This is seriously hilarious!!!!!!! Mayb Gordon needs some of this stuff ^^^...hell mayb I can try it lol
I agree, I don't think it has anything to do with "wanting" any player or organization to succeed. I think the facts of the situation must be pretty darn muddled. If it was as easy as his second sample being positive (or his first for that matter) this would be a pretty easy Appeal to be denied and Gordon would have been suspended positively for the year by now. 3rd stage is pretty cut and dry. The fact it is taking this long to get through the process means there must be some type of gray area surrounding the circumstances. They have been handing down suspensions all offseason, so I don't think it is scheduling issues either.
The recent departures from Pilot Flying J, the billion-dollar truck-stop company owned and run by Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, included the man who provided some profane and colorful quotes that were captured by an informant who made extensive recordings prior to the April 15, 2013 federal raid on the company. According to the Knoxville News-Sentinel, the company has fired V.P. of National Sales John Freeman. ?Hey this is a game,? Freeman allegedly said while being secretly recorded, according to the affidavit submitted in connection with the search warrant issued last April. ?We?re playin? f?kin? poker with funny money, and it?s liar?s poker with funny money because of all this cost-plus stuff. So, you know, I?m not, I don?t want to get into a moral or ethical conversation, because I believe that if a guy?s gonna butt-f?k you then we got to go to butt-f?kin? him harder. . . . Some people are tits and some people ass guys and some people want their discount managed through the system and some people like a big check. I mean, f?k, sell it to ?em the way they want to buy. And understand, the f?ker?s got the ability to know what the hell you?re doing to ?em. Okay?? Those quotes allegedly refer to the practice of preying on unsophisticated customers by shortchanging them on rebates to which they were entitled. The implications of Freeman?s firing aren?t clear. Last week, Pilot Flying J lawyer Aubrey Harwell cautioned against drawing conclusions from the departure of company president Mark Hazelwood. So we won?t, even if the conclusion potentially drawn is that the company fired Freeman in part because the company is confident that there?s nothing Freeman can say in court that could be used to prosecute or convict Haslam.
[h]TGIF Lounge Houndz[/h] *DRINK* Anyone else as sick of all things JF as I am yet :! *ROSE* :! Can't wait till training camp when there will be real news to pay attention to. With D. Washingtons(ARI) year long suspension handed down earlier. I'm not holidng out much hope for Gordon. *WALL* Funny of the day... Spoiler Spoiler Well its opening night and its that time again... Steals Bluez sign and hangs it on chair.... [h]GONE RACING[/h]
Oh, I don't know Will Hill is on his third suspension and he only got 6 games...there is ALWAYS hope!! *YES*
I hear about Gordon's speeding ticket and friends pot pocket and I cant help to think BYE! BYE!! If it is for just 2-6 games it will only be a matter of time before he F's up again. See what you can get for him and trade his arse. Someone will give you a 2nd rd. pick for him. Maybe even a 1st. I'm sorry guys but it's seriously time to start making the arrangements.
He will b getting more than 2-6 games.....he failed/didnt show up for a test and now this....trouble follows this kid.
Irish is spot on here. Right now the best the Browns would get is an extra UDFA pick. (Think about it . . . it will come to you.)
The thing is, if he had ANY value...the Browns would keep him. After all he was the best WR in the entire NFL last season with Weeden and Campbell throwing him the ball..WHY would you trade that away for a 5th round draft pick (which is really what his value is in his situation). No team is going to trade a 1st (or 2nd) round draft pick for a guy that is most likely going to miss this entire season, when he could use that draft pick to take what very well could be the "next" Josh Gordon without the headaches. There is no real value in Gordon, because he may never play another NFL game... <<<<That is a reality we all need to start getting used to. Even after he is suspended, he is still subject to those 10 tests per month. If he continues to fail tests, then he may never be reinstated..AND to add insult to injury, his discipline is at the forefront in this and with a year long suspension, his skill set can start to deteriorate rather quickly. The fact that he is riding in a car with a smoker is enough to know he isn't changing his lifestyle any time soon. Anyone that has been around smokers know that second hand smoke will give you a contact high and if you are getting that high, you are taking in the THC which is what they are tested for. The problem is the levels allowed, which is zero. They need to set a parameter of allowable and many of these guys will no longer have a failed test. Until that happens someone like Gordon, even if he isn't the one taking a drag will be subject to suspensions based on who he hangs out with.
