[JPH83]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Depends on how strictly you define 'needs'.

Because I'd be hard pressed to find any team out there that didn't have use for a 1,000 yard receiver. So if you define it broadly, everyone was in the same boat as us, at least as it relates to McLaurin and Metcalf.

And if you define it narrowly, we 'needed' speed because Jabba's crack reporting skills sure as shit made it look like we were about to lose Tyreek Hill about a week before the damn draft. So defined narrowly, WE didn't need DK Metcalf or Terry McLaurin, neither of whom are burners.

But in the end that's why you just shell game it. And I've said this for probably a half-decade now (often to O.City, IIRC) -- over the life of a rookie deal, EVERY position will be a need at some point. Now we have a franchise QB so you can take that off the list. But we've had people calling TE a dire need for 3 seasons here because eventually Kelce will age out. Anywhere on the OL is a need because guys get expensive. CB is going to be a need because Sneed's about to get spendy.

And then you just shell game the cap space around to backfill as necessary.

No, I've never liked that sort of analysis. It's how bad teams get built. And it's how rearview mirror criticism of relatively benign draft selections like Mecole Hardman take root.

Metcalf ran a 4.3 didn't he. Guy absolutely IS a deep threat even if he can't do the sweeps etc that Hardman does.