DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Pure Football Forum Peppers Begins in Stage One

I don't know why people think that the sports media would only have one source when it comes to things like drug tests. Just because the NFL can't tell why someone failed a drug test, doesn't mean people within the NFL can't tell under the guise of anonymity. I know the media is crap, but reporters are still competing with each other to break real stories first. No one is just going to post a story because they talked to an agent. They're going to make sure that the story is correct so at least their own ass is safe.

Petey, I'm with you 100% on the hope there is nothing to this.

given that he's never been a problem on or off the field, if I were a betting man, I'd go with he's clean and will stay that way.

Now, Can he play? LOL Let's hope so.

You were right. Diesel posted an article about he was cramping in high school.

I hadn't heard about that. My bad.

j/c

At this point, I'm willing to believe him when he says he's never done drugs. I have no reason to believe otherwise. He can be removed from Stage One in as little as 90 days, should everything go well. We should have our answer shortly after, I would think.

He has had problems with cramping since High School, HOWEVER only time is going to tell if we need to worry or not.

Of course, but again, never an issue prior to this incident. Not one reported. My guess is this is much ado about nothing.

Spot on.

In the three weeks that he's been a Brown he has been subject to:

A Cleveland area reporter claiming he was probably high on draft day and does two different drugs with slang terms I cannot remember;

Fan message board hysteria that he didn't sign his participation agreement because we KNEW...we just KNEW...he would fail his drug test;

And additional calls for him to man up...admit his mistake...and stay/get clean.

It's like the poster child for battered Browns fan syndrome.

Yes, and they weren't.