PoeticG Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 It utterly sickens me that they can do what they are doing to Josh. But, Tom Brady gets his suspension lifted and goes scot free. Josh's limit under which he failed that drug test only for them to raise the level to that to which he would have passed only to retroact his test to suspend him 10 games anyway. Then for that to accumulate his latest test which suspends him for a year... the Browns season was over when that happened. I feel the punishment for Josh Gordon is unfair not only to the Browns Organization but to Josh and the Fans as well. I want his suspension rescinded immediately.. it's only fair in light of this latest ruling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Bone Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 Poor Puffy. Life just isn't fair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoeticG Posted September 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/josh-gordon-will-flash-ever-find-his-way-20150831 Josh Gordon: Will 'Flash' Ever Find His Way? Suspended for all of 2015 for violations of the NFL's substance abuse policy, Cleveland's star wide receiver plays the waiting game By John B. Thompson August 31, 2015 Share Tweet Share Comment Email josh gordon Missing in Action: Josh Gordon won't take the field for the Browns in 2015. Scott Cunningham/Getty Cleveland's Josh Gordon might be the most talented wide receiver in the NFL, but he won't be on the field this season. He's not even allowed near team facilities. When Gordon entered the NFL in 2012, the NFL placed him under strict observation after Baylor and Utah both cut him for smoking marijuana. Once he touched turf, Gordon displayed tremendous promise, tying for second in touchdowns among rookie wideouts in 2012, leading the entire league in receiving yards in 2013 and burning defenders so badly he earned the nickname "Flash." Sidebar dez bryantDez Bryant: The Survivor » About that 2013 season: Gordon missed the first two games after testing positive for codeine, a development portending disaster. Since then, his career has disintegrated into endless drug tests and violations. In 2014, he lost ten games – reduced from an initial season-long ban – for smoking marijuana and received probation after a DWI violation. This winter, he was suspended for the 2015 season after four drinks with his teammates and one of his coaches on a flight to Las Vegas. "I thought that the league-imposed restriction on drinking had expired at the end of the regular season," he wrote in an open letter in January. "Upon landing, I received the all-too-familiar notice by phone that I was to report to a testing location within four hours. I failed the test, obviously, and the rest is history." While on its face, Gordon's tale seems like another sob story about squandered potential, it actually points to the injustice of the NFL's draconian drug policy. Despite floundering in scandals regarding what players do to others (concussions, domestic violence), the NFL intensely polices what players do with their own bodies to the point of absurdity. Gordon had to pee in a cup 180 times in his first two years in the league. He passed all but a few of those tests; last season, the one busting him for THC registered barely 16 nanograms per milliliter, almost ten times lower than the World Anti-Doping Agency's benchmark of 150 nanograms but still unacceptable by NFL standards. But things are easing up. Last year, the players union achieved a landmark revision of the NFL's drug policies, increasing the threshold for marijuana tests and reducing penalties for violations. "The main achievement was certainty: The penalties were made consistent, there are clearer benchmarks for getting out of the drug program and there's more transparency regarding the science," says NFL Players Association spokesman George Atallah. "The players also moved the focus to getting players support rather than receiving punishment." The new policies saved Gordon's 2014 season, but they couldn't save him from the mistake of drinking alcohol on a plane to Vegas. Still, Gordon has said and done the right things on a public apology tour, even voluntarily checking himself into rehab last summer, where he was told to talk to a horse. "It's definitely some hippie shit," he told ESPN The Magazine. This offseason, he trained with NFL legend Randy Moss to stay in game shape. Despite Gordon's public flagellation and the tenuous evidence for his suspensions, Cris Carter ("I really think that the only thing that's going to help the kid is if they release him") and Charles Barkley ("Josh Gordon is going to die if he keeps going on this road he's going") have already written him off as a lost cause. Gordon, however, insists he has no real problem, and no one has yet proven otherwise. "If I have a 'problem,' it is that I am only 23 years old – with a lot left to learn," Gordon wrote in his open letter. "And I truly believe that what I am going through right now will only make me stronger. I believe that my future is bright." Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/josh-gordon-will-flash-ever-find-his-way-20150831#ixzz3kiYR3SND Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miktoxic Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 ?????? gordon has been popped with hot piss more times than you've had a girl in your lap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoeticG Posted September 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 D bone you are a douchebag my friend. Anyone that follows the Browns and knows ANYTHING about the Browns and Gordon's situation should know better than to open their belittling cocksucker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 It utterly sickens me that they can do what they are doing to Josh. But, Tom Brady gets his suspension lifted and goes scot free. Josh's limit under which he failed that drug test only for them to raise the level to that to which he would have passed only to retroact his test to suspend him 10 games anyway. Then for that to accumulate his latest test which suspends him for a year... the Browns season was over when that happened. I feel the punishment for Josh Gordon is unfair not only to the Browns Organization but to Josh and the Fans as well. I want his suspension rescinded immediately.. it's only fair in light of this latest ruling. D Bone beat me to it- Life isn't fair. Those are the rule on dope. If you think Josh didn't very clearly, about 5 times have the restriction he was under explained to him- well, he's dumber than a box of rocks. Of course, having a few drinks on a plane during the off season and getting suspended for a year because of it is monumentally unfair. Josh has had a ton of chances before that to fly right though. I didn't know the rule is the same as a kid saying the dog ate my homework. