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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 10:20 AM Aug 2016

NFL determining what is 'full cooperation' key to PED interviews for players

Source: USA Today

NFL determining what is 'full cooperation' key to PED interviews for players

Tom Pelissero, USA TODAY Sports 9:49 a.m. EDT August 24, 2016

After months of delays, the four active players targeted in the NFL’s performance-enhancing drug probe are expected to begin speaking with league investigators when Packers linebackers Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers have their interviews Wednesday in Green Bay.

The next big question is what exactly the NFL will consider the full cooperation it’s demanding from Matthews, Peppers, Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison and free-agent linebacker Mike Neal for them to avoid banishment.

Because it’s almost certainly not as simple as showing up and, as some have suggested, giving the Marshawn Lynch treatment (i.e. “I’m just here so I won’t get fined”) the moment the line of questioning goes anywhere they don’t want it to.

Look at the initial disciplinary decision against New England Patriots star Tom Brady, whose refusal to produce electronic evidence (emails, text messages, etc.) and testimony that investigators concluded was not plausible and contradicted by other evidence was cited as “failure to cooperate fully and candidly,” contributing to a four-game suspension in the “Deflategate” matter.

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Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2016/08/24/james-harrison-clay-matthews-nfl-ped-investigation/89120774/

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Source: ESPN

James Harrison, NFL to meet Thursday over Al-Jazeera report

9:44 AM EDT
Jeremy Fowler
ESPN Staff Writer

PITTSBURGH -- Steelers outside linebacker James Harrison will meet with NFL investigators on Thursday at 11 a.m. over the Al-Jazeera report that linked four active players to performance-enhancing drug use, his agent Bill Parise confirms.

Green Bay Packers linebackers Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers are set to meet with the league Wednesday. Free-agent linebacker Mike Neal will meet with NFL investigators on Thursday in Chicago.

An NFLPA attorney will be present at Harrison's interview, as well as the others, to help limit the questions to the specifics of the Al-Jazeera report, a source told ESPN's Dan Graziano.

The NFL says it will not comment on details of its interviews with the players.

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Read more: http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/17381049/james-harrison-pittsburgh-steelers-nfl-talk-thursday-al-jazeera-ped-report
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JonLP24

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2. They would have to interview the likes of Charlie Sly
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 10:50 AM
Aug 2016

Last edited Wed Aug 24, 2016, 09:04 PM - Edit history (1)

Since it was him that made the majority of the claims to a hidden camera which Al Jazeera had a British athlete to go around and try to buy dope. Charlie Sly obviously really does sell it so unless he was bullshitting but he did know atleast Tyler Teargard who also told the hidden camera he used Delta2 for the Chicago Cubs the year before.

Al Jazeera themselves didn't make up anything as their evidence comes from what PED traffickers said to hidden cameras.

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
3. Well, this may provide them a convenient distraction so they don't have to talk about Josh Brown.
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 12:27 PM
Aug 2016

My prediction is that the NFL won't manage to find any "credible" evidence of any wrongdoing, because if any part of the story is true, it's going to make it tough to pretend that all of it was a big lie, which is the easiest way to sweep this under the rug.

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
5. I don't think the NFL has any desire to get confessions here.
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 02:35 PM
Aug 2016

It makes it seem like that story was credible, which is the last thing they want.

I think "cooperation" probably consists of telling the NFL any loose ends that TMZ might find so they can clean them up before they sweep this all under the rug.

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