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*****The Josh Simmons Thread***** (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=357948)

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Originally Posted by BryanBusby (Post 18042409)

Middle of the road is what we had in Orlando Brown and people lost their ****ing minds.

This is true. But we’ve since seen how bad it can really get so we will all be very very content with average play there now

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Originally Posted by RunKC (Post 18042397)

Veach said that Burkholder has strong belief that he will by ready by training camp. Veach is saying Left Tackle.

Surely this won’t be a camp battle right? Jaylon Moore was never the long term answer as I thought

I don't think anybody thought Moore was the longterm answer.

I thought he could play for a year, and if he was remotely close to mediocre, we'd at LEAST let him finish out his 2-year deal as a starter before making a decision to let him go or not. In the meantime, the Chiefs at least bought some time to find a better option.

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Originally Posted by TRR (Post 18042381)

2026 will be the first chance Simmons has at playing a down in the NFL so we shall see. He won’t play one meaningful snap next season.

He could easily be a starter this season.

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Originally Posted by Pablo (Post 18042411)

Genious.

Dude let’s shoot horse steroids into his knee if necessary. I don’t care just make that shit work correctly

Couldn’t we just replace the entire leg with a robot leg or something?

Maybe switch Jones’s dick with this guy’s bad leg?

Simmons gets a monster leg. Jones gets a smaller cock, which will make him faster.

what a ****ing bear, man

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Originally Posted by Balto (Post 18042358)

Again tell me a tackle at his age that didn’t come back?

You expect me to remember exactly all the who's?

I can tell you who did, that I know of, and that's Jack Conklin and Jason Peters (I think it was him... swear it was could be wrong) I'm not aware of any others that had any substantial career afterwards and Conklin has kind of been up and down with injuries since.

Two guys tore them last year on the OL, Cole Strange of NE and D'Ante Smith of CIN. Smith probably won't matter, he's at the bottom of the barrel. Strange is a starter though and is only 26.

I’m calling it… Josh Simmons @ #32 > Eric Fisher @ #1.

I don’t think there’s any doubt he plays, it’s how long and at what level.

Maybe he’s the first to buck the trend, but it’s like a poor person’s retirement plan is purchasing lottery tickets and hoping for a miracle.

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Originally Posted by smithandrew051 (Post 18042421)

You’d be really good at being Frankenstein

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Originally Posted by Balto (Post 18042358)

Again tell me a tackle at his age that didn’t come back?

There's not even enough of a sample to filter for things like age, it's why the certainty over how hard this is to recover from is odd.

LMAO CP so triggered the Server died for a bit

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Originally Posted by Dante84 (Post 18042380)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Brett Veach said Rick Burkholder called Josh Simmons' response to surgery a "best-case scenario."</p>— Sam McDowell (@SamMcDowell11) <a href="https://twitter.com/SamMcDowell11/status/1915621976233660754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This is the crucial point that many in here are missing.

We're not just rolling the dice on an average case for this injury. So it's not like we have a player who just got injured yesterday and we're mapping out the odds of his future without having any of the relevant details.

We have medical professionals looking at the specifics of THIS CASE post-surgery and after some meaningful level of recovery. If you think our medical team is a bunch of ****ing morons, then fine. If you think Reid and Veach were so desperate for this pick despite the fact that we traded back a slot to take him, then fine.

But there's real evidence the team did real work on the medicals and felt like he's probably going to be in the top 10% of whatever recovery study people want to throw out there.

So please, spare us all with the bland statistics. We have a case 1 of 1 with unique details, and the team clearly felt good enough to go in this direction.

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Originally Posted by Pablo (Post 18042411)

Genious.

Dude let’s shoot horse steroids into his knee if necessary. I don’t care just make that shit work correctly

Chop it off and replace it with a bionic leg. Hell, let's just replace him with a T-800 at LT.

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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho (Post 18042393)

And he wasn't the same athletically before the injury. Not as strong, not as impactful.

Yeah, I'll hope they're right, but it's all based on hope.

No it’s based on medical experience and field expertise.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Brett Veach said Rick Burkholder was leery when he was first told what the injury was for Simmons being a patellar rupture. But after examining the knee and the rest of the staff agreeing they felt confident in the pick.</p>— Jason Anderson (@J810Anderson) <a href="https://twitter.com/J810Anderson/status/1915625360705589728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>