With word today that the Dallas Cowboys have triggered the NFL's Club Remittance Policy for having three suspended players, maybe it's time to continue to show how stupid the NFL is for allowing the conduct, culture, and idiocies associated with The National Bloodfeast to continue.
This, according to compilation site Spotrac (which I now use after the NFL decided it was not only going to fine far fewer players for dirty bullshit hits, but not publicize it) is a long list of players suspended by the league (with an assist by a similar Wikipedia page on the subject):
Starting with the non-drugs suspensions (and if I find more on a Google search or something, I'll add)
- Cincinnati Bengals: Vontaze Burfict: 3 game suspension for a repeated amount of dirty hits. He, to my knowledge, is the longest-suspended player for actually having a record of dirty hits, and has well earned the "privilege". With a salary of $2,850,000 for his dirty bullshit in 2016-17, the forfeit is $502,941. He will not play in any capacity until Week 4.
- New England Patriots: Tom Brady: 4-game suspension, Deflategate. Now he's done a very interesting end-around on his contract, according to his page on Spotrac. I don't know if this is with the suspension in mind, but I think it is. His base salary each of the next two years is $1,000,000. It's all signing bonus ($28,000,000) and the last two years (2018, 2019) are $14,000,000 each. That's legal???? If that is legal, his forfeit is $235,294.
- New York Jets: Sheldon Richardson: 1 game suspension for personal conduct and his role in a drag race. With a $1,776,000 base salary, Sheldon forfeits $104,470 for his little 143 MPH stunt in July 2015. And his contract was not voided... WHY?
- Atlanta Falcons: Jalen Collins: 4 games: PEDs. Forfeiture is $290,257.
- Baltimore Ravens: Nick Boyle, suspended in December for the last 4 games of the 2015-16 season, has been banned the first 10 games of 2016-17 for a second round of PEDs. As of right now, he is not cut, but many in Baltimore believe he should be. Should be serve the suspension, he forfeits $308,824 of his $525,000 salary.
- Baltimore Ravens: Darren Waller: 4 games, substance abuse. Forfeiture is $123,529. The team situation at tight end might make it very easy (and the fact that another suspension means a sizable check to the league on top of the forfeitures!) that Waller has probably played his last in Baltimore.
- Buffalo Bills: Karlos Williams: 4 games, substance abuse. Forfeiture is $136,197. Williams is having problems getting in shape in Buffalo on top of the suspension -- he may be gone.
- Chicago Bears: Jalen Saunders, a member of the practice squad, was also suspended twice, originally for four games, extended to 10, for a drug of substance abuse. He'd been in the league two years, and the Bears were his SIXTH team -- he'd been drafted by the Jets, signed for four years and $2.7 million. There is no word he's been cut by the Bears, nor how much money he's further lost for forfeiting from his 2016 salary. If he plays, he has four games to serve.
- Cleveland Browns: Armonty Bryant: 4 games, PEDs. Forfeiture: $158,823. And probably more coming: Drug possession conviction in court on the 28th of July. Additional forfeiture determined upon further suspension, but he may be done.
- Cleveland Browns: Josh Gordon: Reinstated to the league after his hearings, but banned 4 additional games of the 2016 season upon being reinstated for his long record of violations of the drug policies. If he stays clean to game 5, it would be his first game since 2014. 2016 forfeiture is $251,389.
- Dallas Cowboys: Randy Gregory: 4 games to start from February, more coming. That was for his FOURTH failed drug test (probably marijuana at that level, anything more serious and he's probably already in one-year banishment territory). And we now apparently have #5, and he's been ordered into rehab yesterday. Forfeiture for the first suspension is $143,154. One article says another suspension would be a half season on top of it, add another $286,308 to that number.
- Dallas Cowboys: DeMarcus Lawrence: 4 games, PEDs. That's a forfeiture of $353,367
- Dallas Cowboys: Rolando McClain: On the same day the NFL announced Lawrence's suspension, McClain was banned 10 games for another round of substance abuse drugs. Base Salary: $1.25 million. Forfeiture: $735,429, plus, if he's not released by the Cowboys, McClain has to give back the $750,000 signing bonus on his deal, but that's money to the Cowboys and not the league. (And word comes that might happen. He is officially Did Not Report to the Cowboys training camp when it opened.)
- As a result of these three suspensions, the Dallas Cowboys will be fined once the 2016 Club Remittance Policy is finalized. It appears as if the fine will be the cap for three suspensions, at least $250,000. An additional Gregory suspension may increase this number.
