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Originally Posted by FlashUNC
They're suspending the best receiver in the league for a year for drugs, yet Rice punches his fiance out in an elevator and gets two games. Or, if you're Greg Hardy and bash your girlfriend's head into a toilet and then throw her on a pile of machine guns (which is a thing that totally happened), you don't hear anything yet.
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Josh Gordon is multi multi time offender....that has chosen weed over a lucrative NFL career. He had serious problems with it in college and hasn't got any better. He didn't take "a hit of the bong"...and find himself suspended. The consequences of his missteps are spelled out in the CBA ....the one that the players agreed to. He is not a victim.
I don't disagree with you about Ray Rice or the initial punishment. It should have been spelled out like it is now. I have no problem with the current stance. There is language that the lifetime ban can be appealed after 1 year....FWIW.
He admitted they stepped on their own peepee with the original discipline issued to Rice. The backlash was predictable and not unjustified, but the comparison to Josh Gordon is not a good one IMO