Posted on 09/14/2007 11:05:41 AM PDT by Dysart
In his first comments since NFL commissioner Roger Goodell punished Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots for cheating without removing him from the sidelines, suspended Cowboys quarterbacks coach Wade Wilson told ESPN's Ed Werder that he intends to write a letter to the league office seeking an explanation for what he considers inconsistent enforcement of NFL policy, and might attempt to determine whether he can appeal his five-game suspension.
"I would say there is definitely a double standard being applied here," Wilson said Friday when reached at his home near the team's practice facility. "I don't want to be seen as a crybaby or as someone questioning the commissioner's decision, but I see some major inconsistencies here.
"To me, they're holding the organization accountable instead of the person." On Sept. 1, the NFL suspended Wilson for five games and fined him $100,000 -- nearly a third of his salary as an assistant coach. Wilson, who has suffered from diabetes for 24 years, admitted he purchased medication -- believed to be HGH -- banned by the league's substance abuse policy, although he said he did not know the rule applied to coaches as well as players. Wilson did so while working as an assistant coach for the Chicago Bears and turned over phone records and credit card receipts in a seemingly successful attempt to convince the league he was taking them for his own personal benefit and not distributing them to players.
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HGH is not going to give a coach any performance enhancement.
Lift his suspension or suspend Belichick.
He absolutely has a point; I think Goodell wanted to be seen as getting tough in the Wilson case because he’s a coach who should be held to higher standard and for another reason... but no objective person could look at this and say Belichick has been held to the same standard as Wilson. The team has been held accountable, rather than Belichick. A case could be made for no punishment at all for Wilson, but he himself is not arguing that, just a lighter suspension/fine.
“...”I would say there is definitely a double standard being applied here,” Wilson said ...”
Of course there’s a double standard here, Wade. You work for the Dallas Cowboys. Everybody hates them, (except for their fans). New England is now the favored team and has been for a while now. Why wasn’t BB suspended? For one thing, it would have hurt the chances for the sanctified (and cheating)Patriots to win another Lombardi Trophy. Since Wade is the quarterbacks coach, with Tony Romo taking the reins fulltime this year, anything that would hurt Dallas’ chance for trophy #6 is paramount.
"Thierry Hertoghe, MD, who specializes in hormone replacement therapy in Brussels believes that human growth hormone helps to promote the action of insulin. He believes that because HGH helps to direct the insulin to put glucose into the muscular cells, cardiac cells, and nerve cells, rather than the fat cells of the body HGH may actually help to improve diabetes.
Greg Fahy, Ph.D., of the Naval Medical Research Institute has stated that he may have discovered a method to possibly cure adult-onset diabetes using HGH. He has stated that his own experiments have shown that human growth hormone is very beneficial for diabetes."
The biggest difference is that while both violated league rules, Wade Wilson’s incident occurred because of a investigation by a District Attorney. The Patriots Rodney Harrison was suspended as a result of the same investigation.
The DA outranks even the NFL commish
But the DA was quoted as saying that he, “had no problem with Wilson” in that case.
I don’t think the DA is going after the individuals, just the pharmacy. It’s still part of an official criminal investigation, not just a violation of league rules.
Ok, then give him a $500,000 fine, and take away a 1st round draft pick. Then they will be even.
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