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Originally Posted by RealSNR

They might, though.

Look, I love this front office/coaching staff as much as the next guy, but the reason I'm a huge fan of them is that I recognize they're capable of making mistakes, and that's okay because the entire game of NFL personnel management involves making mistakes from time to time. When I "put my trust" in them it's because I recognize that they can do a better job than all but a small handful of other NFL front offices in team construction, and the results over the years certainly show that.

If the Chiefs took Simmons, and you hooked Veach up to a lie detector and asked him if he was extremely confident Simmons could play up to the potential he had before the injury, I don't think he would say yes. I think he would give an answer like, "our training staff told me he's fully recovered, but we won't know what that looks like until he's in pads hitting people." In which case, the Simmons pick would be an additional roll of the dice beyond the scouting component you do in these kinds of situations.

The Chiefs need a LT. And I recognize I can sit here as a fan and say it's too risky to take Simmons, but that's a luxury Veach doesn't have. That was the position he's been put in the past two seasons. It was survivable with Donovan Smith for the most part, and last year it wasn't. In both years because the FA market didn't present him with a good option to effectively solve the crisis, he was left with being cornered into assessing risk, and he determined the risk wasn't worth it.

He might finally be in a position where he knows he can't keep biding his time and waiting for the solution to fall into his lap. He might be pressured to finally take that risk, unfortunately.

If he gives into that pressure and rolls the dice on Simmons, I'll sit there with my butthole nervously clenched for awhile and hope for the best.

Veach had always said he defers to medical team on medical.


What you said contradicts every statement Veach had ever made on their medical staff.