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PoS said:
LOL he got busted a few days ago so that means he's already with the team. :2razz:
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Yeah. One would think the Pats would have tested him before signing him.

But then maybe they did but they didn't care and hoped he'd get away with it.
 
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SenorXm/Sirius said:
Yeah. One would think the Pats would have tested him before signing him.

But then maybe they did but they didn't care and hoped he'd get away with it.
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Watson probably hooked up with Edelman the moment they got introduced and then juiced up together.
 
PoS said:
Watson probably hooked up with Edelman the moment they got introduced and then juiced up together.
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He took a supplement recommended to him by a DOCTOR when he was RETIRED never thinking he would return. That supplement was banned by the NFL.
 
PoS said:
LOL he got busted a few days ago so that means he's already with the team. :2razz:
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Actually that is nonsense/untrue. He was supposed to retire last season. He was tested on March the 29th, he signed with the Patriots on May the 9th. So I am not sure what universe you live in, but in the one I live in March the 29th is almost 1.5 months before May the 9th when he signed.
 
PoS said:
Watson probably hooked up with Edelman the moment they got introduced and then juiced up together.
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And the Patriot hating nonsense continues.
 
Peter King said:
Actually that is nonsense/untrue. He was supposed to retire last season. He was tested on March the 29th, he signed with the Patriots on May the 9th. So I am not sure what universe you live in, but in the one I live in March the 29th is almost 1.5 months before May the 9th when he signed.
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Still the question is why didn't the Pats test him too?
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Still the question is why didn't the Pats test him too?
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one and a half months later I doubt it was still in his system, and who knows if they tested him. He knew he failed the test 6 days before he signed with the Pats.
 
Peter King said:
one and a half months later I doubt it was still in his system, and who knows if they tested him. He knew he failed the test 6 days before he signed with the Pats.
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So he was retired but still in the NFL's 'system' but not in the Pats? Something is off here.

You sign a player, it's mandatory to give that player a physical. Drug test has to be part of that physical.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
So he was retired but still in the NFL's 'system' but not in the Pats? Something is off here.

You sign a player, it's mandatory to give that player a physical. Drug test has to be part of that physical.
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In the Patriots case, they probably gave him the steroids during the physical. :mrgreen:
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
So he was retired but still in the NFL's 'system' but not in the Pats? Something is off here.

You sign a player, it's mandatory to give that player a physical. Drug test has to be part of that physical.
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It is not brain surgery, he was tested March 29th, he was notified of his failed test on the 3rd of May, he signed on the 9th of May.

He was not a player of the Patriots last season, he was one of the Saints. And as stated, who knows if he still had any PED in him 6 weeks or so after he was tested first. At the signing of his contract he most likely was clean. His punishment at least is from something about 6 weeks before he became a Patriot.

There is nothing off here whatsoever.
 
“After my contract expired last March I told my doctors I was finished playing, went through a series of medical tests and was prescribed Bio Identical Testosterone Cypionate to assist in healing my body and mind,” ...

After tight end Rob Gronkowski announced his retirement March 24, the Patriots reached out to Watson about a possible return. ...

“I was devastated and for obvious reasons did not want to proceed,” he wrote Sunday. “At that point I knew that my decision to return to play would include a four game suspension and I immediately discussed this new development with the clubs.”

The Patriots signed Watson anyway. ...
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...-four-game-suspension/?utm_term=.d542d7398712

it would appear the pats knew watson would be subject to a suspension and signed him anyway
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Ahhh. So I've been asking how do they sign him without knowing? But it turns out they did know.

Doesn't put the Pats in the best light.
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Why does that not put the Pats in the best light? If he had stopped the use of the banned substance and was fulfilling his duties as to not using PED's, how does hiring someone you know is going to get a short suspension putting them in a bad light?

They knew he was going to have to sit out 4 matches, the needs of the Pats in that position was so great that they accepted him not being available for the first 4 matches. Not ideal but the Patriots broke no rules and hired someone who for all purposes intended was retired. Him being suspended for 4 matches would not have mattered whatsoever if he had stayed retired. Now with his return from retirement he was going to have to pay the price for his behavior as a retiree from the NFL.

The Patriots broke no rules. I am sure other teams have had PED users who still got hired by a team in need.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Ahhh. So I've been asking how do they sign him without knowing? But it turns out they did know.

Doesn't put the Pats in the best light.
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don't know why it sheds a bad light on the organization to sign a fellow who ingested the prohibited substance in the belief he was retiring
 
justabubba said:
sure. that site is used to dumbing things down for the local football fans
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Hey, if you're a Dolphan, you can admit it. Nothing wrong with supporting the only perfect team ever.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Sayers was the best RB in my lifetime. Watching him run was a thing of beauty. Too bad his career was so short.
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I was too young to really know him on TV. Fortunately he had a good successor in Walter Payton.
 
PoS said:
I was too young to really know him on TV. Fortunately he had a good successor in Walter Payton.
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Watching Sayers run was like watch a deer run, he 'glided'.. When the ball was in his hands IMO he was the most exciting offensive player I ever seen.

And I ain't no Bears fan... lol... I'm putting him a head of Swann and Stallworth.. Who were both pretty exciting.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
Sayers was the best RB in my lifetime. Watching him run was a thing of beauty. Too bad his career was so short.
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Bo

Barry

Gayle

Walter

Emmit

(OJ fits somewhere in between, but we won't add him to the list.)
 
Bucky said:
He took a supplement recommended to him by a DOCTOR when he was RETIRED never thinking he would return. That supplement was banned by the NFL.
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Then why the suspension?
 
calamity said:
Bo

Barry

Gayle

Walter

Emmit

(OJ fits somewhere in between, but we won't add him to the list.)
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Because Sayers had such a short career I don't think I'd put him in my top 5 greatest of all-time. Longevity has to be a big consideration when talking about GOAT's... BUT watching him run, in that short amount of time, IMO he was the greatest.
 
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