No general manager bats .1000. Even the great ones end up making mistakes.
And yes, I'm here to testify that this applies even to Philadelphia Eagles GM Howie Roseman.
While the award-winning general manager was celebrated for several moves last year that resulted in the Eagles winning Super Bowl LIX, he also had one big whiff ... the stench of which lingers.
Bryce Huff was coming off a 10-sack season when the Eagles gave him a three-year, $51 million deal, swiping him from the Jets.
But the meeting of great expectations didn't happen.
Huff's struggles against the run and ineffectiveness as an edge rusher left him unplayable in coordinator Vic Fangio's system.
It all worked out for the team in the end. Despite the swing and miss on Huff, Philadelphia fielded the best defense in the game last year and then this year ate a pile of money as it shipped the disgruntled edge rusher to San Francisco.
But ... how did the vaunted Eagles miss so badly? What didn't they see?
Recently, Huff opened up about his time in Philadelphia to Brad Graham on the "TheSFNiners" channel on YouTube, detailing that he saw the ill fit right away and thought a trade might've happened more immediately.
"If I'm being 100 percent honest with you, I wanted a trade like fairly early on," Huff said. "And just cause of how things went in Philly, I knew pretty early on it wasn't a fit.
"I knew a trade wasn't going to happen during the (2024) season. But I talked to my agent about it and was like, when it's all said and done, I might need to step to put myself in the best position… I kind of knew where it was headed fairly early on into the season."
Huff needn't be ripped for his comments, and we're not ripping Howie, either.
But it is a brutal truth: NFL scouts and personnel people - and I've known them for 40 years as an NFL beat writer - like to think of their work as being somehow scientific.
But they're wrong. The brutal truth? It's just as much a dart throw, a guess and a hope.
And together, Huff and Howie just teamed up to prove that.