Oh will you stop it with this. Stop apologizing for not being on the “glaze” train. Plenty of people did not like the pick and we’re allowed to express that lol.
The problem lies in the people who want to rush to defend every action of Snead and McVay like they have a crush on them. And then subsequently attack fans who do not agree with their actions. Those are the behaviors of weirdos who need to touch grass, not something you should apologize for.
It was a bad pick, and the vast majority of Rams fans initial reactions to it do not lie.
Simpson is a Ram, period, whether I want it or not - and I support the Rams and want the pick to succeed, same with all of my teams (Cardinals, Blues, Tigers) and what their acquisitions are.
For example, the Blues (hockey) traded Zachary Bolduc - someone I think has a real future in the league - for a defenseman named Logan Mailloux, who video-taped himself having sex with a girl without her consent and sent it to his teammates (which got him a misdemeanor charge in Sweden, where he was playing at the time, was absolutely one of the shittiest things you can do with a sexual encounter that isn't basically outright sexual assault or knowingly giving someone an STD, and dropped him from everyone's board except Montreal). I hated that trade, made it quite vocal, for that reason.
But I eventually realized this: Mailloux was going to be on my team, no matter what I or anyone else wished. There was nothing I could do about that. Was I boiling mad about the trade? Absolutely, I was. But I wasn't going to abandon my team. I wanted them to do better, to be a competitive team, and if that meant that Mailloux would learn from what he did as a seventeen-year-old, after all of the awful shit I did as a sixteen/seventeen-year-old...how could I judge? How could I disagree?
Was I mad about the Simpson pick? You bet I was. But he's a Ram, and nothing's going to change that. I was attacking someone who is hopefully going to be on our team for a long time, and my reaction to it was embarrassing and against everything I normally stand for when it comes to this team. I want this team to succeed, and if that means that Simpson is Stafford's successor, then why should I be an utter fuckstick and judge and disagree? Why would I want the Rams to be worse off?
Like it or not, Simpson is our pick, someone the Rams (yes, even McVay, despite all of the shit saying otherwise) were extremely high on during the entire process. We should want him to succeed, not fail. And McSnead has been solid with our draft picks, many more hits than misses. And considering Verse was our only other first-round pick during those drafts, I have to imagine that they have a good reason to make Simpson the second first-round pick taken and the highest.
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