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Jesus Christ, this is the post shown on the main page for this particular forum. I almost had a damned heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack.

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If this is true I think i'll kill myself!!!!!! :cursing::death:

BTW, this would have been reported to Bengals.com right away, I hope..... :unsure:

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There was also mention of this on Profootballtalk.com. They hear it is substance

abuse related, but cannot get comments or leaks from anyone at

the league office. Hope it is bogus, or our defense will suffer

a huge blow.

Even if it was substance abuse related, the first offense, and even the SECOND offense (which would require being punished for the first) do not lead to a year's suspension. Ask Ricky how many times he had to be busted to get a year off!

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There was also mention of this on Profootballtalk.com. They hear it is substance

abuse related, but cannot get comments or leaks from anyone at

the league office. Hope it is bogus, or our defense will suffer

a huge blow.

Even if it was substance abuse related, the first offense, and even the SECOND offense (which would require being punished for the first) do not lead to a year's suspension. Ask Ricky how many times he had to be busted to get a year off!

Yeah, if anything, wouldn't it be 4 games at the most? Unless he failed multiple tests over the offseason?

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Where is all of this information coming? No one has shown where they are getting this info. The media would jump all over this if any of this was true. They would love nothing better to grab this because of the recent problems Bengal players have been in. Until there is anything to support this, I do not believe any of it.

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I thought that you had to be caught doing drugs 1st to even get put in the program, I have not heard of anything involving OThurman, the guy from PFT said that he can't validate story, but stay tuned...

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Did Florio write this gem too?

Actually, he's the one who's saying it's horses**t. To get a year suspension, as I understand it, Odell would have to:

1) Fail two drug tests during the season, and have this not get out;

2) Fail two more drug tests in the offseason, triggering the 1-year suspension (4 positives) before he could serve the 4-game suspension (3 positives), which is the first public indication that a guy's in the program assuming the league keeps the test results under wraps (which it rarely does).

That'd be a lot even for Cheech Henry.

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Ouch, I opened this up and thought there is no freaking way that one team could have this much bad luck after rebuilding and being competitive once again. I hope for all the Bengals that is is not true...that would be such a huge blow to the defense. I will keep my fingers crossed...and the Bengals have to keep Odel away from Henry and Nicholson. He doesn't need any accomplice charges to go along with the rumor.

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PFT has stated there is no real merit to this yet - but I am wondering where it came from exactly - even they don't usually report things based on nothing but pure speculation or some dork faking a post on a forum somewhere.

They HAVE to know that a 1st violation, or even a 2nd or 3rd, does not result in a year's suspension.

Now if there is a particular substance used that does call for more harsh penalties than others (not sure what that would be - steroids?) then I'm not aware of it.

I think it's pretty bush to put this out there though as even a "rumor" by PFT - they just lose even more credibility than they've already lost.

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