Around the League...Training Camp Style!

[Skinzman]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

It wasn't meant for the players. Apparently fans don't get the fact that the NFL doesn't have anything to do with this drug policy. This is something the NFLPA voted on with the new CBA.

If it was only the NFLPA that approved the CBA, then practice squad players would make 10 mil and roster players would start at 20 mil for backups. If you honestly think the NFL has nothing to do with this then you are hopeless. Just because it is in the CBA does not mean the players wanted it. There is always a give and take when negotiating.

For the Gordon situation. The amount that was discovered in his system is next to nothing. You could get that much in your system from parking next to a group of people smoking it in a car and they open their door the same time you do and you breathe in some of the smoke.

Not to mention, he had one test of his sample actually pass. The other sample barely failed a ridiculous standard. The NFL standard is 10 times stricter than even the WADA standard. In the NFL, 15 nanograms is a failed test. A single hit of average marijuana is 500 to 1000 nanograms. Higher grade (aka chronic), which I would assume players would use since they can easily afford it, would be a whole lot higher.