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Originally Posted by barrett
I have already pointed this out a number of times but lets try one more time.
There are plenty of guys who test positive in the NFL for PEDs.
Most continue on with the same performance and don't test positive again. I would guess they are simply more careful on the timing, etc... of what and when they use. But either way it is the case most of the time for guys to go right along like nothing happened.
It is far more rare for guys to test positive and then have a big production dropoff.
And yet you have repeatedly stated as fact, that Brian Cushing will not be anywhere near the player he was before. And your reasoning every time is that he would not have taken it if he was good enough in the first place. But nothing supports your ideas and they aren't rooted in fact. You have no idea what he took (other than the non-ped he was caught with that indicates other PEDs were earlier used), when he took it, what for (injury recovery?), how long he has used, etc... You are just blanketing the whole thing to skip over what you don't know (the details of his use) and ignore what you do know (the overwhelming history that says guys are the same after a positive test as before).
You can hope for him to fail because you don't like cheaters (a reasonable stance for even the most loyal fan, and one I would not disagree with too much), but you can't just state as fact that Cushing will never be the same player again. Nothing supports it.
So I will wait and see what happens when he comes back and I will hope he's the same guy, and while I may be wrong, it is certainly not unsupported wishful thinking.
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I'm a big Cushing fan. So is my wife who happens to also be a Cancer survivor (over 5 years now - knock on wood), but when she and I watched his presser together the other day she's like, '"c'mon Cush, stop with the BS about the tumors because with that crap you don't go out and run around a football field and play for a season in the NFL at PB-level". OK ?
And no I don't like cheaters, but certainly neither do I want him to be a cheater. The guy was already one of the most popular players on the Texans roster, if not the single most popular. He was certainly one of my favorite players.
Can't deny that all the reports about Cushing, the rumors, his history aren't
a factor. And then I'm very reluctant to think that the league would pop him with such a severe penalty, especially it being his first infraction, without giving him every opportunity to clear himself, without giving him the benefit of the doubt if innocent ?
But I will continue to be a Cushing fan, which means I will hope he was and does remain clean and continue to play at the level he did in 2009. Got my doubts, but more than anybody I hope I'm wrong.