Shane Ray cited for misdemeanor Marijuana possession

[kdp1980]

Seriously, how hard can it be to keep your nose clean for a few months in order to make millions of dollars?

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...ay-cited-for-misdemeanor-marijuana-possession

 

[Monster]

So much for his feel good story.

 

[manchild98]

Seriously, how hard can it be to keep your nose clean for a few months in order to make millions of dollars?

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...ay-cited-for-misdemeanor-marijuana-possession

I don't get it either. You just need to be a good boy for about 5 months. That's it. Don't get arrested, don't stay out at the club til' 4 am, don't smoke weed, don't drink and drive, don't punch a man or woman.

 

[kdp1980]

I wonder what's going through his mind right now. I'd be thinking about knocking myself out with a baseball bat. Seems like there are more and more of these half wit's every year. If I were a gm, I would not touch any of them.

 

[zyxt9]

If I was GM I would try to have a team of guys who were undercover types, able to blend in and get a feel for what my prospective draft picks are doing in life, just to get a betterbunderstanding of their personal life. Nothing like offering the kids drugs or something illegal, but able to find out things like this. Especially after so many recent situations like this, I wouldn't want to be blindsided a few days before the draft by some idiot getting arrested when I had them on my wish list. Plus the info can help assess type of person and thereby teammate the kid could be.

Combiies give physical perfeormance data, these days GMs need solid data on these kids mental stats.

 

[Monster]

I won't say he's a bad person for weed. He's not. I'll say that it speaks volumes about his character and his ability to understand a situation. About to be a millionaire andyou can't wait a fucking week to get high.

 

[boogerlovejoy]

I won't say he's a bad person for weed. He's not. I'll say that it speaks volumes about his character and his ability to understand a situation. About to be a millionaire andyou can't wait a fucking week to get high.

I agree. Weed certainly doesnt make you a bad person. I have a solution to this problem......it would NEVER happen.....EVER....but I think it's a realistic way to at least bring a real consequence to the problem.

If someone gets busted for weed ANY time in the previous 6 months before the draft......blackball him.

NOBODY drafts him. NO team invites him in for camp that season. The NFLPA would file a grievance.....every GM just needs to say they don't see him as an NFL player. He can play in the CFL or his rec league flag football team for a year. Make him re-enter the draft and attend the veterans combine. Test him again. If he fails again.....do the same thing.

Would the players association agree to this? Not in a billion years. Would it HELP solve the problem.

I think so. As it stands.....these guys do this knowing there are no real consequences for their actions. Not at first. They don't care. Teams aren't going to be that scared of pot smoking......they just aren't.......but if you put the fear of possibly losing their dream and the financial losses together.......it might change things.

 

[manchild98]

I agree. Weed certainly doesnt make you a bad person. I have a solution to this problem......it would NEVER happen.....EVER....but I think it's a realistic way to at least bring a real consequence to the problem.

If someone gets busted for weed ANY time in the previous 6 months before the draft......blackball him.

NOBODY drafts him. NO team invites him in for camp that season. The NFLPA would file a grievance.....every GM just needs to say they don't see him as an NFL player. He can play in the CFL or his rec league flag football team for a year. Make him re-enter the draft and attend the veterans combine. Test him again. If he fails again.....do the same thing.

Would the players association agree to this? Not in a billion years. Would it HELP solve the problem.

I think so. As it stands.....these guys do this knowing there are no real consequences for their actions. Not at first. They don't care. Teams aren't going to be that scared of pot smoking......they just aren't.......but if you put the fear of possibly losing their dream and the financial losses together.......it might change things.

I think they do it because they are young and like most people think they will never be the one who gets caught. I still don't get it though. I went to college and did some drugs from time to time. You know what I stopped doing around March my senior year of college?....any and all drugs. Because I knew I had to start interviewing and get a real job in the upcoming months and I didn't want to risk ever failing a drug test. And I made that decision knowing I was just going to be getting a shitty entry level type job with some company.

 

[inkfreq]

I agree. Weed certainly doesnt make you a bad person. I have a solution to this problem......it would NEVER happen.....EVER....but I think it's a realistic way to at least bring a real consequence to the problem.

If someone gets busted for weed ANY time in the previous 6 months before the draft......blackball him.

NOBODY drafts him. NO team invites him in for camp that season. The NFLPA would file a grievance.....every GM just needs to say they don't see him as an NFL player. He can play in the CFL or his rec league flag football team for a year. Make him re-enter the draft and attend the veterans combine. Test him again. If he fails again.....do the same thing.

Would the players association agree to this? Not in a billion years. Would it HELP solve the problem.

I think so. As it stands.....these guys do this knowing there are no real consequences for their actions. Not at first. They don't care. Teams aren't going to be that scared of pot smoking......they just aren't.......but if you put the fear of possibly losing their dream and the financial losses together.......it might change things.

Doesn't matter if they agree to it or not, it would be illegal. You cannot deny someone a job based on a crime they have not been adjudicated for. More specifically, you cannot set it as policy for 32 individual businesses.

That would be collusion. The NFL has the right to discipline him, and may, but they do not have a right to say he can't be drafted legally speaking.

If all 32 teams decide independently to pass on him, that's fine, but there can't be any formal or informal agreement to do so.

 

[boogerlovejoy]

Doesn't matter if they agree to it or not, it would be illegal. You cannot deny someone a job based on a crime they have not been adjudicated for. More specifically, you cannot set it as policy for 32 individual businesses.

That would be collusion. The NFL has the right to discipline him, and may, but they do not have a right to say he can't be drafted legally speaking.

If all 32 teams decide independently to pass on him, that's fine, but there can't be any formal or informal agreement to do so.

That's where the blackball comes in. Nothing in writing......just a gentlemen's agreement to pass on these fools.

I know it won't happen. I was just daydreaming.