How about asking yourself this? If you weren’t doing anything wrong then why should you have to worry? By the way, the incentive is not to catch people as you say. It is to DETER people. Big difference. My suggestion is if you don’t like it then find another job that doesn’t do drug testing.

Except I think Scott’s point was if there’s only one company performing the only approved test, then that retesting process — either automatically to confirm a positive result or as part of a player appeal — is still suspect.

Scott never said he was against testing. Just that he questions the motives and neutrality of that sole test provider in proving the test is accurate.

The fact that we have for profit, private run prisons is a problem. For profit drug companies and health insurance is not doing our countries citizens any favors either.

HGH is only effective in people who have a natural hormone deficiency, people who have aged to the point where hormone production in their body has slowed down (there is no one in the NFL at that age), or possibly in speeding injury recovery.

HGH is not in any way related to steriods. There is no credible evidence that HGH has any side effects or long term health consequences.

HGH “testing” is extremely expensive and it’s accuracy highly questionable.

Given the amount of people on here who rail against the league trying take player safety more seriously, I am astounded by the amount of people who seem to care so much about what a player is putting into his body.

If anything, HGH only give players an advantage in getting jobs over other players ( just about all current research would say it doesn’t) , and why do you care about that?

And don’t give me any nonsense about your kids. If you’re still using NFL players as role models for your children, they should be taken away from you.

And to all of you jackwagons who assume a player is doing drugs because he resists testing, maybe he is against it on general principles.

I never do illegal drugs of any type, but I will never, ever, work for a company that requires me to take a drug test.

It’s a choice I have the freedom to make and NFL players (and lots of other people) don’t.

Unfortunately, 95% of the followers of this site are colossal ‘tards. So of course you’ll get the thoughtless comments like “derp, test him first.” Or, “derp what does he have to hide?”

and the problem is…….? if u catch somebody, say Brian Cushing, then u help take competitive advantage away, and if you cant catch anybody, then no harm, no foul.
it just seems like the players keep needing to complain about something…. its the tough guy metality. Give it up, you make more money and have more opportunity then u would ever have without football. well deserved for sure, but give it up. you got a nice deal as did the owners… be glad football is back

Or did you think people are built like that naturally? I’m sure at some point, Takeo Spikes actually had a neck…

What’s in it for the owners is that Congress’ givng the NFL exemption from Anti-Trust Law is the most important thing to the operation of the league.

Congress didn’t hold hearings on PED use in football because the league could tell Congress that they test for steroids. Baseball couldn’t say the same thing, and so a bunch of juicers got hauled before Congress to testify. That created a PR nightmare that still hasn’t gone away. The NFL doesn’t want that headache, or a Congress inclined to re-examine the NFL’s Anti-Trust Law exemption…

test that guy first

follow up memo, test all players who have ever failed a drug test, 2nd.

i don’t see the problem with testing, and i don’t understand how any player can ‘openly’ disagree with it.

This is preposterous!!! Everyone knows women don’t play in the NFL.

On a real note— It’s only a witch hunt if innocent people are being punished.

There are alot of very pissed off witches in that area.

Since the owners are paying for their health insurance, I thin they have a right to know they aren’t harming themselves. The blood test becomes less intrusive, because it will only be used if the urine tests is positive, so it would only happen about 10 times a year.

Asking trhe membership to take around 10 blood tests out of 1899 member to show the public that their sport is clean. Protects the integrity of the league and protects the players from being penalized because of a false positive.

Third party testers are not out to bust anyone. There are many variables involved in the NFL’s drug testing program. Any attempt at a “witch hunt” … quota system, etc is not going to happen.

Testing won’t fix the problem unless the results are truly reliable and the punishment is such that it is no longer worth it for players to take the risk.

A multi million dollar contract vs a 3 game suspension if you actually get caught is a no brainer.

What happend to Manny Ramirez is more like it. Miss a season… make players ineligable for the HOF, etc.

Players will surely stop if they are risking their career.

Prevention also needs to start much earlier in their sporting lives. High school players are already doing this stuff… hard for them to stop later.

If a kid gains 20lbs of muscle in a summer the coach should be questioning him, not congratulating him.

HGH testing will just remove the biggest offenders and give the illusion that the league is responsible, but it won’t fix the problem.