Josh Gordon is an architect of his own Suspension & downfall!

Josh Gordon is an architect of his own Suspension & downfall!

The Josh Gordon debate and rumours goes on and on among fans and most of them feel the American Football player's ban is unfair to say the least.Josh Gordon will now miss the whole of
the 2014 season after a ban / suspension for testing positive. and that is not a rumour but a fact!.But is Gordon the architect of his own downfall?

Afterall he tested positive for another drug test.Given Gordon's lengthy history of drug-related issues, his return is certainly not guaranteed.Gordon had multiple failed drug tests while in college, forcing him to leave Baylor early and enter the NFL via the supplemental draft. He served a two-game suspension last year, blaming that positive test on Codeine, a prescription cough syrup. In July, while his current suspension was pending, he was arrested in North Carolina and charged with driving while intoxicated.

`Yes, the NFL rules on marijuana are misguided and out of touch, but disliking a law isn’t a defense for breaking it.
As expected Josh made an apology to a whole bunch of people and rightly so.But you begin to wonder ,does he really mean this?The American football superstar said...“I’d like to apologize to my teammates, coaches, the Cleveland Browns organization and our fans. I am very disappointed that the NFL and its hearing office didn’t exercise better discretion and judgment in my case. I would like to sincerely thank the people who have been incredibly supportive of me during this challenging time, including my family, my agent, my union, my legal team, and the Cleveland Browns staff.

Ray Rice got only 2 games suspension for assaulting his girl friend.

The uproar over Ray Rice’s two-game suspension is the catalyst for most of the anger directed toward Gordon’s year-long ban. How could a man caught on video assaulting his girlfriend get a two-game suspension when a man who tested positive for a substance that’s legal in two states and decriminalized elsewhere gets a full season?

This misses the point entirely. It’s true that Rice’s two-game suspension was a travesty, but it has no relevance on what happened to Josh Gordon. They’re separate incidents, the first falling under an unfortunate gray area of legalese, the second covered by the iron-clad certainties of drug testing.

Gordon has now failed multiple drugs test in both college and the NFL . The positive NFL test led to a two-game suspension at the start of last season. In order to be on the field for the Browns’ Week 1 game against the Steelers, he had to do one thing: pass every drug test in the off season. He didn’t do that. The penalty is a year-long ban. It was enforced properly.

What’s the complaint, exactly? That Gordon shouldn’t have to serve the penalty he knew he was risking?qwaWA\ZQA\A\

If you want to argue the CBA policy on discipline is terrible, I’ll join you. If you want to argue that any system which prohibits suspensions for DUI arrests but suspends for smoking weed is capricious, arbitrary and not in the best interests of NFL players or fans, you’ll find no disagreement here. But the rule is the rule, and it’s one the players agreed in the CBA.

Now it’s time to change the rule. It’s too late to save Josh Gordon from missing the 2014 season, but maybe his woes will be a catalyst for necessary change. Positive drug tests should still carry sanctions. After all, the NFL is a business and it’s not good business to have your players associated with drug use. But one year is too harsh, particularly when domestic violence and drunk driving carry lesser sanctions.

The worst part of the suspension is Gordon’s banishment from all Cleveland Browns activities while he serves his suspension. If the point is to get Gordon on a straight path, not allowing him to have the structure and discipline of a football environment is pure hypocrisy from the league.

There are many problems with the NFL’s rules and its application of their sanctions. But in Josh Gordon’s case, he brought them all upon himself.

Josh  is still a young man with his whole life and career ahead of him.But he has to get off the drugs band wagon.I'm amazed he can play so good with all that stuff in his system anyway.
Maybe what Josh Gordon really needs is help or therapy.Has anyone thought he might really have a problem?Otherwise why keep going down that road?
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