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- Updated: July 25, 2016
I am sorry. I don’t want to say this. Please let me be wrong. Please, please, please let me be wrong.
It’s just that I think it’s only a matter of time before Josh Gordon fails yet again.
I hate saying it. I do. But anyone who has any faith in Gordon, including the Browns, is playing the fool.
Roger Goodell reinstated Gordon on Monday, allowing the star receiver to return to live game action after serving a four-game suspension to start the season.
“As we discussed at our [July 19] meeting, as commissioner, I want nothing more than to see you turn your circumstances around and succeed,” Goodell wrote. He continued:
Countless others[,] including your agent, teammates and coaches, Mr. [Jimmy] Haslam and the leadership of the organization, the program professionals and Jim Brown[,] also have pledged to provide you with every resource at their disposal. But as you acknowledged, ultimately, your future is your responsibility. I have every belief that you can make the right choices, but it will be up to you to do so.
This quote touches on a few potential trouble spots. First, Gordon had that support before, still failed multiple drug tests and was suspended three times by the NFL.
Second, consider again this sentence from Goodell’s letter: “But as you acknowledged, ultimately, your future is your responsibility.”
Gordon’s career has stretched the span of 64 possible NFL games; he has played in only 35. If he does play in Week 5—and that’s a gigantic “if”—he will have missed 33 of 68 contests. So why should we think the fourth time is the …
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