OT: Randy Gregory tests positive for marijuana at NFL Combine
Did my due dilligence and didn't see it out there, but just found this article. Randy Gregory, a Nebraska defensive lineman who tallied 17.5 sacks over the last two seasons, tested positive for marijuana at the Combine.
“I blame myself,” Gregory told NFL Media’s Kimberly Jones in an interview. “And I know it sounds cliché, but there’s really no one else I can blame.”
I know its not the first time its happened, nor will it be the last, but a shame for someone to potentially jeopardize their future over something like this.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:20 AM ^
you'll be fine. Just don't smoke any more before the test. Weed usually clears within a few days for the occasional smoker. With daily and/or very heavy usage it can show in urine for up to a month.
Also consider working for a company not run by assholes. Unless you're a train driver, pilot, or something.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:26 AM ^
Yeah, I'm not worried. I smoke maybe 3-4 times per year nowadays, and those just so happened to be recently. And frankly, any company not willing to hire me over a tiny amount of marijuana in my system isn't a company I want to work for.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:30 AM ^
Check yourself first. You can go to CVS and buy an instant analysis cup test for $15. If it is negative you're clear. If it is positive you might want to think up a delay tactic. If you have a job now the best excuse is usually "They are sending me for training on the day in question, how about the week after?" Then check again. $30 is a small price to pay for piece of mind.
March 26th, 2015 at 11:36 AM ^
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March 26th, 2015 at 10:17 AM ^
hurt Mitch McGary's draft stock after he tested positive.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:17 AM ^
March 26th, 2015 at 10:19 AM ^
With pot having quasi-legal status in various places around the country, it seems a bit stupid to enact severe penalties for its use. The notion that its use automatically means a quick descent into degrading perversion, opiate addiction, and murder is idiotic to say the least.
However, it is an intoxicant. As somebody who smoked a decent amount of it back in the day, I can say from personal experience that anybody who asserts that it has literally no deleterious effect whatsoever on a user is naive. Alcohol is legal, but that doesn't mean it's smart to drink half a bottle of scotch the night before a blood test or combine workout, either.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:46 AM ^
but alcohol is usually gone within 24 hours and certainly after 4-5 days, while depending on the sampling method and weed usage, weed could show up 30+ days after he smoked it. So, he wasn't necessairly high the night before.
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March 26th, 2015 at 10:38 AM ^
From Matt Taibbi's draft maxims: Always draft the weed guy.
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/americas-second-greatest-reality-show…;
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March 26th, 2015 at 10:41 AM ^
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March 27th, 2015 at 10:10 AM ^
Yeah, but it is still the law. I don't agree with the prohibition on marijuana, but it isn't like he didn't know there would be drug testing at the combine or that it was illegal to smoke weed. I assume (with the rise of marijuana laws in various states) this will quickly become irrelevant, but this is the definition of self-inflicted wound.
March 26th, 2015 at 10:53 AM ^
March 26th, 2015 at 10:54 AM ^
Honestly, I would consider this to be a red flag.
I have no problem with people smoking weed, but why would you do it right before you get drug tested at the NFL Combine. It takes some pretty crappy planning to screw up like that.
March 26th, 2015 at 11:03 AM ^
March 26th, 2015 at 11:10 AM ^
Smoking weed is not a big deal. It really isn't, and I consider it to be less dangerous than alcohol.
But to me, this is still a red flag on Gregory. He knew the NFL Drug Policy (or he at least should know), and he went ahead and did it anyway. Only a month before the draft, arguably the biggest day of his life. Makes me really have to question his decision-making skills and his priorities if he's willing to put his career on the line like that in favor of getting high.
Again, I don't think weed is all that bad. It'll be legal sooner or later, but its not right now, and its certainly not looked upon kindly by the NFL. Gregory didn't do himself any favors with his future employer.
March 26th, 2015 at 11:10 AM ^
He's obviously dumb for failing this drug test. But seriously, theres gonna come a day when we're all looking back and saying, "We threw people in prison for this?" "We turned people down for jobs because of this?" Who gives a shit.
March 26th, 2015 at 11:38 AM ^
There are some jobs you can get fired from for cussing. You can't be a teacher or day care provider and say, "Man, that f***ing Hitler was kind of a douche, wasn't he? If he was alive today, I'd like to kick the s*** out of him." If you make a habit of that, you'll get canned. And those are just words.
March 26th, 2015 at 11:58 AM ^
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March 26th, 2015 at 12:06 PM ^
They probably can swear at home. But what if you're standing across the street from the school or day care and yelling cuss words at people?
So if you're not advocating smoking pot at work, are you advocating smoking pot...on your lunch break? On the drive to work?
So you're saying that if someone's lunch break was from 12:00 to 1:00 and he was getting high at 12:55 in the parking lot across the street, he would be 100% capable of performing his job when he walked back in the door at 1:00?
March 26th, 2015 at 11:59 AM ^
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March 26th, 2015 at 11:34 AM ^
RIP Robin Williams
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March 26th, 2015 at 11:42 AM ^
He should just claim that being downwind of Colorado, this was bound to happen. Have you ever been out there and seen [sic] how the wind blows?
(Obligatory Boulder joke about the wind: Colorado doesn't blow, Nebraska sucks.)
March 26th, 2015 at 11:55 AM ^
Loved the Robin Williams joke and also Turtleboy's comment on it not curbing appetite. No, it sure as hell won't do that!
March 26th, 2015 at 11:56 AM ^
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March 26th, 2015 at 12:41 PM ^
Failed the stupid test. If he doesn't have the impulse control to refrain from smoking pot when he knows he will be tested we can assume that he will have the same lack of impulse control with his new found money. I'm sure the NFL doesn't care about pot usage. What they care about is decision making since owners are making a hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars investment into people.
March 26th, 2015 at 12:48 PM ^
Honestly, all this does is make me even more upset and disappointed that Mitch McGary received the discipline that he did. Here is Gregory admitting to struggling with marijuana and tested positive TWICE, with basically warnings. Then McGary gets half a season for testing positive once with a first-time offense and while he wasn't even playing at that.
I hope this new stuff from the USC case coming out against the NCAA blows up in their face and publicly displays what a sham of an organization it is.