thejayconnor
Jay Connor
thejayconnor
Menace to supremacy. Senior Edior at The Root. Consultant and friendly neighborhood NDA signee elsewhere else. Impatiently waiting for y'all to stop putting sugar in grits.

Did you just spoil the ending of Insecure in the opening line?! Damn this article!

Kyler Murray getting the nod instead of Matthew Stafford is objectively indefensible. Murray’s missed three games, thrown 15 fewer TDs against the same number of picks, Stafford is 3rd in QBR compared to 9th for Murray, nearly identical yards per attempt, and Murray hasn’t even been a major factor in the ground game

Very sad. I didn’t know about his off the field genorosity. 

I’ve always felt the great people who truly care for others always have a lot of hardships and burdens in their life.

This is very sad, but given the choice, I think I’d rather kill myself early with alcohol than die of Stage 4 CTE.

Saw him once at Bed, Bath, and Beyond in San Diego some many years ago. Went and bothered him for an autograph while he was looking at pillows. He couldn’t have been more polite and respectful. He signed a spatula for me.

Alcoholism can be as silent a killer as hypertension and a number of other deadly illnesses. I have little doubt that Brother Jackson was self-medicating the symptoms associated with his postmortem diagnosis of Stage II CTE. May he rest in peace and be forever remembered for the legacy of good deeds he left behind.

Meh, his last two games before the injury he was held under 100 yards and 3 yards a carry. And the Titans won the first two games they played without him. He didn’t even get a single MVP vote last year when he ran for 2000 yards, he would have obviously been in the Pro Bowl absent the injury but 8 games isn’t enough. 

I’m just happy there are two Red Raiders that made it. Coincidentally they were teammates 

A toxicology report showed that three measurements of Jackson’s blood alcohol content ranged from 0.28 to 0.32"

It was one thing when the children of the athletes I watched when I was a kid started becoming pros, but I was a grown-ass adult when Patrick Surtain II’s dad was drafted. There’s NBA players out here who were born in 2002!

Simmons is a great player, but Byard who was the only one selected at his position also has 5 INTs including a pick-six and also a fumble return for a TD. Surtain II should probably be there but the CBs ahead of him had the rep already, he’ll get his starting next year. 

Derrick Henry is tough. He was in the MVP conversation as a running back. They should’ve named him and then just named the injury replacement.

Yo that Teddy Bridge line had me rolling at my desk

I work part time as a personal trainer for a gym and we’re getting updates pretty often updating our protocols. They haven’t made vaccines mandatory yet but if they want to keep the doors open and not have another lockdown I don’t think they have much choice. They brought masks back a few weeks ago and members are

Our state mandated masks again back in august and its fine. I had maybe 3 months where I didn’t need to wear a mask a work or the store. I see very few jerks not following the rules and they usually look like they know they’re a jerk because other socially minded people will avoid them.

This is a dangerous time. Most businesses allow people with no mask as long as they claim to be vaccinated. Now, we’re expected to go back to wearing them, and possibly quarantine again, after 3 consecutive shots? If you think the anti-vaxxers were bad before, good luck putting that genie back in the bottle.

I think the “Who Balled Out” portion needs an addition. This was a play in the 2nd quarter. Granted, it was third down, but this wasn’t an end of the game situation. This is the first time I’ve seen a team design a play like this in the normal flow of the game.

Laugh at Detroit all you want to but that team has played hard for Dan Campbell all season which is more than I can say for some teams, looking at you sorry ass NY Giants. Also we need to give some love to The Ravens organization. No matter what they always seem to find talent that keeps them in games and helps them