Around The NFL - 2014

[Diomedes]

25 years old with a 4 year old daughter who has cancer....Holy Christ.  Carrying a heavy load.

[MDS]

i think thats more marvin lewis than mike brown....brown is a cheap awful person.

lewis is a bad coach but a decent man. hes wasting a practice squad spot (which arent really important) on a bigger situation than football. good deal.

[Diomedes]

presumably the guy can contribute in practice though..it's not like he gets to just chill in the play room at the children's hospital all day.  he's still got to work.

[General_Failure]

Either way, the franchise comes off looking way better than the Dolphins who fired a scout who worked from home to take care of his wife with cystic fibrosis.

[Diomedes]

I'm no lawyer, but in the court of public opinion, this cat has a pretty good case.

[QB Eagles]

Either way, the franchise comes off looking way better than the Dolphins who fired a scout who worked from home to take care of his wife with cystic fibrosis.

I feel like there might be another side to that story and there might be a legitimate issue with having a scout who works from home, but this definitely doesn't seem right:

According to the letter, when the Dolphins adjusted their insurance policy in April, the only major change was that the team no longer covered cystic fibrosis medications.

[Diomedes]

I was thinking the same until I read the bit about three previous GMs had no problem with it.

[QB Eagles]

I was thinking the same until I read the bit about three previous GMs had no problem with it.

That didn't sway me because the three previous GMs were terrible.

But when there's a corporate insurance change that is pretty much targeting your specific family, that's a bit much.

[QB Eagles]

So the NFLPA and the league have been negotiating over HGH. Since a new drug policy is in the works, guys like Josh Gordon, Wes Welker, and Lane Johnson who were busted under the old policy might have their suspensions lifted or at least reduced.

I oppose everything about the NFL drug policy (I don't think they should test at all), but honestly I don't understand the logic of giving those guys free passes for breaking the rules that were on the books. The NFLPA is also trying to get amphetamines reclassified as substances of abuse rather than PEDs, and I don't understand the logic of that either. Clearly many athletes use speed to enhance their performance, and have for many years.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I don't understand many things about the NFL including their policies related to drugs and how they classify and punish for violations.

I would like to see the PEDs banned though. Get the HGH testing in there and get it going.

[rjs246]

We all like bigger faster better athletes. These athletes are all adults. Molly and weed do not enhance performance.

The NFL drug policy doesn't make any farging sense. Until it does, get rid of it all.

[SD]

I picked up Gordon in every fantasy league with the exception of CF because someone is a bigger loser than me and beat me to the punch. The threshold for weed that the NFL tests for is far below what other leagues test for like the Olympics.

Among other things, the two parties are negotiating a new threshold for the banned substance in marijuana. Currently, it's 15 nanograms per milliliter. Gordon's "A" test was 16 ng/ml, and his "B" confirmation test was 13.6, a source told cleveland.com.

According to Albert Breer of NFL Network, the sides are considering a 50 ng/ml threshold for the "A" test -- the same as Major League Baseball and the military. In the Olympics, it's 150 ng/ml.

It's awesome we're still punishing people for smoking weed.

[Geowhizzer]

Dallas' defense is so bad, they gave up a touchdown before they even saw the field.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Another big injury

Clowney out with an mcl injury for several weeks

[PhillyPhreak54]

Clowney surgery tomorrow out 4-6wks