Quote:Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell claimed last month that he never missed a drug test. He reportedly missed more than one.

Ian Rapoport reported on NFL Network that Bell missed “several” drug tests.

Bell was already in the NFL’s substance-abuse program and was suspended for the first two games of last season in connection with a 2014 arrest for marijuana possession and DUI. Players who have never violated the policy are generally only tested for drugs of abuse once a year, but players who are already in the policy, like Bell, are subject to many tests.

Bell is appealing the suspension, but realistically, it’s hard to see why he would win an appeal: The NFL’s drug-testing policy makes clear that players are required to make themselves available to drug testing, and a player who misses several tests has clearly violated the policy. Missing one test could be a miscommunication. Missing several tests is a lot harder to explain away.

(07-24-2016, 10:37 AM)StoneTheCrow Wrote: He'll get it reduced to 2. Then he'll smoke 2 joints before he smokes 2 joints, and then he'll smoke 2 more.

(07-24-2016, 11:18 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: He'll probably get it reduced WHILE smoking joints with Goodell.

(07-24-2016, 02:20 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: I think the several tests will be lumped into ONE offense..... Unfortunately.

(07-24-2016, 02:20 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: I think the several tests will be lumped into ONE offense..... Unfortunately.

(07-25-2016, 11:50 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Well Bell says he won't miss any games:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/07/25/leveon-bell-says-he-wont-be-missing-games/

Of course he didn't know it was illegal to smoke dope while driving, so we might want to take this with a grain of salt.

(07-24-2016, 10:37 AM)StoneTheCrow Wrote: He'll get it reduced to 2. Then he'll smoke 2 joints before he smokes 2 joints, and then he'll smoke 2 more.

(07-25-2016, 11:55 AM)wildcats forever Wrote:

(07-24-2016, 09:20 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Gotta wonder if the Bengals, or any other team for that matter, would be afforded the same convenience.  

(07-25-2016, 01:36 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Sadly, I only knew this tune from 40oz to Freedom. 

(07-25-2016, 11:53 AM)yellowxdiscipline Wrote: If somehow he walks away without a suspension, then i'll lose any faith that I had left that there is some competency still left with the people running the league.

(07-24-2016, 02:20 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: I think the several tests will be lumped into ONE offense..... Unfortunately.

(07-26-2016, 11:45 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: This is comical.

You DO realize he's already been suspended?  Why would you suspend him if you planned or expected to overturn YOURSELF on appeal?

(07-27-2016, 04:47 PM)GMDino Wrote: Uh...no?

But anyway he hasn't had his appeal yet and there is a neutral person who hears the appeal now.

(07-27-2016, 10:15 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: What's his excuse going to be?  That he had a new phone and no one knew the number each time they tried to test him?  He does realize that they could just call the Steelers and get his new number, right?  Even if they didn't have it on-hand for the first one, don't you think they would have been calling everyone that knows him to get it to avoid a suspension of one of their best players?

This isn't 1640 where the only way to contact people is to send a horseback rider with mail.

Furthermore, don't you think he would have thought to say "hey, maybe I should give them my new number?"  Not to mention that he missed a lot, and do you seriously think the NFL wouldn't have contacted him somehow and he would have told them the new number?