Mike Tannier

But, you know, fans around the country will be forgiven for saying, gosh, the Rams is the team to beat right now and thinking that that's the team that they need to go with.

You can kind of see the logic because they had their first round pick in 2027 year marked.

It was going to go to Garrett or it might've gone someplace else.

They were trying to do something with AJ Brown.

They were trying to do something wacky on that end as well.

So somewhere in the bowels of their decision-making process, they said, what if Stafford has to retire?

And somebody in that organization really liked Simpson.

It sounds like it was Snead.

Snead was on board with Simpson.

The rest of us weren't.

It doesn't sound like McVeigh really was.

But in the front office and scouting, they liked Simpson.

So they went out and made that move.

It's still baffling.

They can explain it a thousand times and it's still baffling.

Why didn't you trade down then?

You could have gone down 10 spots, gotten another pick, grabbed another guy.

Why didn't you do that?

There's no good logic for it.

And the bottom line for the future is,