The trade for Richardson was typical gambling drunk reactionary Schneider. The only good thing about free agency is you don’t give up draft picks, the player is secured for 3-4-5 years and you have an entire off season to get him ready. Richardson is like signing an expensive FA [$8m Per] with all the risks and trappings that come with that, but you get him only for 1 year, just before beggining of season AND giving up a 2nd rounder and a 7th [for Kearse]. This is not “going for broke” it’s typical impulsive degenerate gambling half in the bag Schneider.

And they had to restructure Baldwin to pay the bill for Richardson.

Schneider destroyed what could have been a dynasty assembled by Scot Mccloughan and Schneider's knowledge of Ted's draft board w/ silly deals like this and for Graham, Harvin, TE Miller, etc.

Thank god for Ted, who plans ahead and keeps his head. And when things don’t quite work out he signs an Ahmed Brooks and John Grecco for pennies on the dollar, he keeps all his picks and they’ll do 95% of what Richardson is gonna do [assuming Richardson doesn’t just do the FA bust boogie].

To make-up for their idiocy Seattle CHEATS. Their players are doped-up; they intentionally break the rules like by holding every play and now they’re sending at least 8 players to get Regenokine treatments. The blood is removed, heated, put in a centrifuge and only certain facets of blood are re-injected. How is this not an illegal performance enhancing? It’s a form of blood doping.

It also proves their 100% disregard for their player’s health. The part of blood re-injected increases the anti-inflammatory properties of the blood, that is, it reduces swelling and blocks pain, it does not heal like PRP. It’s like having a “natural” IV of ibuprofen 24/7. NO ONE knows the long term effects of this stuff on the liver, other organs or heart and circulatory systems. Also, knees were not built for football; when damage is done to the knee there is this thing called pain and inflammation that tells you stop doing that. Artificially, removing this built in safety system means a player can tolerate more pain and the swelling that should be there to protect the knee from further damage reduced. None of these guys will be able to walk at 50 or sooner; but Carroll, Schneider and the 12s don’t really care much about that!

Interesting to hear you mention Regenokine treatments. I was investigating that subject the other day when I saw they were sending 3 more players for the treatments. I had the same thought you did, but it is their own blood. There is nothing foreign being added. It's a slippery slope and I think this should be banned but it is seen as a healing procedure like putting someone in a hyperbaric chamber. Should those be outlawed also? Tough issue.

We'll see how this works out for the Hawks. We get to see Mr. Richardson Week 1.

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I dont see anything wrong with a Hypo-chamber and I dont think its a good comparison, it doesnt inject anything foreign into the body or enhance performance.

And restructuring the blood and re-injecting it is not "their own blood" because what they're injecting was not and cannot be produced by the body. It don't matter where it initially came from it is a substance 100% foreign to the body.

I think a better comparison is PRP [platelet rich plasma], which is legal. There you take out blood, alter it leaving behind platelets and re-injecting the manipulated blood.

But, Blood doping, which re-injects a person's blood after stuff other than red blood cells are removed, is banned. The extra red blood cells enhance performance.

Extra platelets don't enhance performance, they promote the BODY's HEALING, so they've decided its legal.

Regenokine doesnt promote healing; it masks the injury, it artificially masks pain by reducing inflammation, it allows a player to play on a more severely injured knee than he'd otherwise be able. Just like pain killers! It works like smelling salt to snap a guy out of a concussion so he can get right back out there. This will unequivocally lead to more injury and more long term damage done to the body.

This procedure also can last 2-4 years! No one knows what the long term effects of PRP is either; but after a week or so the extra platelets would have died and the blood coursing thru a players vessels is 100% normal and natural. Doing the Regenokine procedure a person's blood does not return to normal for years. Does this lead to more heart disease, will it cause clots to form faster or clots to break off easier overtime? No one knows.

This is putting a foreign body into the body for the sole purpose of enhancing performance, just like blood doping.

Another key factor in deciding what should be banned is whether all teams/players have equal access to it. If a treatment is otherwise okay but only the 3 or 4 richest franchises could afford it, it must be banned. Likewise, if a substance is unsafe in possibility or reality, it is only available to those willing to sacrifice their future health for a payday today; so it is not available to all and must be banned.

Oh and the full effects of Richardson wont be felt for a number of years, they lost a 2nd and a 6 or 7th rounder. If Seattle gets to SB, then the loss of future assets was probably worth it. Do ya think Richardson can make that much fo a difference? I don't!

I 100% understand WHY, but I think it's funny players in states where pot is legal can't smoke for pain management but they can have their blood drained, altered, and pumped back into them for pain management.