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Random Drug Tests?

It's amazing how after any New Orleans Saint has a great season he always has a "Random Drug Test". In your opinion how random are they?

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EVERY player is drug tested between 4/20 and the start of training camp. Call it random if you want.

yes. 4/20

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Originally Posted by ScottF (Post 801791)

EVERY player is drug tested between 4/20 and the start of training camp. Call it random if you want.

yes. 4/20

I see what you did there. Well played sir. :smokin:

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Originally Posted by saintfan (Post 801794)

I see what you did there. Well played sir. :smokin:

I was just passing on the info...turns out someone at the NFL does have a sense of humor

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Originally Posted by Rugby Saint II (Post 801789)

It's amazing how after any New Orleans Saint has a great season he always has a "Random Drug Test". In your opinion how random are they?

The "random" portion of the testing is not who, but when. Every single player will get tested, but the time and date of the test is random.

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I recall Drew saying something about how it didn't feel random when they popped him for a test. The Saints just feel persecuted.

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Originally Posted by Rugby Saint II (Post 801805)

I recall Drew saying something about how it didn't feel random when they popped him for a test. The Saints just feel persecuted.

Brees was just making fun of the coincidence.

Drew Brees Gets Randomly Drug Tested After Saying He Wants to Play Until He's 45

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees can do nothing but laugh at the NFL's random drug-testing system after what happened this past week.

The 35-year-old said on Friday that he would like to play football for 10 more years, via NFL.com's Albert Breer:

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No doubt. There's no question. I'm not getting ahead myself, like it's a pipe dream, at 45. I understand the challenges that come along with that. But why not? If I can stay healthy, and I'm having fun and playing at a high level, why wouldn't I wanna do that? The biggest challenge is physically, the maintenance, the recovery, the way you train. You gotta hope that you stay healthy, but why not?

In what may have been an odd coincidence, Brees was randomly drug tested over the weekend:

At least the veteran quarterback was able to get a good laugh out of the timing.

This isn't the first time that the NFL has had suspicious timing with a "random" drug test in the past year. Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee was randomly tested after making a big hit during a game last season.

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It's not like each and every player isn't aware of it.

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Drug plan at my job... If you are not on drugs, you are fired.

https://i.imgur.com/Se8SS8F.gif

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I just wish someone would exain to me why everyone in the NFL uses so much Sudafed...

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Originally Posted by spkb25 (Post 801878)

I just wish someone would exain to me why everyone in the NFL uses so much Sudafed...

Not aware of any excessive use of Sudafed in the NFL. Former Chiefs player Vince Redd back in 2009 is one and the only other is Colts Arthur Jones who implied that "too much cough syrup" could cause the failed test in August of 2016.

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NFL Sponsor... McNeil Laboratories (a division of Johnson & Johnson)
Just taking a guess.

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There is often a misunderstanding that because there is random drug testing that its ONLY random drug testing. The Leagues drug testing policy has a clause for “Reasonable cause” that allows them to request a non random sample any time and pretty much for any reason.

If someone submits a statement to an Independant Administrator sayingtheybthey saw player-x visiting a well known PED distributing physician, the league can test that player at their deacretion.

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so players have to be careful not to sneeze in public just in case the big bad NFL goodhell is watching.

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Originally Posted by TheOak (Post 801972)

That makes sense. But that doesn't apply to Ingram's situation.

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Originally Posted by Rugby Saint II (Post 801805)

I recall Drew saying something about how it didn't feel random when they popped him for a test. The Saints just feel persecuted.

Last guy you'd ever have to worry about. lol

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Originally Posted by skymike (Post 801980)

Last guy you'd ever have to worry about. lol

The real question is have they ever tested Tom Brady? :confused:

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Like Pat Mcafee being "randomly" selected the day after making a crushing tackle!