Some have stronger leadership and can bring a team togheter and make it go their way. Tom Brady 1st year at the Bucs is a prime example. A QB has one the best pedestal to drive the most influence in a team environment, that is a talent not all of them have.

I don't see Baker very high in the good leadership department, but i wouldn't make it a statement, i can be wrong about him.

For a moment I thought it said Jimmy Carter instead of what's in the title.

Lol, no chance.

Let me get a quick verdict and a small fine with an agreement to not face the real charges at a later date? Yup, sounds good to me.

I definitely agree with you that he looked competent on the Rams, who have one of the best offensive friendly coaching staffs in the NFL.

The Bucs coaching staff looked hapless last year - they made Tom Brady look bottom-tier. Couple with the fact that it's only a 1 year deal (no upside for Bucs for him to play great), and the fact that they're shedding talent...

...leads me to believe that Bucs are tanking next season! I expect to see a a bunch of 1 year rentals, heavy on draft, maybe some more trades. Tearing down the house that Tom built up over the past 2 years.

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Must be nice to be famous

I finished in 1990, but worked in sports for a few years more and yes the vast majority of athletes were taking something. There were a few that didn't be they were genetic freaks and now with the amount of money being thrown around it's almost a requirement to stay in the game.

Don’t care!

That’s a very wrong impression. You can find any number of stories that all say the same thing: most Olympic athletes are not in good financial shape.

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Imagine getting downvoted because nobody knows it's a copy pasta

It doesn't even have to be that high of level of competition, just highly competitive. I went to high school in the late 80s/early 90s. Cross country runners at multiple schools in our area were openly blood doping with autologous transfusions. Steroids were openly sold in the weight room and football locker room (and we were just a mid-tier football program). Supplements were constantly coming on the market ahead of regulation; even as a high school athlete I took supplements in good faith that later ended up banned.

We had a very small handful of generational athletes are our school during my time there (at the level where some here would certainly recognize their names). Some were clean at the high school level, some were not. Inevitably the ones who used performance enhancers started having injury issues at the college level that became worse in their post-college careers (olympic/pro). I don't know for certain if the clean athletes stayed clean after high school, but I learned from a couple of them later how hard it was to stay competitive against the wide spread use of PEDs in their various sports.

Yeah but there is still some guardrails and oversight. I meant make a full on open class like top fuel dragsters.

His main problem: he was drafted by Cleveland.

That alone doomed him, and he may never shake the reputation that came with playing for said dumpster fire.

Too late for that...

If only she was just invading another country and actually killing that country's athletes. When will these athletes learn?!

This is all about publicity for Miller, and everyone is just spreading the shit everywhere.

If I'm getting death threats, I'm not hiring security so I can be seen at a basketball game. I'm staying home. But, I'm not an idiot. So there's that.

Normies cant wrap their mind around athletes using PEDs, they still think you can succeed without drug use, or somehow drug use alone is enough to get you there

How much time did you really save not including the “igh” from right?

I find they tend to be good at running every year

Have a couple drinks at the clubhouse, and then go to Taco Bell.

Or she just is giving it up and doesn’t care about the tests. Or getting clean. Who knows.

Oh my sweet summer child…

I was an athlete for a D1 collegiate program about 10 years ago, and I made many athlete friends from this time who would go on to play professional sports, with some even still competing professionally. I can assure you, steroids and PEDs are being used by the vast majority of athletes with a financial stake in their sport or competition. I’ve told my story several times before on Reddit, and I suspect some people may be starting to piece together the school and/or the players I reference in my past re-tellings, and so I’m not going to tell those stories again. That said, know that steroid and PED usage is an open secret within these higher level athletic circles. There is money on the line, and with it being such an open secret, it’s well-known that if you want a shot at that money, then you’ll have to compete against enhanced competitors. If you’re told you can sign a multi-million dollar contract playing sports if you just take some performance-boosting drugs, what would you do? Obviously, most don’t get that opportunity, but they realize that if they want a shot at that opportunity then there are things they must do. In that sense, it becomes a logical choice, albeit a personal one.