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoeticG Posted September 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 Just listen, he passed nearly 180 piss tests. The league is being unfair in it's discipline of Josh Gordon, period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Bone Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 Don't you have a Trent poster to whack it to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoeticG Posted September 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 To suspend him for an entire YEAR for one misunderstood flight? That's harsh by any standards. He restrained from smoking or drinking anything the entire season... it was a misunderstanding. He wasn't smoking crack and getting popped fucking prostitutes, it was a couple drinks with teammates and coaches celebrating the season. So had the Browns won the Superbowl Josh would have been suspended for having a glass champagne? It's ridiculous and if you understand this and continue to side with the NFL on this then you are also draconian and OFFSIDES~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoeticG Posted September 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 Good day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tour2ma Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 D Bone beat me to it... I was going to say he's gotten quicker since he got his new shirt... but then I realized he hasn't figured out that you can reverse a mirror image with nearly any Photoshop type software... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombo Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 I'm with you, Poe. Free Josh. Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miktoxic Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 Good day. microphone drops...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miktoxic Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 love gordon. someone must have thrown a glass of dumb on him in his teens and he hasn't been able to wash it off yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Bone Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 I was going to say he's gotten quicker since he got his new shirt... but then I realized he hasn't figured out that you can reverse a mirror image with nearly any Photoshop type software... lol!! Quick like Bengi I am. I'm all natural my friend, no photoshop needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 Just listen, he passed nearly 180 piss tests. The league is being unfair in it's discipline of Josh Gordon, period. Well, if I drive home from work sober 180 times, and on #181 a cop pulls me over after I drank a quart of Margaritas at the local bar, guess what? I'm going to the slammer. Yeah- the number of tests is absurd- but the NFLPA let the league get away with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 Gordon quit his last game with the Browns. Or did you all forget his shit performance? Fuck him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoeticG Posted September 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 That's all good and dandy hoorta but after serving your time they are not going to suspend you from work for an entire year.. that's extreme. Gordon served his time last year like a soldier for the marijuana, cut him some slack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Bone Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 That's all good and dandy hoorta but after serving your time they are not going to suspend you from work for an entire year.. that's extreme. Gordon served his time last year like a soldier for the marijuana, cut him some slack. To me it's like the 3 strikes law. Yea it sucks he went away for life for stealing a t-shirt from Wet Seal, but had he of not stole that car and then robbed that mini-mart, he wouldn't have gone away for life........... Exaggerations I know, but it gets my view point across. I root for the guys who are smart enough to follow the rules, and thankfully, there are 53 of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaconHound Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 I'd like to see Josh playing but unfortunately the burden of proof is easier to prove to a judge when multiple drug tests have been failed and there is no "Braun chain of custody" issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miktoxic Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 if this were the real world maybe he would get some slack working for free range people. problem is the NFL is a entity owned by people that have certain rules and free range people are old hippes that have no clue. just like the military. just like mcdonalds. when you go to work at the ginsu knife factory and show up late 2 days a week for the 2 months you've been there then they'll put you on notice: don't show up late again or you're fired. well josh has been showing up late since someone told him he could run fast, jump high and catch a ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombo Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 Ginsu Knife Factory ... changing my Fantasy team name. Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Couch Pulls Out Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 D bone you are a douchebag my friend. Anyone that follows the Browns and knows ANYTHING about the Browns and Gordon's situation should know better than to open their belittling cocksucker. You opened your cocksucker. So are you saying you don't know anything about the Browns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canton Dawg Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 Gordon quit his last game with the Browns. Or did you all forget his shit performance? Fuck him. This is my biggest bitch about Gordon, I have a feeling he doesn't want to be here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted September 4, 2015 Report Share Posted September 4, 2015 Gordon doesn't play like a Brown, isn't smart enough. And, he's had mulitple offenses. Free him from football, because he'd rather smoke, etc, and doesn't do self-discipline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasAg1969 Posted September 4, 2015 Report Share Posted September 4, 2015 "If people would just pay me to stop robbin' 'em, I'd stop robbin' 'em"-Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid "Gordon, however, insists he has no real problem, and no one has yet proven otherwise." Funny thing is they do want to pay him for not using and he just doesn't get that. Better go to JF's rehab center where they teach you different, because apparently he can't hear it from the horse's mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7moses7 Posted September 4, 2015 Report Share Posted September 4, 2015 if u do the crime you will have to do the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USFBrown Posted September 4, 2015 Report Share Posted September 4, 2015 Jesus Christ. Didn't think it could get any worse with PoG but he's so fucking delusion. Just makes you realize that we live in a world with crazy "men" who have lustful infatuations with other dudes. He's of the breed that everyone should get a trophy. Fuck responsibility. Blame someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unsympathetic Posted September 4, 2015 Report Share Posted September 4, 2015 Gordon should be smoking ZERO weed. Not some. Not "just a couple celebratory bong hits" - NONE. I have zero sympathy for Gordon - and I don't think he's physically capable of being the "The Josh Gordon" ever again. Bowe can't separate from me, let alone actual NFL cornerbacks - and Gordon won't be able to, either. They should have cut him a long time ago. And I think Gordon will get cut next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted September 4, 2015 Report Share Posted September 4, 2015 I think POG craves attention at any cost. or...something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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