http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...robert-mathis/
They have it setup where a player can get the advice of a physician who is approved by both the NFL and NFLPA. And on top of that the drug isn't even allowed by the FDA and has been on the banned list for years.
At first glance I thought the league is painting a wide brush with what meds it's banning and that this could be a situation where Mathis is just trying to live his life; not take PED's.
But it now seems that he may be a player who knew the situation and just didn't care because he felt the reasons for taking the drug were justified.
What wasn't in the article is what the drug was... Just because a drug may have secondary benefits to enhance performance doesn't really make it a PED in my mind. I guess I'd like to see waivers be issued when a players doctor works with maybe team doctors and the league physician to take a PED for reasons other than enhancing performance. May already exist and we just don't know about it.
The players health and life outside of football should take precedence over the potential unfair advantage that may be a secondary effect of taking a PED. It's all a grey area.
The agents argument:
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...st-and-unfair/
The med supposedly was Clomid