painful to get him.

He's going to require a cost.

I'm thinking something like this might get the deal done:

• This year's 2nd.
• 2013's 2nd.
• conditional pick in 2013:

  -- If he doesn't suit up in 2012, it's a 5th.
  -- If he starts at least two games, it's a 4th.
  -- If he starts at least eight games, it's a 3rd.
  -- If he starts every game, OR throws for 3,500 yards, OR the team wins nine games with him under center, it's a 1st.

Make the bolded part ten games, and I would be on board. Ten games would mean a division title in all likely hood (nine probably would, but if PM winds up in Denver, figure a extra win or two will be needed.)

Actually, the number wins would not really matter...if the team got nine wins, odds are he would have thrown for 3500 or started every game, so the escalator would have kicked in.

[SuperChief]

Locker isn't ideal, blah blah blah. **** it. Just do something different. Give the kid a shot. What have we got to lose?

[RealSNR]

Locker isn't worth that much. Tennessee's the one who drove down his value, so they should be willing to accept less.

That said, if it's really the only option we have of building on a young QB with promising talent, I guess I'll take it up the ass on that deal.

Again, at least we'd be trying.

[carlos3652]

Id rather draft a QB in the first round of 2013 -
Id rather sign the other Matt from the Titans on a 1 year deal. Use my round 2 pick on a NT

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by carlos3652

Id rather draft a QB in the first round of 2013 -
Id rather sign the other Matt from the Titans on a 1 year deal. Use my round 2 pick on a NT

By the time that QB is ready, you will have missed the window with the core talent of this team. It is a shame, but now is the time, in fact it is getting late.

[KC_Lee]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

By the time that QB is ready, you will have missed the window with the core talent of this team. It is a shame, but now is the time, in fact it is getting late.

The more things change...

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by KC_Lee

The more things change...

Pretty much. It is getting to the point, you really don't have to watch anymore, you know what is going to happen.

[KurtCobain]

Locker should Cost atleast a first. I was thinking hasselbeck is the more realistic version.