You brought it up. That’s how I know it tickled you butt.

If the thing that is most likely to happen happens, the obvious thing, that's not anyone having a God complex. It's just was is most likely to happen happening.

They annoying thing is someone buying a lottery ticket to pay for retirement actually winning and then acting like it was a good decision. It's not. No one is acting like a jackass that doesn't normally act like a jackass. It's just a career ending injury that we spent a high draft pick on. This isn't controversial - it's obvious.

And it's not just the compensation - it's the risk. If we'd have traded up into the top 15 for a LT I'd have been fine. It's the risk and this specific injury.

I'm not the one with 50-60 posts in a thread, pounding my chest about how smart I am...simply respond, and let it go. Don't keep trotting out the same tired trope...only paraphrasing a previous post you made in the same thread--in a public forum. And then pretend not to be butt hurt by the dreaded red thumb in a NFL draft thread. Drat, curses!

Relax, man....don't worry, be happy. Go take a gummy or two, or whatever takes you to your happy place.

And you understand that almost everyone with this injury has these flare ups, right? At some point he may be old Meat Roaf, right? That could happen week 2 of this season.

It's not an ACL that's just fixed and then it's good. This is a risk for the rest of his career.

lol

Dude, I don’t need to be a doctor to read a research conducted by doctors who are orthopaedic surgeons, that passed the standard required to get published in PubMed. Neither do you. I need to be able to read and pay attention to what I’m reading.

I really hope I have no need to ever say “I told you so!” About this pick. Because that’s good for the team I root for.

This board would be pretty ****ing boring if no one ever expressed disagreement with something the coach or staff did.

Doesn’t everyone take a risk stepping out on the field?

Here is who is teaching your kids

That's a pretty disingenuous way to frame the situation.

Yeah - I mean someone said "We'll know a lot in training camp..."

No we won't. Not good OR bad.

A) I truly hope nobody is just expecting the kid to come in and take the job and will shit on him if he doesn't.

B) Let's say he does -- the risk of reinjury or long-term compensatory injuries because of this issue are extremely high.

No matter WHAT happens, I don't think you can even start to write this story until September of 2026. I damn sure won't be dancing on any graves if it comes to that. The only thing that might be worth mentioning might be short-term opportunity cost but even that's an open conversation for quite some time.

All we can do now is wait. And hope. Probably for longer than any of us would really like.

If Denver or the Raiders made this same pick, the tone would be totally different about his injury history.

Veatch specifically said in his interview...he ONLY asked Rosen "you looking for Offense or Defense." When Howie said, Defense--Brett said, deal! I just don't get why some seem to think they know better than the staff who closely scrutinized Simons prior to pulling the trigger?

No one is arguing there isn't a risk, and he could be another wasted pick--but every team has those. It's not an exact science. Do you due diligence, and don't look back. That's all anyone can ask.

this a supposedly a deep draft. Mocks think we can get the Ohio State RB in the 3rd.

DT and WR in the 2nd and RB in the 3rd.

Dude...talk about axe to grind. No substantive disagreement, just insults. Get a life, man. LMAO

You 100% don’t know that.

None of us are privy to his medical specifics…so we don’t have to result in panic and doom.

Rick, Andy and Brett are, though…and they gambled on what they saw.

I already spoke to this.

Either Veach was willing to go back FURTHER using the leverage of a trade back to convince the Eagles to move up.

Or he was bluffing -- in which case he had to consider the possibility Rosen was as well.

In either instance, he was taking on additional risk. And just as I said with the Moore pick when everyone was hot and bothered by that one -- if he truly LOVED that player, he never takes on that risk. Not for the return of a 5th round pick.

Y'all demand omniscience to have these conversations. I simply ask that you exhibit some common sense.