I don?t really know how to intro this properly. Part of being a Browns fan, or a Cleveland sports fan in general, is sticking to a certain set of unspoken rules. I wanted to find a way to represent those rules in a slightly humorous way, so I started working on this list. See if you agree. 1. Thou Shalt Love The Browns With All Thy Heart, No Matter How Many Times They Break It. Part of being a Browns fan is total devotion to this team, no matter how little they may deserve it. There is a harshly enforced unspoken rule among Browns fans that we will all remain loyal to this team, regardless how many times they fail us. There is also a one ?I?m done with this fucking team? per conversation rule. We all get to that point where we just kind of snap for a minute in frustration with this team, some of us at least once a week. And that?s okay, most other Browns fans will let one breakdown go per conversation. If you bring it up again though, be prepared for your fanhood to be called in to question. 2. Thou Shalt Hate Pittsburgh and Baltimore, and Direct Your Children In The Same Hate. Ah football rivalries. Is there anything better in this game? As a Browns fan, it is your duty to despise those Squealers and the hated Ravens. With every bit of your soul, every fiber of your being, every ounce of your silent will, you have to devote it toward a burning desire to see those two teams fail, even more than you want to see the Brown win. And, as with all good religions, you need to raise your children to share the same rage towards those vile rivals of ours. 3. Thou Shalt Feel The Silent Dread Of Impending Doom. Look, if you?ve been a Browns fan for more than five minutes, you know exactly what I?m talking about. That inexplicable feeling deep in your gut that tells you something bad is going to happen. Experience had taught us that every good thing that comes our way in sports is only meant to build us up so we fall harder. We get LeBron, he leaves us on national television. We find a stud QB in Brian Hoyer, he tears his ACL. We get within a game of a Super Bowl, and that punk John Elway makes a deal with the devil and leads an impossible Drive to beat us. You KNOW these things are going to happen. Get used to that feeling in your belly, it?s not going anywhere. 4. Thou Shalt Curse Your Team, But Not Allow Others To. Part of being a Browns fan is learning to make the best of a bad situation. And, frankly, if you?ve been a Browns fan at any time in the past 25 years or so, its been a bad situation. Pretty much consistently. And that?s okay. It?s okay to get mad, to cuss, to scream, to swear off this team and everything having to do with it. It?s okay to make jokes about the players, coaches, ownership, all day long. Having a good sense of humor is pretty essential for surviving this Browns fans life. That being said, we let NO ONE bad mouth our team. Oh, you?re a Steelers fan? Get the hell out of here. We don?t want your idiotic opinions on football, and we damn sure don?t want to hear you start rambling about six rings. Talk trash when you drop your sexual predator quarterback. See what happened there? I?m writing an article kind of jabbing at my team, but the very idea of a fan from another team talking trash is a no go. 5. Thou Shalt Be Loud At the stadium, at the bar, at Applebees, on the couch, it doesn?t matter. Get loud. If you?re at FirstEnergy and you?re not screaming/barking like a lunatic, you are wrong. Look, Cleveland needs to be a scary place to play. So, if you?re at a game, the rest of us are counting on you to be deafening when the Browns are on defense. While it is kind of funny, and it is going to make you look like a crazy person, it also could very well rattle an opposing quarterback, or get an opposing lineman to jump. So, have some fun, put on a stupid dawg mask, and bark like you mean it. 6. Thou Shalt Always Remember I mean this both ways really. Good or bad, part of being a Browns fan is remembering the past. The thrilling come from behinds, the blowouts over the Steelers, the playoff games. And, in a weird way, we almost fondly remember the bad times. Now wait a second, I?m sure you?re making a face at me. I don?t mean fondly as in we enjoy that they happened, but rather that they kind of bond us together. I learned pretty early in my Army career that bad circumstances have a way of bonding people together, and years of suffering through horrible, tragic defeats and conspiracies, Browns fans share that together. Its almost like we?re a club. A club of war vets, all staring a thousand yards past any living person, into the realm of the Drive or the Move. We can still see it like it was yesterday. But don?t worry, that crazy man with a bone in his mouth in the Dawg Pound? He was there too. The North Remembers, and so do Browns fans. 7. Thou Shalt Hate Art Modell. Always. November 6, 1995. The