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Jones suspended for one game

cincygrad

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Smoking some weed will get you 4 games.

Telling a cop you want him to die, screaming profanities at a downtown hotel during a drunken rampage, spitting on a jail employee and basically being a public menace will get you 1 game.

The NFL makes a lot of sense.
 

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Jones just needs to quit already.

However, you are right, the f'n rules make no sense.

In Colorado it is legal to smoke pot, unless you are a Denver Bronco or Colorado Rocky.
 

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The never ending roulette wheel that is the NFL league office.

They aren't even consistent with their punishments for drug use. Josh Gordon hasn't played in the league in 4 years because of repeat offenses. Yet LeVeon Bell only gets 3 game suspensions for repeat failed tests. I wonder what team Bell plays for?
 

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Jones just needs to quit already.

However, you are right, the f'n rules make no sense.

In Colorado it is legal to smoke pot, unless you are a Denver Bronco or Colorado Rocky.
Or any number of other companies that still require you to be drug free to work there.

Just because it's legal in a state does not mean that all business have to allow it, or stop testing for it.
 

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Or any number of other companies that still require you to be drug free to work there.

Just because it's legal in a state does not mean that all business have to allow it, or stop testing for it.

Agreed. Business can do whatever the hell they want.

But for a league that openly tolerates the use of very dangerous pain killers, its just not the best look to be suspending guys 4 games for pot. Particularly when you appear to go light on guys that are assholes in any number of other ways.
 

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Agreed. Business can do whatever the hell they want.

But for a league that openly tolerates the use of very dangerous pain killers, its just not the best look to be suspending guys 4 games for pot. Particularly when you appear to go light on guys that are assholes in any number of other ways.
Oh, no doubt. There's no set way on how/why suspensions are handed out.

I think that is something the Players Association should really look at, and push for, in the next CBA. They're not going to get the power away from Goodell, so the next best option is to push for a set schedule on suspensions so they are not arbitrary. He keeps the power, but he's limited in how much damage he can wield if he's bound by a set of rules on what each in fraction can lead to, in terms of suspension/fines, and the number of infractions which will correlate to the suspension/fine.

Another thing they should look at, in conjunction with the above, is making fines a % of the paycheck. For a rookie making 750K, a 100K fine is a huge amount. For a 10 year veteran making 12-15 million that year, 100K is a modest night out on the town. Again, placed in a schedule so that you know what to expect, and that things are set and not handed out arbitrarily.
 
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