brad

2021 @naturallight influencer. Nature advocate and peanut butter connoisseur. Salisbury Football c/o 2018 & CCU CMWS c/o 2019.

[brad @Rosee_Art]

Comment thread is downright gold for those wondering

[College Football 24/7 @CFB247]

Brad Rose
Salisbury, Wide Receiver 2014-2018

[Bryce 🎸 @MileHighMims]

I’ve seen enough just hand us the Lombardi or whatever the trophy’s called

[Jess Margera @jessmargera]

Can any maga here tell me 1 fucking thing that has gotten better since Trump got elected? I will settle for 1 thing that is better than before. Because from my experience, every single aspect of life has gotten very noticeably shittier.

[The Lakers Daddy @NugsGetBuckets]

Jokic is now the first player in NBA history to get 3 MVPs stolen in 3 years

[Will💔😵‍💫 @HoodieWilll]

The Minnesota Timberwolves when the other team doesn’t have 5280 or Nuggets on their jerseys

[Barry @BarryOnHere]

OKC is now a +48 this postseason without SGA on the court.

Possibly the least valuable superstar of all-time.

[Jake @JakeWayneSports]

Yes I’m an OKC Thunder fan. Yes each game is rigged in our favor. No there is nothing you can do about it. Yes Shai tries to trick the refs each possession (but somehow is shooting 54% while doing it). Yes Lu Dort is trying to injure the opposing team. Yes our coach is trying to teach the rest of the team to injure the opposing team as well. Yes I attend the games because I have nothing better to do in Oklahoma. Yes I was brought up in the Oklahoma education system so this all makes perfect sense. Any other questions losers?

[Antonio @ayyrod_]

Everybody better than Jokic til it’s time to be better than Jokic

[WADE 😁 @Its_Wade]

If we removed human emotion & the need to create a narrative for the MVP award every season, Jokic would be preparing to accept his 6th straight MVP award.

[Jason Kelce @JasonKelce]

This is interesting. It feels like it’s obvious that Frank retired because he was physically fighting through injuries and pain, and it got to a point that he no longer could play the game in an enjoyable, effective, or healthy way.
The whole purpose of a signing bonus is to be a guarantee up front that insures a salary irregardless of performance metrics, or most importantly injuries that could compromise your career in the future.

What makes this interesting is that Frank likely retired “voluntarily”, meaning, he wasn’t declared medically unfit to play by a doctor, which allows the team to ask for a prorated amount of his signing bonus back. Had he been medically deemed unfit to play football by a doctor before he retired, the team wouldn’t be able to recoup part of the signing bonus.

Let me say this first, if a player truly just retires without reason, or because they’ve lost the desire to play, I completely get and acknowledge teams should be able to recoup compensation when players don’t fulfill there contractual obligations and agreements.

However, Frank was known for being hurt and playing through injuries most players wouldn’t play through constantly. Broken foot, a torn pec, multiple knee injuries, back issues. There was always something, and I’m sure he was continuously dealing with multiple ailments to try and continue playing the game. His body clearly had deteriorated to a degree that made football no longer a viable option, physically, and probably mentally. In my opinion, the signing bonus is supposed to protect players from future physical ailments limiting their availability on the field, that’s one of the reasons you want more guaranteed money upfront.

So while I get that the team has a right to ask for money back, in the spirit of the agreement, I think it’s bullshit Frank is being asked to return money. This was clearly a player that the game had physically taken its toll on, and his body was clearly no longer holding up to the rigors of the NFL. It wasn’t just some player deciding he didn’t want to play anymore, it wasn’t that simple, and these signing bonuses are there to protect players from the inevitable injuries they incur on the field.

[StatMuse @statmuse]

Nikola Jokic this season:

— 27.9 PPG
— 12.7 RPG
— 10.7 APG
— 57/38/83%
— Leading NBA in RPG
— Leading NBA in APG
— Leading NBA in triple-doubles

Averaging more PPG, RPG, APG and TS% than his last MVP season.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

The stock market is up so we don’t have to prosecute pedophiles is one of the worst political messages i have ever heard.

[🍉LoZza🍉 @CocoaFox023]

You can't boycott something you're already attending you dumbass

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

I love how there's a separate Superbowl halftime show just for the pedophiles

[Brian Gaar @briangaar]

Crazy white boys, when they deliver, they DELIVER

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.

[Tyrese Haliburton @Hali]

Alex Pretti was murdered.

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

There are no penguins in Greenland. All Penguins live in the southern hemisphere except one species from the Galapagos Islands.

Perhaps you shouldn’t have dismantled the Department of Education so quickly.

[Gene Steratore @GeneSteratore]

At some point when reviewing plays, the league should consider adding a speed threshold for anything involving the element of time.

When you slow plays down to 1/100th the speed, it distorts what actually happened and makes it look like, in this case, Cooks possessed the ball for seconds prior to losing it. The game is not played in slow motion or frame by frame.

For a catch:

A) Secure control of the ball ✅
B) Two feet down in bounds ✅
C) After (a) and (b) have been fulfilled, clearly performs any act common to the game (e.g., extend the ball forward, take an additional step, tuck the ball away and turn upfield, or avoid or ward off an opponent), or he maintains control of the ball long enough to do so.

C is where there is a judgement needed since A and B are clearly met. Now consider this note to the rule:

If a player, who satisfied (a) and (b), but has not satisfied (c), contacts the ground and loses control of the ball, it is an incomplete pass if the ball hits the ground before he regains control, or if he regains control out of bounds.

Because Cooks did lose control of the ball when he contacted the ground and the ball never contacted the ground, it was ruled an interception by Denver.