News: Gregory Suspended for a year

[erod]

A no good player who had 1 sack already and numerous pressures in a couple games were all our other scrubs and no names had 0 in a year.

He's a guy.

 

[erod]

20 years from now football players will probably not have this worry but today he does and he put smoking weed over the team.

I hope he gets it sorted out for himself in the future.

Is there any chance the suspension gets reduced?

20 years from now, litigation from concussion cases and whatnot will have made football extinct.

 

[Teague31]

Mara: these cowboys are a real problem

Goddell: no problem. I'm on it

 

[Zordon]

Such a benevolent dictator...

 

[TwoCentPlain]

Well, I guess the Cowboys don't have to cut anyone to make room for Cooper.

 

[BRoni]

NBA television ratings are putrid. Same for baseball for national games. A playoff game in baseball gets lower ratings than preseason NFL games.

You now see the ratings dropped 8 percent this year for the NFL. Off the field stuff is chasing people away. The thuggery, the women abuse, the PEDs, the drugs, the illicit behavior. Stuff just like this. The league is better served to tighten its rules, not loosen them.

Because people just discovered and started using drugs? NBA ratings were great in the 80's and I've heard some funny stories about Larry Bird and his teammates partying and smoking weed with rock stars of the day.

EDIT: The same can be said for the rest of what you said too. Nothing is really any different these days except that the media is everywhere.

 

[links18]

NBA television ratings are putrid. Same for baseball for national games. A playoff game in baseball gets lower ratings than preseason NFL games.

You now see the ratings dropped 8 percent this year for the NFL. Off the field stuff is chasing people away. The thuggery, the women abuse, the PEDs, the drugs, the illicit behavior. Stuff just like this. The league is better served to tighten its rules, not loosen them.

Nobody really cares if players smoke weed.

 

[Stash]

A real downer in a week that, to this point was full of good news...

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

Free roster spot

 

[MRV52]

He's a guy.

I sure hope he is a guy he has enough on his plate at the moment.

 

[T-RO]

Another uneducated person on this board. Amazing. If it was as much of a disease as stubbing your toe, the amount of people in treatment centers wouldnt be as high as it is. In your country or mine. Id love to see you watch a person detox from heroin and tell me its not a disease.

Let's not devolve into that old debate.

I'm a recovered alcoholic. Was I victim of disease or was I responsible? The answer is...BOTH.

 

[SultanOfSix]

Hypocrisy through and through! The whole premise behind these drug tests were to insure that playes weren't enhancing their performance unfairly by using drugs. How in the hades does marijuana enhance a players ability to play football?

You can be a drunken fool and it is perfectly acceptable, in fact, the stories about Bobby Lane and Max McGee playing drunk through a championship game are now a part of NFL lore. An owner can go out and get totaled on scotch and the next day, the money generated from hard fought games keep rolling in. But let one of these players smoke a little pot and their career is in danger. It just doesn't make sense.

It's simple. There are no corporations that create various brands of pot (like alcohol) and use revenue generated by selling it to buy advertising space for the NFL directly or indirectly. In other words, it's about money.

 

[manster4ever]

Such a benevolent dictator...

Goodell is such a POS. Bans the guy from the facility. To what end? Hate Goodell with a white hot passion.

 

[Doomsday]

Whatever happened to masking agents??? I have buddies that got tons of jobs using those! Lol

I believe the NFL does a much more in depth test that includes looking for masking agents and diluted urine.

When I was younger I passed a test after smoking weed 2 days prior to the test by drinking a gallon of water an hour before the test. Where as in the NFL I would of failed for having diluted urine.

 

[MRV52]

Goodell is such a POS. Bans the guy from the facility. To what end? Hate Goodell with a white hot passion.

Gregory should hang out with Goodell and Mara since he is not allowed around the Cowboys.

 

[BRoni]

It's simple. There are no corporations that create various brands of pot (like alcohol) and use revenue generated by selling it to buy advertising space for the NFL directly or indirectly. In other words, it's about money.

Miller Lite, the official beer of the Dallas Cowboys! Also more dangerous than cannabis.

 

[drawandstrike]

Goodell is such a POS. Bans the guy from the facility. To what end? Hate Goodell with a white hot passion.

Guy's caught driving drunk like Floyd are still employed and still playing football. This league is fast becoming a joke.

 

[RamziD]

Do you have evidence of the bipolar diagnosis?

He said he has bipolar

 

[Doomsday]

I don't smoke, never really did.

I don't think they should get suspended for this though.
States are/have been making it legal.

It's bs.

Part of me agrees with you, however, the other part of me believes if I was investing millions of dollars in some one, I might want them to stay free of drugs. The are paying these guys to be in top physical and mental shape, not sure weed is real conducive to that.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Rules are the rules, but its a shame that this is happening to him over something that should be legal and allowed. I haven't heard any reports of him actually doing anything harmful to himself or anyone else.

what if the rule is stupid?