News: Gregory Suspended for a year

[The Quest for Six]

Why release him? They don't have to pay him while he's suspended.

You cut your loses and move on, he's failed at least 5 drug tests now and he's going to be a year out of football, not allowed around the team complex, he'd rather smoke the weed instead of making millions playing football, Blackmon was never heard from again in Jacksonville and Gordon is on his way out of Football in Cleveland. Gregory is done, time for the organization to move on!

 

[Broges74]

That's six failed/missed tests in two years.

And some WR in NE is drinking his life away. Smoking weed isn't doing 1/10 of the damage to Randy as Alcohol is doing.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Dont think he can do that.

Why not, Tom Brady did and then continued to play.

 

[Chuck 54]

no surprise, his career is over, Dallas should just release him and move on, he won't go six month's without failing another test, he's an addict!

If his latest offense was the missed test and not a positive test, then I think he does indeed have a chance, especially if motivated by the taste he got of things the past couple of games. On ESPN, they say he is actually "banished" by the NFL. One year from now, less sixty days, (so ten months), he can apply and begin the process to make his case for reinstatement.

 

[The Natural]

Well, he was released by the Giants and will likely never kick again.

He was released by the Giants because of the shitstorm created by the non-NFL media in the weeks following the opening of the season. Notice those two chumps Joe Buck and Troy didn't say a peep about Josh Browns suspension for week 1 but couldnt stop lecturing us all about Hardy last year.

 

[Machete]

I pray your kids nor your family ever battle addiction. Id love for you to visit a rehab facility to see how difficult having an addiction is. Would you have told KC to drop Eric Berry when he had cancer? Probably not. Addiction is a disease. You are uneducated and really need a reality check.

Though I see your point of view, the comparison between addiction and cancer is ridiculous and I can sum it up in one word...choice. Addicts chose to start on that path, cancer survivors and victims did not make that choice.

 

[The Natural]

Why not, Tom Brady did and then continued to play.

I'm sure someone else in this thread will be able to tell you why.

 

[Broges74]

That's six failed/missed tests in two years.

Lots of other things he could have done wrong. What a crock of ****.

 

[erod]

Two of his suspensions were missed tests, not failed test. The NFL treats them the same. The issue at hand is they said he missed a test due to him being in the rehab facility.

If that in fact is the case, I hope the Cowboys take this to court.

The problem is, he went into rehab right before a test to avoid taking it. His motives were obvious.

 

[Zordon]

Gregory has now failed six tests in two years. At least.

He deserved to be suspended. Not another year. This kid came into he league with these issues. If you care about the person, you should be sensitive to the fact that isolating him another year from craft and team is not going to help. The idle time will only exacerbate is problem. Goodell is a POS.

 

[BlueStar22]

This is the NFL, not the baby sitting league for Addicts

Empathy, do you have it? Sheesh. That's what is missing in this country.

 

[bayeslife]

The search for an edge rusher continues

 

[Fletch]

Do we pick up another DE now that we lost Davis or do we roll with Mayowa, Irving and the Crawford?

You draft another DE and sign one or two FA's for defensive trenches. Life goes on.

We got homefield without him.

 

[The Quest for Six]

Two of his suspensions were missed tests, not failed test. The NFL treats them the same. The issue at hand is they said he missed a test due to him being in the rehab facility.

If that in fact is the case, I hope the Cowboys take this to court.

The league views even a missed test as a failed test, missed the test because he knew he was going to fail it.... the NFLPA agreed to this in collective bargaining, there is no court challenge

 

[Direwolf63]

No. Hopefully that's it for his Cowboys career. I don't believe in unicorns and flying pigs.

It may be the end of his career. Of maybe not. It all depends on Gregory himself.

Either he stays off the stuff for good. Or he keeps toking up. It's up to him. I don't think he can go entire year clean, myself.

 

[erod]

He deserved to be suspended. Not another year. This kid came into he league with these issues. If you care about the person, you should isolating him another year from craft and team is not going to help. The idle time will only exacerbate is problem.

It's not the NFL's job to run a charity daycare for misfit boys. It has a right to set a drug policy like any business.

 

[DandyDon52]

The bad thing is they wasted a 2nd round pick on him.
And since they drafted him that high no telling how long they keep him.
I dont think he would have been any help in these playoffs, so maybe this is a good thing
for the next few games.

 

[The Quest for Six]

Empathy, do you have it? Sheesh. That's what is missing in this country.

He got numerous chances, at some point the empathy runs out..

 

[Risen Star]

It may be the end of his career. Of maybe not. It all depends on Gregory himself.

Either he stays off the stuff for good. Or he keeps toking up. It's up to him. I don't think he can go entire year clean, myself.

I agree. I think his professional football career is over.

 

[YosemiteSam]

The league views even a missed test as a failed test, missed the test becaus ehe knew he was going to fail it.... the NFLPA agreed to this in collective bargaining, there is no court challenge

If he was locked in a rehab facility that the NFL put him in.... You do the math.