Aldon Smith only suspended 9 games

Seems crazy to me that he only got 9 days, while Gordon got a full season.

Aldon Smith was found crashed into the tree, tires spinning drunk out of his ****ing mind, found to be part of a weapons smuggling ring, and then arrested at an airport after flipping out and threatening to blow up a bomb. All this in one season+the offseason = 9 games

Josh Gordon has one of his two piss samples barely over the limit for THC (weed) = a whole season.

I know there is the whole "strikes" issue and that Gordon is on strike two now, but seriously what a slap on the wrist for Smith - who has some real legitimate issues compared to Gordon, who apparently just likes to get a little bit high occasionally.

Although I think Smith got a ridiculously small punishment, I wish people would stop comparing every light penalty to Josh Gordon. People forget that after he was suspended for the year and before his appeal, he got a DWI and if you are in the drug program you are not allowed to drink alcohol. I bet without the DWI, he probably would have gotten a reduced sentence.

9 games. I agree Gordon got hosed. His failed tests while in the league were for Codeine and a miniscule amount of weed. And the thing is who benefits from it? Not Gordon, not the fans, not the NFL. NFL loses a great player, young player loses any structure.

BTW, it is a nine game suspension not a nine day. I think that is appropriate:

NFL suspended 49ers OLB Aldon Smith nine games for violating the league's personal conduct and substance abuse policies.
The 49ers have a Week 8 bye, so Smith won't be available until Week 11. As San Francisco has already lost ILB Navorro Bowman (ACL, MCL) and NT Glenn Dorsey (torn biceps), it's fair to wonder if the team will be forced to play more aggressive offense in Colin Kaepernick's second year as a starter. Smith's ban turned out to be even longer than expected, but it's a fair punishment regardless following Smith's array of off-field transgressions. The 49ers will turn to special teams type Dan Skuta and sophomore Corey Lemonier opposite Ahmad Brooks. It's an enormous downgrade in pass-rush ability

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http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/6477/aldon-smith

Rob0729 said:

Although I think Smith got a ridiculously small punishment, I wish people would stop comparing every light penalty to Josh Gordon. People forget that after he was suspended for the year and before his appeal, he got a DWI and if you are in the drug program you are not allowed to drink alcohol. I bet without the DWI, he probably would have gotten a reduced sentence.

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With Henderson hearing the appeal, he had no shot. The DWI was supposed to have no bearing on the appeal, it's separate issue with a separate punishment.

Armchair Quarterback said:

With Henderson hearing the appeal, he had no shot. The DWI was supposed to have no bearing on the appeal, it's separate issue with a separate punishment.

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The fact that he hasn't shown that he is willing to keep his nose clean and has learned from his mistake I think can be taken into effect. It is the same thing if you are on probation, a judge can revoke your probation if you are arrested for a DWI, but the DWI is a complete separate trial and punishment.

Rob0729 said:

The fact that he hasn't shown that he is willing to keep his nose clean and has learned from his mistake I think can be taken into effect. It is the same thing if you are on probation, a judge can revoke your probation if you are arrested for a DWI, but the DWI is a complete separate trial and punishment.

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Which is why Aldon Smith getting only nine games is a bit of an outrage.

Numerous DUI's plus numerous times being arrested for non DUI related instances.

The league's punishments are arbitrary at best and straight up favoritism at worst. The league would be best to stop caring about what recreational drugs players use and focus more on what performance enhancing drugs they are using.

Even at that, I imagine alcohol abuse is what leads to a lot of these stupid decisions in the first place. Players beating their spouses and bringing guns to the airport are far more disgusting in the eyes of society. If any of us did what Aldon Smith did, we would be in jail.

This sucks for the Pats. That means the Broncos will face the 49ers without Smith.

More NFL fine weirdness: Dre Kirkpatrick was fined $22,000 for a rough hit on special teams. Haloti Ngata was only fined $8200 for deliberately kicking someone after a play.

And he can be around team facilities/meetings...sweet suspension.

chasa said:

Which is why Aldon Smith getting only nine games is a bit of an outrage.

Numerous DUI's plus numerous times being arrested for non DUI related instances.

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Yep. Felony assault and gun charges..separate incidents...The man in a menace.

Brady_to_Moss said:

And he can be around team facilities/meetings...sweet suspension.

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He can attend meetings but Browner can't?

Aldon smith should get a full season off to go to anger management and behavior classes or whatever while he learns to act like a citizen. Gordon should get the 9 games and attend classes for weed or even a rehab. Aldon Smith has demonstrated dangerous to society behavior while Gordon takes a hit of weed

Ironically, I think this might not be so bad for the Niners in terms of getting ready for the playoffs. Keeps Smith rested and ready (and injury free) until the important games late in the season.

Rob0729 said:

This sucks for the Pats. That means the Broncos will face the 49ers without Smith.

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Yup, Manning has really been getting off the hook with the Cardinals and 49ers defense being depleted. I don't think he's going to struggle against them much now.

Doing lines of marijuana is much, much, much worse than punching your wife or drunk driving so I think Gordon should have just been kicked out of the league.

What if a child was watching and saw the needle marks from where he injected his pot? Disgraceful.

I'm imagining a world where players don't get punished for pot. I don't think society would collapse. I don't think the world would be any different except fewer suspensions.

Since this rule doesn't help the players, the NFL or society I'm not sure why it's a rule at all. But ya damn well better follow it or you're guilty of not obeying- which must be punished.

I actually thought he'd only have been suspended for 6 games or so. Good for Goodell for suspending him for more than 1/2 the 2014 season.

you'll need a time machine to take back to 1937 when Harry J Anslinger, pocketing the 50 grand under the table money from DuPont chemical, brought legislation outlawing marijuana before the congress.

Here is an excerpt that highlights the ridiculous bigotry and racism behind the illegalization nationwide.


The campaign against cannabis heated up after repeal of Prohibition. "I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigaret can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents," a Colorado newspaper editor wrote in 1936. "The fatal marihuana cigarette must be recognized as a DEADLY DRUG, and American children must be PROTECTED AGAINST IT," the Hearst newspapers editorialized.

Harry Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, headed the charge. "If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster marihuana, he would drop dead of fright," he thundered in 1937.

An ambitious racist (a 1934 memo described an informant as a "ginger-colored nigger") who had previously been federal assistant Prohibition commissioner, Anslinger railed against reefer in magazine articles like 1937's "Marihuana: Assassin of Youth." It featured gory stories like that of Victor Licata, a once "sane, rather quiet young man" from Tampa, Fla., who'd killed his family with an axe in 1933, after becoming "pitifully crazed" from smoking "muggles." (Actually, the Tampa police had tried to have Licata committed to a mental hospital before he started smoking pot.)

It continues to this day. I heard a radio personality on WPRO in RI declare as fact that Hitler used marijuana AGAINST our troops in WW 2, at which point the phone lines lit up with reefer madness level calls of hysteria, which she took the rest of the afternoon. Hideous,truly unbelievable slander pouring out over the airwaves because these people believed what she stated as "fact" was actually true.

500,000 deaths a year worldwide directly attributable to alcohol consumption. Millions of deaths directly attributable to tobacco use. It's all marijuana's fault, though. Welcome to the New World Disorder In The House. BTW, I do NOT use hemp in any form even though my doctor has suggested various forms of therapeutic hemp based remedies for age related pain. I used a balm last year on an arthritic knee joint and found it to be fantastic. The best stuff I've ever found. I don't use it though because I do not want any trace of cannabinols in my blood system. Not today...not in this country filled with lying, weasely sell outs ready to screw anybody for any whack job reason they dream up, just because they have the legal power.