DOLPHINS: Defensive end Dion Jordan has been reinstated by the NFL on a conditional basis after sitting out last season for his latest violation of the league’s substance abuse policy.
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“I definitely think I’m a different person, ” he said. You’ve done your studying, you worked hard, you’ve run, you’ve lifted, all those things. “That’s for sure. You know, nothing really gets done here (speaking), but out there on the field, I can do everything I came here to do on the field and by my actions”. “Most people might not see it that way”. So this blog is created to feature the nuggets that don’t appear in print. They’re like deleted scenes on a Blu-ray/DVD or the youth football players who ride the pine during the game but get to shine afterward in an extra session often called “The Fifth Quarter”.
Brown said Gordon is excited to be back and the team is glad to have him again. He did not answer when asked if he went to rehab, but promised he is much more willing to accept help.
Goodell’s acknowledgement that the football family may be a positive source of support and rehabilitation for a player in Gordon’s circumstances is surprisingly progressive given what we’ve seen in the recent past. And it plays a part on both sides. “I want to buy into an organization, a loving, caring, providing facility”. “He in earnest wants to make the most of this opportunity”.
Try as they may, the other Browns quarterbacks can’t catch him.
Training camp is an opportunity for wide receiver Josh Gordon to hit the “reset button”, Jackson said, accompanied at a press conference by team vice president Sashi Brown.
Gordon and Coleman paired together could transform a weak position into a strong one for the Browns. “There’s an energy here that I don’t think I’ve felt yet here”. They believe in me and understand who I am. “But things turn around”. It takes people some learning. You name a guy and move forward, and everybody gets behind that guy. I think he’s in tip-top shape. He spent the past four seasons in Cincinnati, where he coached running backs for two years before taking over as coordinator for one of the league’s most potent attacks.
Gordon, the Browns talented but troubled wide receiver, will in reality be serving the final four games of what amounts to a 20-game suspension when he sits out the first 25 percent of this season.
Dressed in an orange jacket and matching orange shorts, Browns coach Hue Jackson is easy to spot on a practice field crowded with players, coaches, ball boys and onlookers.
“Whatever it is, we have to be able to rise to the occasion and go play”. Obviously, we are going to try him there.
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“Absolutely, it’s a palpable difference”, said linebacker Paul Kruger, who signed with Cleveland in 2013 after winning a Super Bowl in Baltimore. He’s still Robert Griffin. “He’s super hungry. You could tell in everything that he said, everything he does, that he just wants to work”. “That’s one of my best friends”. It’s not a mistake that my locker is next to his. He looks out for me. I know how great Cleveland fans are. McCown started eight games last season before breaking his collarbone.
