Its not a raw deal. His fate was established far before now when he did so much weed that he got suspended for the first 4 games of 1999, and then when he did yet more weed and got suspended for the entire 2000 season. Then he failed to submit a test and faced suspension yet again, but he won his appeal. This time he did it yet again, and it was really just the last straw. He failed to submit a test. Sorry, but I'm not feeling sorry for the guy. He's got millions of dollars sitting right in front of him for playing a game that millions of people would love to get paid for but weren't necessarily born with the god-given talent he had, and he blows it because he keeps smoking weed, then blows it further by not staying on top of the stuff that he absolutely, positively MUST stay on top of to continue on in this league.
Bye bye Joshy. Don't let the door slap you in the @ss on the way out.
And its pretty much official now, I think pretty much every significant offseason acquisition by the Jets is a direct result of losing someone. How much you wanna bet the Jets knew right before the draft that Evans was in drug trouble again and thats why they moved up and took a DT rather than the speculation that they'd get a WR to replace Coles?
Lose Evans, replace with Robertson
Lose Randy Thomas, replace with Tom Nutten
Lose Laveraneous Coles, replace with Curtis Conway
Lose John Hall, replace with...crap I forget who, maybe Hollis...
Lose Chad Morton, replace with....(crickets chirping)...
They lost Richie Anderson too, I dont know who they signed...