day Art Modell announced that the Browns were moving to Baltimore. Yeah, I know he?s dead. And do you want to know something? I don?t care. I would usually avoid disrespecting a dead man like the plague, but Art is the exception. Why? Because fuck Art Modell, that?s why. I don?t need to tell fellow Browns fans what that scumbag did to us, so I won?t pick at a scab. I will say though, part of being a Browns fan is hating Art Modell. Even rotting in the ground Art. 8. Thou Shalt Be The Reason For The Browns I couldn?t think of a way to title this one with what I was thinking, so let me explain. This re-existence of the Browns, the expansion era Browns, is a dreadful thing. They have been consistently irrelevant, consistently shitty at football, and consistently boring. The Browns of old, we feel their losses because they always mattered. They made playoff runs that ended in the most painful way possible. But they mattered. These Browns now though, they only matter because of the fans. The Dawg Pound is the reason these Browns exist (literally), and this team sucks so much (historically) that the only thing that gives them any dignity is that they have arguably the best fan base on the planet. The Browns fans are unflappable. They are rowdy, loud, loyal and stalwart. We stand beside the team that shares the name with the team that we used to love. In some weird way, its the fans of this team that hold them up, not the other way around. You will never find a more backwards relationship between a team and its fans than the one in Cleveland. And its because of how great the fans here really are. 9. Thou Shalt Be Prepared For The Worst How many of you knew this was going to happen? Brian Hoyer will emerge as a potential star, then he?ll tear his ACL and be out for the rest of the season. Raise of hands. Okay, so maybe you aren?t psychic, but tell me you didn?t feel that SOMETHING was going to happen. It was too good to be true. A local kid, with a local coach, turning this crapstorm that has been the Browns for over two decades around? That?s Hollywood stuff man. Of course it couldn?t last. And I knew that. You knew that too, if you?re honest with yourself. Browns fans have come to just expect bad things to happen to this team, and we?re never left waiting long. 10. Thou Shalt Still Hope For Next Sunday/Next Season I don?t know why I still do it. I knew the Browns were going to be awful to watch with Brandon Weeden back at QB. But I still got that hope in my belly, thinking it might still work out somehow. ?Maybe he?ll stop sucking quite so badly? I said to no one in particular (I do my best thinking when I talk to myself), ?He can?t REALLY be as bad as I think he is?. He is though, and I know that. But I still hope against hope that this team will shock me, will shock the world. And when all hope for this season is gone, we?ll turn to next year. Maybe we can get our QB in the draft. Maybe we can get a few key free agents. We?ll wait, and we?ll hope. Welcome to being a Browns fan. Shawn is an Army Sergeant, husband, dad and lead writer/publisher for Dawg Pound Nation. You can follow him on Twitter @ShawnMStarr or @DawgPounded.
If u care bout yds then yes....I wuld care more bout TDs(pts) and there are other WRs I know u wuld take
I know that for the NFL in this case there is the "rule is a rule" perspective, but here's a question: if the league was going to write the rulebook today.... would marijuana use be a suspension trigger? None of the other leagues seem to pay it any mind, even if it is written in their rulebook, and certainly society at large doesn't view it as a crime, so ...... what do you think? With that backdrop, they can't be anxious to take their top reciever off the field for something they have written into the rules based on some archaic value system so clearly out of step with the world around them. Don't get me wrong, they have every right to do it, and Gordon should have avoided the problem too, but seriously, are we about to use Mary J to remove the leagues top reciever? It can hardly be considered a performance enhancing drug, it hurt no one, and is rapidly becoming legal, so why does it remain a tool for suspension & disciplinary action, when used outside of work? The league owes nothing to Gordon or the Browns, but it has to consider it's total fan base, and how out of step such action is with the people who make them successful. All I'm saying is the league may be open to hearing "any" mitigating arguments so they don't have to do what their rules say, and save face with an America that yawns when someone is caught with weed.
Really, you "as a Browns fan" want to argue that for 14 weeks Josh Gordon didn't do more with less than any other receiver in this league?
I just wanted to know if u thought he was the best WR in league? It was a yes or no answer.....not who the QB is/was?