- Green Bay Packers: Mike Pennel: 4 games, substance abuse. The Packers have no plans to cut Pennel, so his forfeiture is $141,176.
- Green Bay Packers: Demetri Goodson: 4 games, PEDs. Forfeiture: $147,243.
- Indianapolis Colts: Arthur Jones: 4 games PEDs, and this one is costly. Five year, $33 million contract in 2014, has played 9 games with the Colts because of an injury since then. Sounds like a renegotiated base salary of $2,500,000 for 2016, meaning the forfeiture is $588,235.
- Jacksonville Jaguars: Aaron Colvin: 4 games, PEDs. Forfeiture: $167,833.
- Oakland Raiders: Marcel Reece: 4 games, PEDs. Three games to serve, and he was thrown out of the 2016 Pro Bowl, his fourth consecutive selection. $816,079 is the total forfeit, of which 3/4 of it ($612,060) applies to 2016.
- Oakland Raiders: Aldon Smith: 1 year, PEDs plus personal conduct, November 17, 2015. He is ineligible to play until at least Nov. 17, 2016 -- and that's if a recent video which he allegedly posted possibly smoking marijuana does not end his career. Base 2016 salary, if he ever sees any of it, is $1,250,000. (Of the $11M in his contract, over half is roster bonuses.) Forfeiture, pending a Nov. 17 reinstatement (misses 9 games of the 2016 season): $661,765.
- Pittsburgh Steelers: Martavis Bryant, banned minimum 1 year, strike three with substance abuse. The GM of the Steelers said days later in March Martavis would not be cut, so the forfeiture is his entire 2016 salary: $709,805.
- Pittsburgh Steelers (yes, it hasn't taken place yet, but it's pretty certain it will): Le'Veon Bell: 4 games for missing a drug test -- it is being appealed. This would be his second round with the drug suspensions, as he was banned for a 2014 DUI and marijuana situation for two games (down from three) in 2015. If he's banned the 4 games, Bell forfeits $227,506.
- San Francisco 49ers: Aaron Lynch, 4 games, substance abuse. Forfeiture: $152,824.
- Tennessee Titans: Andrew Turzilli: 4 games, PEDs. Forfeiture: $123,529, if he makes the Titans roster. It is not hard to understand this one. Titans previously cut him and the 49ers only had him on the practice squad. Probably needed the juice to make the league.
- Washington Redskins: Silas Redd: Tossed out of the league indefinitely for repeated violations of substance abuse policies. Forfeiture is the full $525,000 of the final year of his contract.
- Free Agent: Frank Alexander: 1 year, marijuana strike three, November 24, 2015. Ineligible until at least Nov. 24, 2016. Alexander was last with the Panthers, contract expired. Out until past Thanksgiving, his only hope of seeing the field in 2016 is a reinstatement plus probably injury needs late in the season.
- Free Agent: Taylor Mays: 4 games, substance abuse. Doubtful he forfeits anything. Like Saunders, Mays has bounced around the league seriously, getting cut in the 2016 training camp by the Bengals (his second stint after four years with the team) after losing his job with the Raiders (and with trips to Minnesota, Detroit, and San Francisco sprinkled in).
- Free Agent: Nick Moody. 4 games, substance abuse. Three games last year with Seattle after getting cut in San Francisco. Contract expired.
- Free Agent: Will Hill: 10 games, substance abuse -- HIS FOURTH NFL DRUG SUSPENSION. Immediately cut by Baltimore in March when this went down, he was suspended THREE TIMES in New York with the Giants. Four games for PED's, four and six games for substance abuse, the third suspension finally got his ass cut by the Giants. It is now largely believed his NFL career is over.
- Free Agent: Bernard Pierce: 2 games for a 2015 DUI that got him cut from the Baltimore Ravens. Pierce is the subject of an interesting story. He was picked up by Jacksonville later in the year, and was the player who accidentally blocked his own player on a kickoff return after suffering a concussion.
- Free Agent: Jace Davis, 4 games for a DUI that got him cut from the Denver Broncos.
- Free Agent: Johnny Manziel, 4 games for a massive list of misdeeds, some of which involved drugs of substance abuse, that got him cut from the Cleveland Browns.
8 free agents, 14 teams.
On top of the Cowboys already having to cut a check: The Packers, Browns (one of the reasons they finally shit-canned Manziel, who would've been #3??), Raiders, Steelers, and Ravens are all one more suspension from having the same.
And, for those who want to think the NFL gives a motherfucking shit: There are precisely ZERO known players now suspended for domestic violence.
Yeah... Sure...
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