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Auggie

(31,169 posts)
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 06:30 PM Jun 2014

Problems mount for Brown's Gordon: "(some) guys just don't get it."

Browns' wideout Josh Gordon was ticketed for speeding over Memorial Day weekend, and a passenger in his car was cited for marijuana possession.

The incident came as Gordon and the team await word on a potential season-long suspension for the receiver due to another failed drug test, this time for marijuana.

The Cleveland Browns declined comment, but coach Mike Pettine said there are times when a player just doesn't "get it."

"Sometimes guys get the message and it's too late," Pettine said, answering a question about whether the NFL does enough to help players while not speaking specifically about Gordon. "In all my time in the league, there's always going to be a handful of guys that just don't get it, but I think the league's done more than enough to get the word out."

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11027686/mike-pettine-coach-cleveland-browns-says-some-players-get-declines-comment-josh-gordon-latest-trouble

Based on the history, I'd say his career is hanging by a thread. Will take a Herculean effort to salvage it. Damn waste.

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Problems mount for Brown's Gordon: "(some) guys just don't get it." (Original Post) Auggie Jun 2014 OP
Marijuana possession? KamaAina Jun 2014 #1
Passenger, not Gordon, cited for possession many a good man Jun 2014 #2
You laugh and you scoff KamaAina Jun 2014 #3
He has shown elite ability JonLP24 Jun 2014 #4

many a good man

(5,997 posts)
2. Passenger, not Gordon, cited for possession
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 06:56 PM
Jun 2014

I think the Browns hired the guy to follow Gordon around to snatch the joints out of his mouth every time he tries to light up.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
3. You laugh and you scoff
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 07:06 PM
Jun 2014

but the Texas Rangers, and presumably now the Angels, hired someone to follow Josh Hamilton around and do exactly that (with the booze and the drugs).

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
4. He has shown elite ability
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 03:47 AM
Jun 2014

w/ the worst group of quarterbacks throwing to him.

Weed isn't itself the thing that prevents him from being one of the superstar receivers in this league but the policies against it. Though the NFL gives out lots of second chances. He'll just have to be smarter about his use if he decides to continue.

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