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beastson

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Here's what you have to remember anytime you get a guy with a history of drug offenses on your team...

You have to remember guys like Bengals RB Stanley Wilson, who decided he needed a drug fix just minutes prior to Super Bowl XXIII. He got so drugged up he couldn't play. The Bengals offense missed him, and they lost a close game.

More recently, another guy with drug, alcohol and other problems, Raiders center Barrett Robbins, also skipped out on his teammates just prior to a Super Bowl. Again, the day which should have been one of the greatest of his life, ruined.

Or how about old "Hollywood" Henderson, a guy with loads of talent playing for Tom Landry's Cowboys, but who wasted it all on drugs and wound up cut, a footnote to the Cowboys glory days.

And then there's guys like Sam Hurd, Travis Henry, Dexter Manley, Bam Morris and many others.

What do all these guys have in common? They were willing to give up everything they had spent their entire lives working for as well as letting down the teammates they'd fought so hard alongside, for what?

A temporary good feeling :wacko:

In Gordon, you've got a guy who's already made that same kind of choice, and more than once. And keep in mind that he would have done so with the full knowledge that the NFL was going to be watching him closely because of prior incidents. Just how poor does your judgment have to be to make that choice?

And that's the risk you take with every guy who fits this profile. That risk that one day, maybe at a time when you really need them, they'll choose drugs over football. Essentially valuing a temporary high over the culmination of everything they've worked, slaved and sacrificed their entire lives to achieve, and hanging their teammates out to dry in the process.

People, including many high profile athletes, have pissed away careers, families, friendships, money, heck, their whole lives just for one more chance at a temporary good feeling.

So point blank, if I want to build a team that can win a Super Bowl, I'm not about to spend millions of dollars on a guy who might go out during Super Bowl week - or even in the weeks before - and wind up not being available when I need him.

If you can't see how that's a bad investment, I doubt I can help you understand it.

But make no mistake, many an NFL owner understands it quite well.

LOL your argument is ridiculous and a bit dated. Do you know how many NFL players smoke weed before a game? Over half the league smokes weed. I'm not concerned about a player smoking weed you just have to make sure he isn't doing during the season because obviously he isn't good at masking it. But if your think Josh Gordon is the only one getting high during the season your sadly mistaken. Guess you wouldn't want Von Miller either lol

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LOL your argument is ridiculous and a bit dated. Do you know how many NFL players smoke weed before a game? Over half the league smokes weed. I'm not concerned about a player smoking weed you just have to make sure he isn't doing during the season because obviously he isn't good at masking it. But if your think Josh Gordon is the only one getting high during the season your sadly mistaken. Guess you wouldn't want Von Miller either lol

Fine example of stoner logic.

I'm sure the Panthers have a designated area just for the guys who want to go get high before a game :rolleyes:

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Fine example of stoner logic.

I'm sure the Panthers have a designated area just for the guys who want to go get high before a game :rolleyes:

I haven't smoked since my daughter was born and because my job does randoms. But I don't consider weed to be a drug, it's a fuging plant straight from the earth. It's not as bad as alcohol or cigarettes but gets a bad rap because a money controlling government can't figure out how to take its share of revenue it generates. Marijuana has never given anyone cancer and actually serves as a cure for a lot of diseases. Tobacco helped build this country and you can puff until your lungs collapse and kill everyone around you, but a guy smokes a little weed and he's a bad guy. So excuse my stoner logic. Pick up a psychology book and read up on weed vs some of the legal stuff. Id much rather my guy smoke weed vs some of that other poo that doesn't get flagged in a drug test.

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I haven't smoked since my daughter was born and because my job does randoms. But I don't consider weed to be a drug, it's a fuging plant straight from the earth. It's not as bad as alcohol or cigarettes but gets a bad rap because a money controlling government can't figure out how to take its share of revenue it generates. Marijuana has never given anyone cancer and actually serves as a cure for a lot of diseases. Tobacco helped build this country and you can puff until your lungs collapse and kill everyone around you, but a guy smokes a little weed and he's a bad guy. So excuse my stoner logic. Pick up a psychology book and read up on weed vs some of the legal stuff. Id much rather my guy smoke weed vs some of that other poo that doesn't get flagged in a drug test.

Opium grows straight from the earth too...guess you don't consider that a drug too.

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Kubiak just released three players for smoking weed...it matters wether it is safe or not...it matters to the league bc it is forbidden especially to those who are knee deep in the NFL drug program.

And they were...... And the Texans record is........

Exactly

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I am all in favor a trading a 3rd or 4th, (possibly adding a Norman in there) for a young veteran wide receiver than drafting one. As Panthers fans, we all know how difficult it has been to get a rookie receiver to do anything. Bringing somebody in that already knows what he is doing is a better option in my opinion. 

 

gets me thinking, I bet 89 is incredibly intimidating for rookie receivers. No wonder we haven't had a good rookie receiver in God knows how long. ( And don't you dare say David Gettis...2010 never happened.)

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