Hand-picking a quarterback in Cabo San Lucas after that player has already thrown for 45,000 yards and more than 280 touchdowns in the NFL is different from what the Rams did on Thursday night, which is take one with the 13th pick ( Ty Simpson out of Alabama ) after 31 collegiate games and immediately after his first season as what one would call a full-time starter. The Rams had Simpson connections, with GM Les Snead advising Simpson’s father, UT Martin head coach Jason Simpson, on why Ty should defer millions of NIL dollars and enter an NFL draft that had largely turned a cold shoulder toward him as a true foil to No. 1 pick Fernando Mendoza . I’m sure most quarterbacks would do the same if there was a significant chance that they would be drafted by Sean McVay. But now we actually get to find out how true the mythos of McVay as a pure developer of quarterbacks really is. This, a season after we learned yet again the fallibility of the NFL’s quarterbacking guru brat pack.…