Biggest Needs For EVERY NFC Team 👀
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Mike Renner and JP Acosta give their biggest needs for all 16 NFC teams following free agency as we sit 29 days away from the NFL Draft.
(00:00) Intro
(00:29) NFC East
(11:20) NFC North
(23:13) NFC South
(34:10) NFC West
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into this Wednesday edition of pushing the pile. |
| 0:13.1 | Mike Renner, J.P. Acosta, coming to you, as always, on today's show, rolling through the biggest needs for every team in the NFC. If you missed it on Monday, |
| 0:22.7 | we went through all the biggest needs heading into the draft for the AFC. Go check that out |
| 0:27.4 | after this if you haven't. But JP, we're starting here with the NFC East and we're going to |
| 0:32.9 | be going back and forth on this. I'll take one. You take one. We say the biggest needs for each team |
| 0:37.1 | going into the draft. And the Dallas Cowboys are first. I'll take one. You take one. We say the biggest needs for each team going |
| 0:37.7 | into the draft and the Dallas Cowboys are first. I debated here because I think they need corner, |
| 0:43.7 | but they at least have warm bodies at a corner after the signing of Kobe Durant. After drafting |
| 0:48.4 | Savon Reble in the third round last year, and then obviously Geron Bland, they have people there. |
| 0:53.1 | I think a linebacker to me, |
| 0:54.6 | though, feels the most pressing need given the fact that to Marvianne oversham, awesome talent, |
| 1:01.3 | his knees are tissue paper at this point. You have Shamar James there. You just don't have |
| 1:05.7 | the depth there. So even if those two are your starters, you need players after that. So to me, linebacker |
| 1:12.4 | feels like the position that I would most want to address if I was this team. It makes the most |
| 1:18.7 | sense when you watched the Cowboys last season. I mean, after adding Quinn and Williams via trade, |
| 1:23.7 | the Logan Wilson trade obviously didn't work out. And they moved Marisleafow to the |
| 1:27.9 | edge to try and get something out of that pick. But when you look at what Christian Parker is coming |
| 1:32.0 | from in Philadelphia and all the stuff they did with their linebackers to change the fronts |
| 1:36.5 | and be able to manipulate offensive lines and manipulate run schemes by walking a linebacker down |
| 1:41.9 | so they don't have to lose a body when it comes to pass coverage. |
| 1:45.7 | I don't think they have the linebackers that can do that. |
| 1:47.9 | Of course, finding those guys is rare, but they don't have the linebackers to even trust in a |
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