Why is he not at least appealing?
He got 8 games because he violated the leagues substance abuse policy after his incident last May in which he was driving under the influence of prescription drugs. He pled guilty to a lesser charge.
Why is he not at least appealing?
I believe he can practice with the team all off-season but cannot come around at all when the season starts until after the 8th game. That's when he will have to stay in shape on his own, come back and be ready to go.
It sort of works out well with our schedule as our 8th game at Baltimore is on a Thursday so he should be able to come back the day after, get a long week to prepare (9 days) for Oakland at Miami.
This assuming that Nate Allen leaves him an opening but Nate will be inspired to play his former team.
I was talking about appealing the 8 game suspension. He could possibly get it reduced to 4 or 6 games.