Conor Orr

3 weeks ago | si.com | Conor Orr

It’s impossible to find a perfect parallel for end-of-career Aaron Rodgers amid the constellation of future Hall of Fame quarterbacks who have changed teams at the end of their rope. Joe Montana’s arrival in Kansas City, for example, was celebrated like the moon landing. Had Tom Brady not arrived in Tampa during the earliest days of a pandemic, one would assume that he, too, would have been carted through town in something reminiscent of the popemobile. Perhaps Rodgers’s moment was two years ago.

4 weeks ago | si.com | Conor Orr

I have very little doubt in my belief that the best football players in the world reside in the United States. I have significantly less belief in the public’s fakakta belief that we are going to send a Dream Team of 30-something-year-old NFL players to the Olympics and dominate as if it were the 1992 iteration of Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Karl Malone.

1 month ago | si.com | Conor Orr

Every summer I make 100 bold predictions for the upcoming NFL season, and last year was a particularly fortuitous column.

1 month ago | si.com | Conor Orr

This is the kind of moment you have to savor, not only in the NFL but in life. It’s such a Halley’s Comet rarity that common sense prevails and some tangible bit of human creation survives the overwhelming squeeze of one unhappy billionaire after another. For weeks we have been led to believe that the tush push will not survive another humorless, profit-obsessed firing squad after a horrid stretch of time in which the Green Bay Packers’ anti-push proposal was worked and polished for a beheading.

1 month ago | si.com | Conor Orr

Creánlo o no, ya tenemos una nueva temporada. El anuncio del calendario en la NFL es uno de mis eventos favoritos del año, porque conocemos la lista de rivales de cada equipo desde hace meses y ¡apenas estamos descubriendo el orden de los partidos! Dicho esto, tiendo a entusiasmarme con juegos diferentes que la mayoría de las personas cuando dan su primer vistazo, porque ciertos puntos de presión en un horario pueden decirnos más sobre un equipo desde un punto de vista global.