Cushing out 4 games for Steroids

[barrett]

Originally Posted by nunusguy

I'm sorry, but I gotta call that just what it is which is wishful thinking.
If Cushing (or anybody who uses this stuff) doesn't get a premium for their field performance and/or more durability & resilience from this stuff which they use at great peril (Cushing is out 4 games and out 4 game paydays for his first conviction), why would than even mess with it in the first place ?
The only reason I can think of is that get a big, big benefit in performance.

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.