What the Rams need and don’t need this offseason

Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty ImagesWe know what the Los Angeles Rams needed as of Friday morning: 2021 salary cap space. But that will take care of itself soon enough. What do the Rams need — or don’t need — that we can’t reliably predict will happen at this moment?

I have a few thoughts on that.

What I think the Rams need: A difficult conversation about their tackles

With the Chiefs releasing Eric Fisher and Mitchell Schwartz this week, it emphasized how deep this free agent class of tackles is going to be. Are any of the options going to be upgrades over the Andrew Whitworth that we’ve come to know over most of the last four seasons? Are there going to be right tackles that move the needle…