too soon for an NFL thread?

[puckhead]

@AdamSchefter
Seahawks CB Brandon Browner is facing a one-year suspension from NFL for violating substance-abuse policy, per NFL sources. He has appealed.

I wonder if that's the same Roids and before or different Roids.

 

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Maybe BB should come back to the CFL for a year and play a little CB for the Stamps?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

RGIII just got hit in his RG II.

wonder if Shanahan shows this clip over and over again in film session this week

 

[jstewismybastardson]

*chuckle* ... Im not sure if he knows what he did there

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[jstewismybastardson]

goofy

Browner’s predicament possibly arises from unfair implementation of substance-abuse policy
Posted by Mike Florio on November 26, 2013, 10:57 PM EST

The details remain scant regarding the proposed one-year suspension of Seahawks cornerback Brandon Browner. Erroneously reported by the league’s own network as a violation arising from the use of performance enhancing drugs, the suspension arises from the substance-abuse policy.

But a one-year suspension — technically, a permanent banishment with the ability to apply for reinstatement after one year — applies only to players who already were in Stage Three of the substance-abuse program. While no one is talking about the specifics of the Browner case, we have a theory. Or a hypothesis. Or something.

When players are cut by NFL teams, they remain subject to the testing requirements of the substance-abuse policy. If they don’t show for the tests (after all, they’re no longer NFL employees), they become subject to the various steps and stages of the substance-abuse program.

It’s wrong and it’s unfair, but that’s just the way it is, as agreed to by the NFL Players Association.

Browner played for the Broncos in 2005. Cut in 2006, Browner surfaced the following year in the CFL. Unless Browner violated the substance-abuse policy enough times in one-plus year with the Broncos to land in Stage Three, there’s a chance he fell victim to the unfair expectation that players who have been dumped by the NFL still have to submit to NFL-implemented drug tests, and that he returned to the NFL in 2011 with a lifetime membership in Stage Three.

That’s how Stage Three works. Once a guy enters Stage Three, he never gets out. And if he makes one false move while in Stage Three, via a positive test or a failure to show up for a test, he’s done for at least a year.

If that’s what happened with Browner — if he landed in Stage Three because he didn’t show up for drug tests when he wasn’t an NFL employee — his suspension needs to be scrapped. And if the NFL won’t reverse the suspension, Browner needs to load up the legal cannon and aim it at anyone and everyone.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

"completely clear his name" is a bit much lol

Dave Softy Mahler ‏@Softykjr 4m Source close to Browner couldn't speak on record. I asked if there was more to the story: "Oh yeah."

Dave Softy Mahler ‏@Softykjr 4m Just spoke to source extremely close to Brandon Browner: "There's a ton of it (info) coming out that will completely clear his name."

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Hopefully cornerback Perrish Cox rented instead of buying in Seattle.

The Seahawks signed Cox on Tuesday after he worked out for the team in the wake of Walter Thurmond’s four-game suspension for violating the league’s substance abuse policy. With Thurmond out and Brandon Browner injured (and appealing a suspension of his own), it seemed Cox would be part of the team’s plan to deal with their thin ranks on the corner.

Call it buyer’s remorse or something else, but Cox won’t be part of that plan. The NFL’s daily transaction report brings word that the Seahawks waived Cox on Wednesday, which makes for about as short a stay that any player could have with a team.

The Seahawks have promoted defensive back DeShawn Shead from the practice squad to take Cox’s place on the roster. Shead has spent the last two seasons in the organization, spending most of his time on the practice squad







Former 49'er Perrish Cox at the airport leaving Seattle: "Hey man ... wheres my 49ers team issued ipad ... you know the one with the team playbook"


meanwhile:

 

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The Lions are taking the Packers to the woodshed...

 

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Lions 40, Packers 10 is the final - WW is doing the happy turkey dance.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

The Lions' fans may not have had any luck winning SBs but man... you can't really complain when you've gotten the chance to watch BOTH Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson suit up for your team.

Two of my all-time favourites.

 

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The Lions' fans may not have had any luck winning SBs but man... you can't really complain when you've gotten the chance to watch BOTH Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson suit up for your team.

Two of my all-time favourites.

Eddie Murray (good Canadian kid) and longtime placekicker for the Lions was another favourite of mine.

 

[Vadered]

Raiders are currently in the process of blowing a two score lead.

Well, they've already blown the lead, technically. Now they are failing to recover from blowing the lead.

Assholes can't even beat Dallas.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Raiders are currently in the process of blowing a two score lead.

Well, they've already blown the lead, technically. Now they are failing to recover from blowing the lead.

Assholes can't even beat Dallas.

Your anti-Cowboys agenda intrigues me. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

 

[Comeds]

NBC being funny. Playing a The Cranberries song heading to a commercial

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Lions 40, Packers 10 is the final - WW is doing the happy turkey dance.

 

[dare2be]

Steelers are done like Thanksgiving dinner.

 

[elocomotive]

Geno Smith looks T(U)RRRRIBLE.

He looks at one wideout, throws whether he's covered or not, and can't even put that on the mark. His rating is 8.3 for the 1st half. Yikes.

 

[IndyAndy]

It's Adam Vinatieri over the Titans at halftime, 12-7

 

[IPostedWhat]

Texans were up 17-7 at halftime over the Pats, so naturally the score is now 17-14, and the Pats are threatening to score once again.

 

[IPostedWhat]

I'm starting to think the Pats play like shit on purpose in the 1st half, just so they can come out in the 2nd and put together another comeback win.

Pats now winning 28-24.