SCT said:
Can someone who has more experience researching him than I do give me a quick synopsis on what the conventional wisdom says about this guy off the field. He says he failed the test because of codeine. I guess what I'm getting at is are we dealing with a crazy person who has a zero Control and is likely to screw this up and be done or are we dealing with a miss understood kid who is going to take care of business from now on? I realize nobody knows for sure but was hoping maybe some Cleveland insiders or locals have their finger on the pulse of the situation a little more than I do. TIA
Its all in the body of this thread but here are the quick cliff-note bullet points:
- got suspended in college for pot use at Baylor
- got kicked off the team at Baylor for pot use
- failed a drug test at Utah and never saw the field so he came out early and was taken in 2nd rd sup draft by CLE
- young talented kid came to team late and fell behind in camp
- saw field due to injuries and blew up
- this offseason he failed a drug test in Feb for codeine but that incident wasn't made public till later in spring
- early in spring Josh posted a Twitter pic of a guy 'who looked like Josh' bending over a bong toking
- the above pic was pulled but then Josh posted on Twitter that his fav TV program is WEEDS (wink-wink)
- he Feb codeine failed drug test was made public when NFL announced Josh suspended 2 games
- he was issued a citation for excessive speeding in the summer while facing his suspension
Reporters who looked into the 2-game suspension reported that Josh would have HAD to have failed at least two other drug tests before the codeine failed drug test was made public.
Also the codeine explanation by Josh is flimsy as codeine/cough syrup is an intregal comonet of a recreational drug concotion called 'purple-drank' which really cast dispersions on Josh's explanation.
Add: the team lost both games he was suspended. Not long after he returned from his suspension it was made public that Josh was the celebrity host of a party at a local bar the night of the Browns Thursday Night game against Buffalo.
Very immature young man, extremely talented. Has or had buddies who smoke a lot of pot that he has to distance himself from.
His buddies and his compulsion to smoke pot has already cost him a first round contract and two game checks and that issue could possibly ruin his career before he earns the contract that could set him up financially for life.
Um, he's also got to lighten up on the partaying while at the same time completely put down the pipe and lay-off the, drank, Tweet'n, and lead foot'n too.
Oh and for those proposing that the Browns would trade him for a second, let alone a fourth round draft pick, they need to put down the crack pipes.
