Anytime I come across a player that makes me take note, I add it to the list for the following season. It's always filled with guys that not a lot of people are talking about at the time. A couple guys that are coming on this season that fall in that category are James Conner and Tanoh Kpassagnon. I started tracking James a bit when he was still playing both sides of the ball and Tanoh caught my attention when I was doing reviews at the end of last year. The list for 2017 is already 4 pages.
He flashed on the screen when I was checking on a couple different players today. I noticed him in a Gardner-Webb game so I went back and watched the W. Michigan game again to see how he fared there. It was up and down quite a bit in both but if he can add some solid weight and keep his fluidity he could probably get a chance somewhere. Seems to like contact and has what appears to be decent instincts. That's off of a very limited viewing. Be interesting to see how he follows up his 2016.
Btw, not even close w Bitonio and Gordon....Bitonio isnt w the team cause hes working hard and getting injured playing the game....Gordon is working hard rolling a blunt and smoking it
I think Josh is a guy that had some growing up to do. His teammates can see that. They aren't dumb. Nobody really thinks of him as a "bad guy" or "cancer" in the locker room...If he can somehow prove himself to this staff (which would be miraculous in and of itself), that he really is a changed man, why not keep him on board? Especially if we lose TP. It's not like ANY of the 7 rookie WR's we brought in last year, stepped up. What is the worse that can happen? I think it's a long shot that he plays for Cleveland again simply because the Browns have been SO dysfunctional they probably would just rather avoid any potential future embarrassments from Josh Gordon....But there is no denying his talent, and if the Browns decide to give him another chance, I'm okay with it...I never thought he deserved all the suspensions in the first place...Nobody cares about weed anymore. They all smoke it anyway...
I was talking about the players, and the fact that weed is being decriminalized nationwide...It was supposed to be an obvious exaggeration.
Im not trying to rehash this conversation, but with the content in his system he could still be an air traffic controller or an Olympic athlete. The NFL's tolerance level is antiquated and he still yielded a positive test of the 2 samples.
Gentlemen, The issue isn't if marijuana should be legal. It isn't about acceptable test levels with IOC, the FAA or even the NFL. The issue is Josh knew what the NFL's policy on marijuana was - AND - what the consequences of testing positive (at whatever level) would be. And yet, he STILL lit up. Multiple times! He's got to be a special kind of stupid.
Or a policeman, or a Senator, or the President, or a surgeon, or a Pilot... Or an NFL player, since they changed their rules 2 months after the test...
You don't know that in any way shape or form...the level that was in his system has been proven to be possible from second hand smoke...He only "failed" one test out of hundreds taken weekly. If he had "lit up" he would have failed more tests by a much higher level. But, I have stated this so many times, I'm growing tired...cut the man so we can all move on. Let him go to a contender and win a Super Bowl ring...we don't need him on the Browns to continue losing games.
Every Browns fan is sick of Josh Gordon because he showed amazing promise, but can't seem to get out of his own way. The guy is harmless IMO. When it was verified that the amount of weed in his system would not have even prevented him from Olympic competition, I thought his suspension was absurd. I really see no reason to just kick him to the curb....We need talent...Frustrating as he has been for us all, Josh is a talent. I'm not saying lets all sweep everything away like nothing ever happened. Make JG earn it. If he's serious about his new found direction in life, he can gain the trust back day by day...This is truly it for him if you look at his suspension record. If he missteps again, he's gone for good... I would have a much different outlook on this if Coleman had performed like a #1 last year... It's a tough call for the Browns...If they cut bait, it's completely understandable, and if they give him another shot it's completely understandable IMHO...
IMO the big question with Gordon is "can he be the guy he was, on the field?" If he can then he has value, if he can't he's toast or toasted. The ire aimed at him comes from his having been the guy who actually was a league wide talent who literally burned out, and left us "high" and dry. It was a great buzz while it lasted, but can you go back? Not my call. It's Hugh's and he seems to be very much against it, so it's probably not an issue we will get to kick around for very long, if at all. The team may take a "bag of footballs" for him, or just cut him loose to totally avoid the controversy. I personally think that could be a mistake. He definitely has or at least had talent. If that still exists, and he can help the team, keep him, or showcase him enough to make all the pain worth something, in the form of a trade. Is he Alshon Jeffery? Talent wise, possibly more, but if his talent has burned out, he is just another mistake, and should be left to the Browns failed history. If he is still the talent he was 3 years ago, and not the bloated shadow of that, like when he came back last time, then let him earn his place here or earn a compensation guy for us, on his way out.
I do know that. He was dismissed from not one but TWO college programs because of weed. After that he was suspended from the NFL because of weed - more than once. If you choose to believe the latest suspension was due to 2nd hand smoke, that's on you. I will continue to believe he knew the consequences of having weed in his system and STILL chose to either smoke it or put himself in a position where it would end up in his system.
An estimated 40 million people in this country use it....just throwin that out there. I mean, we even have an emoji...*HIGH* Here's the thing. As long as you come into the NFL with a clean slate on the drug tests, you only get tested once a year, and you know when it's coming. It's not a hard thing to beat. I'd bet more than half the players in the league use marajuana. The only difference between Josh and most others, is he came in with red flags, and thus a different set of rules pertaining to drug testing...It's all bullshit IMO. If they tested them all in the manner they tested JG, the league would have to fold... Anyway, didn't he claim his problem was alcohol when he bailed out just before reinstatement last year?
