Probably house surveillance cameras. Just have to wait and see. If I’m him and I’m innocent and this is just a cash grab situation I’m immediately showing the Pats the video. To keep my job and prove my innocence. But i expect he’s gonna be gone by the end of the day.
beating your wife and multiple violent arrests for other assaults and allegedly choking your girlfriend are “vastly different”….how?
Hard to figure out what if any punishment there would be for cocaine... if he failed a test it would be nothing except going into the program, not clear if an arrest for possession is different. PEDs are basically the only drugs the NFL suspends for now.
IANAL, but is there something in those statements that stipulates cocaine? In the first couple posts, it said "Class B substance" which could include oxy, which would certainly make sense in terms of medical necessity. OTOT I assume that Oxy is not considered "Class B" if one has a prescription?
Not sure what that has to do with anything other than scratching your itch to be snarky
Because - to me at least - "community service, donating to battered women’s shelter, period of no contact with the wife" pretty much means the "allegation" was true.
Do people really consider cocaine use that much of a problem in the sense that it could cause the player to be cut?
I don’t really care about cocaine use from a moral standpoint, but from a team and character standpoint, it’s not a good performance drug. It’ll mess your sleep and eating and I’d be pretty unhappy if a teammate was using during game week. What happened to that Pats player a few years back who had all that mdma (I think coming back from Canada or something)?
Personally, I'm pretty confident the football marketplace will eject cokeheads, because they will soon suck at football. But from the league standpoint, considering that you can't buy coke at the store like you can weed, these "business dealings" with drug dealers could have implications as to threats and blackmail.
Even those who never get a chance to play a pro game? Yeah. Bias still stings.
Obviously there's no way to know (Hollywood Henderson is a small sample size), but coke fucks up the body in ways that pot, for example, does not. I think anything approaching heavy/regular use will cause physical deterioration. (FWIW-- In my stupider days, I tried many things. Coke was the one where the post-high physical trainwreck-i-tude made me say "nope. never again."
Except the NFL has policies for drug use by players and there are procedures called out in the CBA. If Peppers was arrested for possession alone, he could end up being subject to the drug testing policies defined the CBA.
98.5 today played a 2016 clip of Jonathan Kraft saying Domestic Violence isn’t something they overlook. This has nothing to do with Myra.
I look forward to the official announcement. The 2016 Patriots and the 2024 Patriots are quite different animals, in many ways
I think it has a lot more to do with the environment that most of the people who end up in the NFL are coming from, socioeconomically. They grew up with problems, they grew up around lots of people who had problems, they learned the patterns of anger-management, dispute-resolution, typical behavior in intimate relationships, the bounds of normal behavior, from everyone around them, long before they had a fancy public-facing job and a big paycheck to match. I don't think playing football had, or has, any meaningful effect. It might down the road, of course, from CTE etc. But mid-career? I think this is just an artifact of socialization.
This seems right. For every Aaron Hernandez you show me, I can show you a John Urschel. There's a decidedly Alpha Male or Militaristic tenor to the football world, but those traits/socializations can be expressed in a broad range of ways.
As a spectacular example of how Taylor received kid glove treatment from the league? I spent a chunk of the 80's and 90's looking at SPECT and CT scans as a (very peripheral) part of some studies that were being done. Google "salt and pepper CT scans" if you want a sense of what Dokes is referring to.
I thought the point was more that Taylor continued to play at a high level despite the coke. That does seem to be accurate. And the only straight-faced responses are that he might be an exception proving the rule or that talent at his rarified level might win out.
I guess, and I apologize if I misinterpreted that. The extent to which gifted individuals (intellectual, athletic, whatever) can get away with shit for years on end is admittedly pretty impressive, but his MRI scans might well tell a very different story.
Yes on the first part (along with his team) but also what Dokes said in the reply - he was the best LB in history while at the same time by many accounts a coke fiend. No doubt he didn't do himself any favors in terms of long term health but he was a beast on the football field regardless of whatever was coursing through his blood.
Isn’t DV what ultimately did Antonio Brown in during his 1 game stint with the Pats?
He admitted to having coke on him.
So, outside stairs, and I'm assuming his video "evidence" might be a ring doorbell...
We'll believe him until a similar incident emerges from his short stint with the Frankfurt Galaxy.
We might have to exhume Danny Tanner by the end of the season to really get it right.
Bill would have cut him? Bill had to be dragged kicking and screaming to get rid of Antonio Brown.
Not knowing how to talk to police is a worse offense than possessing cocaine. Idiot.
