I want to give all the rope smoking players a flyer.
Me too. Just as we give the alcohol swillers one.
In fact, to force some movement on this issue we should be encouraging wide-spread disobedience by the players, not adherence to the agreement. Some pics of that goody two shoes Peyton Manning smoking a bowl would be a great start.
Settings threshold of 15 might be necessary if it as really important that you detect someone smoked 3+ weeks ago but they test him every 3 days. If he as smoking, you would get a result of over 100.
Even if you think 15 is a reasonable policy, even though no other organization does, even one where that shit matters like pilots, you have to agree that the Nfl conducting 2 tests, one roughly accurate and one extremely accurate, and throwing out the results from the extremely accurate test is really stupid.
“The nflpa agreed to it” doesn’t make it good policy, it just means they are incompetent or were given something in exchange for letting this one slide.
Breaking news: The Steelers’ backfield just went full Gordon.
Fortunately for them, this is their first such incident, unlike Gordon. Still, this is horseshit no matter who is involved. If it blows the season, so be it, but they ought to be suspended for some number of games just for being this fucking stupid.
Not to worry, the NFL won’t punish Steelers. They’ve already said it’s up to the team.
We’re getting pretty ridiculous dragging this Gordon thing out. If he is suspended indefinitely with a year ban on applying for reinstatement, that means that he’s going to end up not being able to apply to reinstatement until well into the preseason or even regular season next year.
I imagine they’re trying to time the announcement to be the least damaging PR-wise way they can, and maybe they’re trying to get people to forget about the Ray Rice thing before they announce it, or they’re trying to announce it during the excitement of the first week, or something. But they’re really hosing Gordon, the team… and, well, fantasy players. A lot of people have keeper deadlines around now.
Maybe they’ll suspend him around 12:30 of the day of the first regular season game.
Or maybe they’ll realize their system is flawed and will not suspend him.
Perhaps you’d like to share this news with the rest of us, NFL.
He’s on double secret probation.
They’re forming a committee to decide on when they should make the decision to announce their decision.
One year suspension upheld.
The best part is he gets miss to all of next season’s training camp, unless his reinstatement is approved after 2014. Which, given the NFL’s foot-dragging…
What a bunch of corporate stuffed shirt assholes the NFL is. I urge a boycott of their crappy product.
Dickbags. I thought there’s no way they’re going to do the whole year after they drag it out like this.
Good Luck with that.
I’d be much more willing to stop watching the NFL and playing fantasy football over the concussions, health care, and dickishness of the owners than over the dumber parts of their drug testing policies. I have no sympathy for Gordon, who knew full well what he was getting himself into.
Josh Gordon, tragically irony-proof.
In other knucklehead news, Matt Prater, he of two prior DUI’s, was suspended for four games this year after having a beer while he was in the NFL’s alcohol treatment program.
The testing policies are stupid, as per my original arguments - the NFL is the only major organization that goes against the policies that are virtually universally accepted amongst companies and governments.
But even moreso, football is the only thing that keeps Gordon on track. He was following the program. It’s pretty clear that, despite being a dumbass and a pothead, he didn’t actually smoke weed, or his levels would be a lot higher. So the worst he did was hang around people who smoked weed and still abstain himself.
But now he’s cut off from football entirely. He’s cut off from the support structure of his team. If he’s as big a dumbass as he appears, a total seperation from football may knock him off track and have him slip into drugs and the shittiest lifestyle. You may be ending the career of one of the brightest young stars of your league.
All over a fucking bit of fucking secondhand smoke for some pot.
This is more or less the NFL saying “hey, you can’t wear green socks or you’re suspended for a year” and Gordon absentmindedly put on a pair of teal socks that he thought was blue but the NFL judged it to be green. And that every organization besides the NFL would judge to be blue, no less.
Yes, he’s a dumbass for putting on socks that are even remotely close to being in violation of that stupid policy, so you can say “it’s his own fault” all day. But it’s incredibly stupid and incredibly anal and doesn’t really matter. No real wrong was committed, and yet you may wreck the guy’s blossoming career over it. There’s no one that should feel good about this bullshit.
I really don’t think that is “pretty clear” at all. From the little bit I read, second hand smoke generally doesn’t enter and/or stay in the urine for very long or for that amount. Now I wasn’t privy to the information presented to the arbitrator or the response from the NFL, so I’m not saying it’s for sure he smoked it himself, just that saying it was “pretty clear” he wasn’t is an overstatement.
Plus you’re taking the word of Josh Gordon, who, let’s be honest, isn’t the most credible person in the world.
Josh Gordon would be the one ending the career of Josh Gordon, not the NFL. Let’s not pretend he’s some kind of innocent guy in all this.
It’s his own fault.
Outside of dickhead fans in Baltimore or Pittsburgh, I don’t think anyone feels good about Gordon being suspended for a year. But the person to blame, the person to be angry at, the person who is at fault, is Josh Gordon.