Here is why the NFL is rushing to get the new drug testing deal done.

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                                                      Roger Goodell

Clearly fans of any team with a player that has been suspended are excited about the possibility of getting those players back. But understand that the NFL and NFLPA have been working on a new drug policy for more than 3 years. What is the rush go get it done now?

Let me say that I have no inside information about the issue but I do think I know what is going on. And we will know if I am right by what is in and is not in the new policy.

Here is what I believe is driving the NFL to try to get a new deal—As I said here several weeks ago, the new pressure on the NFL is the different results of the Gordon test.

I have a feeling that the NFLPA is pressuring the NFL to get this new deal done or it will explore the cancellation of the entire drug testing program because of unreliable test results. There is no excuse or explanation for a single urine sample yielding two so different results. That is a threat to the weed testing at a minimum or the entire testing policy at a maximum.

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I have a critical question for WR Josh Gordon

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Josh Gordon’s camp is now claiming that the failed test was due to 2nd hand smoke. My question is this: Are you really so needy to be around your peeps that smoke pot that you are willing to throw away your NFL career to stay with them?

I have said before that Gordon may be too stupid to be a Brown. But that was when we all assumed that the failed test was due to him smoking weed. If (and excuse me if I don’t believe a repeat drug abuser) the 2nd hand claim is true, he looks even dumber! If that is the case, not only is he giving up millions of dollars, he is letting down a city that has had very little to celebrate over the last 50 years.

If he is suspended indefinitely I doubt we will ever see him back in the league. Nothing in his background gives me any hope he can stay clean for 12 months and be re-admitted to the NFL. I expect that he will fade away in a cloud of blue-gray smoke.… Read more at FryingPanSports

Josh Gordon is too stupid to be a Brown.

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Over the holiday weekend, Josh Gordon was ticketed for speeding. Given his current issues with the league, that is not smart. But when the policeman was at the vehicle, he smelled pot. That is just plain stupid.

Gordon’s NFL career is at risk. It is currently spinning around like a leaf caught by the wind suspended by a single strand of a spider’s web. It is clear that he cares more about his friends and smoking weed than he does about his career or his team. That is unacceptable. He clearly does not get what it takes to be a professional athlete. There are rules and to be in the league you have to abide by them. That is true even if the NFL is duplicitous in its weed policy. It hold NFL players to a measure 10 times more strict than the Olympics at the same time it is testing to see if weed can help players recover from concussion syndrome.

He could well be suspended not for a year but for life. He will go back to Houston and likely run again with the same guys that got him into trouble in … Read more at FryingPanSports