Martavis Bryant suspended for season

[tims4wins]

Link forthcoming

It's like all these other "contenders" just want to hand the AFC to the Pats

#Steelers WR Martavis Bryant facing a year-long suspension for violating @NFL substance abuse policy, per source (@Dejan_Kovacevic was 1st)

Rapsheet

 

[Mugsy's Walk-Off Bunt]

How many violations does it take to get suspended for the SEASON?

Edit autocorrect bullshit

 

[CoffeeNerdness]

Great for the Pats/AFC contenders, but bad for football because he's a very fun player to watch.

 

[BigSoxFan]

Josh Gordon has a new friend!

 

[Garshaparra]

How many violations does it take to get suspended for the SEASON?

Edit autocorrect bullshit

Three, apparently. Nice discussion here from when Bryant received his 4 game suspension last August: http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/pittsburgh-steelers-nfl-features-news-blog-long-form/2015/8/28/9218621/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-nfls-substance-abuse-policies-martavis-bryant-steelers

 

[wibi]

Can we change the title until the suspension is actually given?

 

[tims4wins]

Um he was suspended. Just because he is appealing doesn't mean he wasn't suspended. No different than the fact that Brady was suspended four games last year.

 

[wibi]

Um he was suspended. Just because he is appealing doesn't mean he wasn't suspended. No different than the fact that Brady was suspended four games last year.

Can you find a link that actually says he was suspended and not just facing a suspension? Because I havent been able to find anything that says he is suspended and appealing not just facing suspension

EDIT: Even the Steelers have come out and said

“Per team policy, we’ll have no comment until there’s an announcement from the NFL,” Steelers spokesman Burt Lauten said this afternoon.

 

[mauidano]

I guess it's his agent doing all the talking. No comment from the Steelers and the NFL yet. That being said or not said; "how fucking dumb can you be?".

http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2016/03/12/Steelers-wide-receiver-Martavis-Bryant-appeals-possible-one-year-NFL-suspension/stories/201603120121

 

[tims4wins]

Martavis Bryant's agent Tom Santanello is appealing 1-year suspension. Bryant suspended 4 games last year for failed drug tests.

@wibi

 

[tims4wins]

#Steelers WR Martavis Bryant is appealing his yearlong suspension for violating @NFL substance abuse policy. CBA spells it out clearly tho.

rapsheet

@wibi

 

[wibi]

Thanks. Hope it wasnt too much trouble for you to find the tweets saying he was actually suspended

 

[tims4wins]

What was unclear about the first tweet I linked? In the opening post

 

[KiltedFool]

Bryant dropped his appeal and will start serving his suspension immediately. He apparently has significant problems with depression, and at least part of the failed testing was a result of not showing up for tests, which are counted as automatic fails.

“We’re all stunned, me included,” Fettner said, shortly after broke news of the ban Saturday. “We clearly miscalculated the issue. His isn’t a party issue. It’s a coping issue and a depression issue, and he’s got to take care of it.”

Bryant's suspension stems from multiple missed drug tests, Fettner said, while also acknowledging Bryant has a problem with marijuana.

The multiple missed tests – which count the same as failed tests – explains why Bryant faces banishment for at least one year, rather than a 10-game suspension for his latest violation after serving a four-game suspension to start last season.

“This is the biggest cry for help I’ve ever seen. And that hurts. It hurts us to see,” Fettner said. “He’s 24 years old and he’s got to get right, whatever it is.

“If you talk to anybody’s family that has depression, they will be talking about these same things – the (despondence), the withdrawal, the head-in-the-sand despair – just trying to cope.”