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Here’s a good article about the situation as well.
Under what authority is the NFL threatening suspension? For what? There has been absolutely no violation of any league policy by any player. I don’t do it often, but I’m going to give a lot of credit to Soup. From the jump, almost the moment Goodell took over as commish, Soup blasted him and said he was going to destroy the league. Wow, I don’t think Soup has ever been, could be more, over will ever be again, as right as he was on this one.
It turns out having a lawyer who doesn’t know football write all the agreements pertaining to football isn’t such a good idea is it NFLPA. They were so worried about the dollars that they forgot to even look at anything else.
It turns out having a lawyer who doesn’t know football write all the agreements pertaining to football isn’t such a good idea is it NFLPA. They were so worried about the dollars that they forgot to even look at anything else.
So weird….its almost like lawmakers writing laws and having no clue what every day citizens go through dealing with the law.
Hue Jackson is a loser.
This just came out:
PITTSBURGH — Steelers player rep Ramon Foster used the news of Le’Veon Bell’s three-game NFL suspension over missed drug tests as a chance to foreshadow the players’ bigger fight with the NFL about four years from now.
“There are bigger issues than pot,” Foster said.
In fact, Foster is urging players to save money now in preparation for a lockout with the NFL over a Collective Bargaining Agreement that will expire after the 2020 season.
“Hit them in the pocket. That way, money always talks. For us to do that, we have to save on our end. We can’t be just blowing money and not realize what’s coming, especially with guys coming into the league now.”
He is disenchanted by several issues with the drug policy, including the unnecessary image hits NFL players face that players from other sports leagues don’t and an appeal process that is often handled by a sole arbitrator, resulting in varied rulings. Bell’s appeal reduced his suspension from four to three games last week.
But insurance, post-career care and revenue are more pressing, which means the players must be willing to sit out games in 2021, Foster said.
“Hit them in the pocket. That way, money always talks,” Foster said. “For us to do that, we have to save on our end. We can’t be just blowing money and not realize what’s coming, especially with guys coming into the league now.”
In 2011, the Steelers were the only team to vote against the proposed CBA that eventually passed before the season.
Foster said players around the league must be more prepared after many faced too much financial debt to potentially miss games nearly six years ago.
“It’s coming. They’ve hired certain people on their legal team, the NFL has, and we have to be the type of players and union that’s not borrowing money from banks and stuff like that to survive a lockout, a strike,” Foster said. “That can’t happen this time around. We have to be smarter this time around because there are a lot of things we’re going to be fighting for and a lot of things they are going to want and we’re going to want, too.”
Drug testing has affected the Steelers’ on-field product. Wide receiver Martavis Bryant is suspended for the season for multiple failed or missed tests, and Bell had to miss up to three tests to earn a four-game ban.
Players felt in the dark about Bell’s looming suspension over the last month. Quarterback Ben Roethlisbegrer said “we don’t always know what’s going on” with the process and the NFL often does things that “none of us have answers for.”
The way Foster sees it, other sports leagues keep these player issues in-house but NFL players are “all over ESPN, Fox, the whole nine” when one fails a test.
“Every situation has been different. Not one person has had the same penalty,” said Foster about drug testing suspensions and appeals. “It’s always how the person is feeling who’s handing down the execution. It needs to be refined. It can’t just go through one person.”
Freedom!!!
“Every situation has been different. Not one person has had the same penalty,” said Foster about drug testing suspensions and appeals. “It’s always how the person is feeling who’s handing down the execution. It needs to be refined. It can’t just go through one person.”
And this part of it is absolutely infuriating. I’ve railed endlessly about the Josh Gordon situation, and how absurd, heavy-handed, unfair, and complete farcical bullshit the whole thing really is. Compare that the Le’veon Bell situation. He already had a DUI/drug suspension under his belt, which means he’s in stage 2 of the substance abuse policy. He missed 3, not 1, not 2, but 3!!! drug tests this year that led to his 2nd suspension. Yet after his appeal, he not only got handed another 4 game suspension instead of the 6 that were possible, but it was reduced to 3 AAAAAAAAAND he stays in the same level of the susbtance abuse policy that he’s currently in. Meaning, if he gets popped for a 3rd time, he’d STILL only be facing a 4 game ban instead of the possible 10 game ban that would apply to a person in stage 3.
The whole thing is a joke. It’s inconsistent and varies wildly on a case-to-case basis, and whatever Goodell says goes, end of story.
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