royboy_3831 said:
If that's true about only 5% being reported, why wouldn't they protect a superstar like Merriman?
I can only think of two reasons why they perhaps made an example of Merriman, a oposed to letting most of the other positive tests slide by.
Firstly, perhaps because he had such a great rookie season, the NFL pulled him down a peg by telling him that he cant just walk into the league fully roided up and expect a free ride.
Secondly, he might have been a walking pharmacy with the number of substances in his system and the NFL thought it was beyond a joke that he should get away with it.
I dont know why he got made a scapegoat, and more importantly I dont know why its been swept aside like it has done, especially after he came out definantly saying he would fight all charges and try and clear his name, and then a few days later turned around and said that he would accept it like a man. Youre either innocent and you want to clear your name/rep, or your guilty and you do the time, you cant have it both ways.