NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Welcome to the best and biggest of the mailbags where we hit topics you won't see elsewhere. I'm sure at the end you will agree. 

First, feel free to enjoy this Periscope where I get annoyed with some questions that aren't nearly as good as the ones below. Fun!

#Titans’ discussion https://t.co/54BX989ePu

— Paul Kuharsky (@PaulKuharskyNFL) February 22, 2019

Now on to bigger and better things.

Thanks for all the excellent contributions.

Jamie Zaleski What is the downside in giving Kevin Byard less money but making it 100% guaranteed? So if you say $13m per year, could titans say 5/$55m all guaranteed. If he gets injured titans probably aren’t cutting him anyway in next 5 years. Only lose if he has a career ending injury.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The idea that the Titans should draft a quarterback every year until they hit comes up periodically.

Another thing I hear a lot is that they should spend a mid-round pick on a quarterback.

I've been overdue to delve into these ideas, both of which I've long considered nonsensical.

Midday 180 production assistant Wes Patrick helped me on a large-scale project to find out just what a team might expect if it drafted a QB every year and what hit rate it could expect with a mid-round pick.

In the last 10 years…

By BLAKE BEDDINGFIELD, special contributor

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Titans have many options leading into the player acquisition portion of the offseason.  

The top front offices will gauge the differences in free agency and the strength of the draft and use this to their advantage to not overpay for high-priced free agents but acquire younger less expensive players of similar skill.

A good balance in the draft and free agency is necessary to replace players that no longer provide the production the team needs.

The Titans only have six draft choices and can’t fill all their needs in the draft. Free agency needs to be used to fill roster spots. With impending free agents like Marcus Mariota, Kevin Byard and Brett Kern they will consume a high price at their respective positions. The team has high salaries at a lot of positions, so it needs to maintain a smart approach this offseason.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Titans have not made any decisions on what they will do with their offensive line in 2019.

Taylor Lewan will be at left tackle, we know that. Nothing else is written in stone on a line that has been together for three years.

But things need to change.

For starters, left guard Quinton Spain is heading toward unrestricted free agency. There is no indication of any negotiations going on there, and with free agency opening March 13 odds are good he’ll check the market.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Welcome to our newest feature, "Take a Lap," brought to us by Nashville Baseball Academy.

Each week, I'll meet up with a member of the site at his or her local high school field and we'll take a lap during which he or she can ask me anything. Then, as I get access to the Titans, we'll shift into me convincing one of them to take a lap with me, and I'll do the questioning.

We started off with Adam Perutelli, who I thought had excellent questions.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The solution to the Titans’ biggest Marcus Mariota problem is simple.

Have the NFL’s best backup quarterback.

(Photo courtesy Cleveland Browns)

To get there, in a year where they see Mariota’s salary bump up $13 million to nearly $21 million, they need to spend even more on the position. Blaine Gabbert is scheduled to make $1.5 million and count $2 million against the salary cap.

The Titans need to move on from him and swallow the $500,000 in dead money left from the $1 million bonus he got in 2018.

Then I think they need to target one of four quarterbacks who I think would amount to a significant upgrade behind Mariota, so that when he's hurt they can still win a game like last year's season finale against the Colts.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Annually, we see mock drafters giving the Titans players they don’t really need.

Why does this seem to happen so often?

Pete Prisco is a friend and an excellent analyst in my eyes. He recently gave the Titans Byron Murphy, a cornerback out of Washington, saying he could start right away for a team that needs to cover better in a division with Andrew Luck and Deshaun Watson.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Eric Reid’s new deal with the Carolina Panther’s screws up the safety market and messes things up for the Titans.

They got Kenny Vaccaro at a discount price in 2018 no doubt – he made $1.08 million, losing out on an additional $18,750 in per game bonuses when he missed three games with an elbow injury.

But after a very good year, he will be looking for at least what Reid got – a reported three-year, $21.7 million extension with a $7.5 million bonus and $10 million guaranteed.

Blake Beddingfield characterized Vaccaro’s year as “much better” than Reid’s.