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Five minutes til the next positive test.
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Yeah no shit lol
It's great news but I don't really care anymore. This kid has proven he can't be trusted. So I've already written him off.
Now if he turns his life around, stops using, and takes advantage of his situation then I'll give a shit. Glad he went to rehab. But now he has a lot to to prove to the team and the fans
But until then.....
Meh
Who cares
It's great news but I don't really care anymore. This kid has proven he can't be trusted. So I've already written him off.
Now if he turns his life around, stops using, and takes advantage of his situation then I'll give a shit. Glad he went to rehab. But now he has a lot to to prove to the team and the fans
But until then.....
Meh
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Yea, good for him as a person that he's at least makings an attempt to clean up his life but as a football player the Cowboys need to move on. If at some point he is able to get back on the field then great but he should never be counted on to be a starter.
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What does this mean? Is he even still on the team? Who do we release? Wilbur?
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Making sense of the Randy Gregory reports
Posted by Mike Florio on September 4, 2016, 12:40 PM EDT
After Clarence Hill of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram surmised that Cowboys defensive end Randy Gregory won the appeal of a 10-game suspension that would have been added to his pending four-game suspension, the national media machine kicked in to high gear, reporting that Gregory actually had won his appeal.
He apparently hasn’t.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, who initially was one of several who declared that Gregory won the appeal of his 10-game suspension, now “clarifies” his report by saying the appeal is still pending. (Is that how “Dewey Defeats Truman” was later “clarified?”)
The deeper problem is that, once a significant report emerges, outlets like NFL Media and ESPN mobilize to “confirm” the report, even if they sometimes don’t “confirm” a report but act as if they reported it first. (NFL Media, with all due respect, is the worst offender in this regard, always crediting one of its own guys and never acknowledging that one or more other outlets had it first. ESPN has improved significantly in this regard.)
ESPN’s reporting on this one is sloppy as well, with Dan Graziano saying that Gregory won his appeal and Ed Werder saying Gregory hasn’t been notified that he won the appeal and that there has never even been a hearing held on the issue. The article at ESPN.com mentions both reports but makes no effort to harmonize hopelessly conflicting nuggets.
Apparently, here’s the news: Gregory is now serving a four-game suspension. His 10-game suspension is still pending. So, basically, there’s no news. And yet it somehow became news, all because NFL Media and ESPN seized on Hill’s assumption and ran with it. Right into a wall.
Posted by Mike Florio on September 4, 2016, 12:40 PM EDT
After Clarence Hill of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram surmised that Cowboys defensive end Randy Gregory won the appeal of a 10-game suspension that would have been added to his pending four-game suspension, the national media machine kicked in to high gear, reporting that Gregory actually had won his appeal.
He apparently hasn’t.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, who initially was one of several who declared that Gregory won the appeal of his 10-game suspension, now “clarifies” his report by saying the appeal is still pending. (Is that how “Dewey Defeats Truman” was later “clarified?”)
The deeper problem is that, once a significant report emerges, outlets like NFL Media and ESPN mobilize to “confirm” the report, even if they sometimes don’t “confirm” a report but act as if they reported it first. (NFL Media, with all due respect, is the worst offender in this regard, always crediting one of its own guys and never acknowledging that one or more other outlets had it first. ESPN has improved significantly in this regard.)
ESPN’s reporting on this one is sloppy as well, with Dan Graziano saying that Gregory won his appeal and Ed Werder saying Gregory hasn’t been notified that he won the appeal and that there has never even been a hearing held on the issue. The article at ESPN.com mentions both reports but makes no effort to harmonize hopelessly conflicting nuggets.
Apparently, here’s the news: Gregory is now serving a four-game suspension. His 10-game suspension is still pending. So, basically, there’s no news. And yet it somehow became news, all because NFL Media and ESPN seized on Hill’s assumption and ran with it. Right into a wall.
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Correct. I have a feeling they will let him serve his 4 games and then once he comes back they will review the case and then serve him 10 more games.
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I don't think they can during the season. He has to be away from the facility the entire 4 games if I'm not mistaken.
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That's unless they do decide to issue the 10 game suspension. Then he would come to us late in the season out of shape and rusty.
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Just write this kid off as I have. I don't ever expect to see him play again. If he does he will be shitty for awhile.
If he ever gets his shit together, quits smoking dope, gets back in shape, earns the trust back, and then finally plays like we had hoped he would when we drafted him then it's all good
But until then just forget he exists
If he ever gets his shit together, quits smoking dope, gets back in shape, earns the trust back, and then finally plays like we had hoped he would when we drafted him then it's all good
But until then just forget he exists
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Exactly. Set the bar low.