Richard Sherman Wins PED Appeal

[ram29jackson]

7/29/2011: Signed a four-year, $2,222,424 contract. The deal included a $182,424 signing bonus. 2012: $465,000, 2013: $555,000, 2014: $645,000, 2015: Free Agent

Yeah.. that deal that paid him 465K this year totally changed him.

Go play in traffic already.

you're trying to hard and reading too much into a simple thing. Those videos are simply before and after making big money. I implied nothing about him. Just a simple time line on video.
and you are stupid if you dont think making 6 digits or more to run around catching balls doesnt change a person.

[Goober]

Braun was chosen at random to take a piss test. He did so, the sample was divided into 'A' and 'B' samples in his presence, secured and taped up. Mind you, at no time during the lifespan of these 2 samples was there any evidence they had been tampered with. The samples showed the elevated testosterone ratio and further, more expansive testing showed the sample contained synthetic testosterone (meaning it was not created within his body).

Now, whether the sample was kept in a fridge in the collector's home or sat over the weekend at a FedEx facility. There are experts who say the sample would not develop foreign testosterone unless it was tampered with.

Hopefully, future collectors do not leave any wiggle room and follow the new guidelines without any room for interpretation.

Troll going to troll. This thread is about Sherman, not Braun. Sherman's sample was leaking! If you can't see how that compromises the sample you are truely lost.

As for Braun, I'd hate to get off topic, but since you keep trolling with it (hey remember when trolling was banned from the sports forums?), he got off fair and square. The sampling procedure was violated. If the procedure is violated, the test results are thrown out. No matter what. Same thing happens in the legal court system. I'm not sure why this is so hard for you to comprehend.

As for whether or not Braun's sample could have been tampered with. Both sides presented their scientific findings last year. I'm not interested in digging up those links again. Both sides will apparently think what they want to think. If you want to continue to hate on Ryan Braun even after he cleared his name, well I guess it's your God given right to be a fuck tard.

Now stop trying to ruin the thread with this half assed trolling. Sherman's case is nothing like Braun's and the comparison was idiotic to begin with. No reason to bring it up at all, except to troll.

[JimLeavy59]

Shit Braun actually put up better stats then when he was "cheating" this past season.

[EmpireWF]

I know you're angry gooby and a homer in this situation, but there was no clearing of any name. He found a loophole and made good use of it.

As for Sherman, eh. I know adderall is in a tricky spot with the NFL. Tyler Sash's situation didn't even include playing time. He took the prescription medication in the off-season to help him focus when he was set to speak publicly at a charity event and happened to be randomly selected to take a piss test the next day. Despite the valid prescription, he didn't have a therapeutic exemption and lost his appeal, so he missed the first four games of the year.

Seems like the NFL needs to figure out a wider plan to deal with/regulate the growing use of adderall, especially in training camp.

[Bear Pand]

you're trying to hard and reading too much into a simple thing. Those videos are simply before and after making big money. I implied nothing about him. Just a simple time line on video.
and you are stupid if you dont think making 6 digits or more to run around catching balls doesnt change a person.

There's a guy who was his teammate both at Stanford and Seattle who suggets he's always been that way

Sherm, honestly, is probably the most confident player I've ever played with, and it's not false confidence, either," says Seahawks tight end Evan Moore, whose sideline confrontation with Sherman when the two were Stanford teammates led Harbaugh to suspend the latter for a game late in the 2007 season. "The way he expresses his confidence — in a way that he'd have to back it up, or it would be noticeable — is what sets him apart."

Sherman, a true freshman, saw immediate action at receiver for the Cardinal, a team in the midst of a fifth consecutive miserable season. When Harbaugh arrived the following year, it wasn't surprising that the two headstrong competitors would clash at some point. During a November 2007 home game against Washington, Sherman, the team's leading receiver at the time, lost his cool on the field, picking up a personal foul. Moore, then a senior receiver, scolded the sophomore when he got to the sidelines, telling him to keep his emotions under control.
"He yelled, 'Get away from me!' " Moore recalls. "We laugh about it now. He's a fierce competitor. Even before then, I used to have to calm him down. I'd say, 'Richard, chill.' That was just him being pissed."
Recalls Sherman: "Me and E-Mo had gotten into it on the sideline. He started pushing me, and I started pushing him. I was kinda mad he didn't get suspended. That was kinda unfair. They just said I was being 'too much.' "

and a guy who played with him in high school, and again with the seahawks now:

"He was one of the smartest dudes at our school," recalls Seahawks safety Jeron Johnson, who threw the bubble screen that Sherman, a two-way threat at Dominguez High School, parlayed into the first touchdown catch of his prep career. "He knew what he wanted to do. While we were fooling around, he was focused on his books."
This is not to say that Sherman was the shy, bookish type. "Oh, he's gonna talk," Johnson says, laughing. "He's gonna be him. Some people might see it as arrogance, but that's just Richard, trying to prove himself." (It's a quality that has carried over into the Seahawks' meeting room. "He's like a class clown," Thomas says. Replies Sherman: "It's hard to be the class clown and salutatorian, you know what I mean?")

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--seahawks--richard-sherman-wants-to--destroy--the-nfl-and-become-the-best-cb-all-time-170800233.html

solid attempt though

[Bear Pand]

I know you're angry gooby and a homer in this situation, but there was no clearing of any name. He found a loophole and made good use of it.

As for Sherman, eh. I know adderall is in a tricky spot with the NFL. Tyler Sash's situation didn't even include playing time. He took the prescription medication in the off-season to help him focus when he was set to speak publicly at a charity event and happened to be randomly selected to take a piss test the next day. Despite the valid prescription, he didn't have a therapeutic exemption and lost his appeal, so he missed the first four games of the year.

Seems like the NFL needs to figure out a wider plan to deal with/regulate the growing use of adderall, especially in training camp.

Exactly. So your beef falls with the NFL's testing procedures not Sherman. He doesn't need to clear his name because he was never caught doing anything wrong.

[ram29jackson]

There's a guy who was his teammate both at Stanford and Seattle who suggets he's always been that way

it doesnt mean it has to be for the bad or anything. The fact is you change regardless when going from nothing to 6 and 7 digits yearly. You think different and perceive different and act different about everything, its not a negative, it just is

[EmpireWF]

it doesnt mean it has to be for the bad or anything. The fact is you change regardless when going from nothing to 6 and 7 digits yearly. You think different and perceive different and act different about everything, its not a negative, it just is

Not just money...the guy has to have a world of confidence knowing he can play at a high level as a professional.

Besides, the guy was a teenager in college, you expect him to remain that way as continues growing up?

[ram29jackson]

Not just money...the guy has to have a world of confidence knowing he can play at a high level as a professional.

Besides, the guy was a teenager in college, you expect him to remain that way as continues growing up?

not really, I expect them to act like pinheads in college, he actually comes off normal. Gronkowski looked/acted like a dumb college kid and still does

[NAHSTE]

LOL we are still taking every adderall claim at face value, even though the league doesn't confirm or deny what substances a player tested positive for? Good times.

[Guest]

Interesting that he won, if Sherman know the container was leaking and could claim it, why didn't the person administering the test notice and throw it out, and have him do another one later in the day or something? No reason to run Sherman's name through the mud for that kind of oversight right there when the test is happening.