Tamba's Suspension More Costly?

[Micjones]

The story.

Chiefs linebacker Tamba Hali’s one-game suspension and one-game fine is guaranteed to cost him $1.32 million of his $11.25 million base salary for 2012. He’ll also lose a significant chunk of guaranteed money for 2013.

A league source tells PFT that the suspension for violating the substance-abuse policy voids $7.75 million in guaranteed payments for 2013, under the terms of a contact signed in 2011. Hali is still due to earn $12.25 million, and he’ll get all of the money he’s due to receive as long as the Chiefs don’t cut him.

If the Chiefs would cut Hali, he’d become a free agent, and he’d be able to sign elsewhere.

[Micjones]

Originally Posted by BlackBob

Did we ever get the story on what he did? Was it weed or roids?

I read that it was either alcohol or marijuana-related.

[Deberg_1990]

Cut him. Potential for locker room cancer.

[Chiefnj2]

If a player is suspended for one game and does not receive pay, does it get credited back to the salary cap?

[Ace Gunner]

All I heard on the radio yesterday was that he was somehow caught high. Don't know who caught him, but it must have been the league and rather than to tell the DEA one of their employees has been smoking weed, they just call it a flunk, suspend him and keep counting the $$$.

[Demonpenz]

I could see Tamba Getting cut next year. It would be a great way for the Chiefs to save money and getting rid of an older player.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

I could see Tamba Getting cut next year. It would be a great way for the Chiefs to save money and getting rid of an older player.

Especially one with bad feet.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

I could see Tamba Getting cut next year. It would be a great way for the Chiefs to save money and getting rid of an older player.

I could see Chiefsplanet cutting you next year. I hear you going to start on the pro bass tour anyway.

[RealSNR]

Off-topic slightly:

Does anybody know if Tamba has successfully emigrated his family over to the US since being drafted? I know money usually has nothing to do with these sorts of things, but it certainly can't hurt matters.

[Demonpenz]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

Especially one with bad feet.

Stranger things. I didn't ever see the cuts dealing Manning.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by SNR

Off-topic slightly:

Does anybody know if Tamba has successfully emigrated his family over to the US since being drafted? I know money usually has nothing to do with these sorts of things, but it certainly can't hurt matters.

yeah, they brought the weed.

[Demonpenz]

Originally Posted by HemiEd

yeah, they brought the weed.

[Garcia Bronco]

As a serious drug abuser, Halishag will have to get help to curb his serious addicton.

[Micjones]

Originally Posted by SNR

Off-topic slightly:

Does anybody know if Tamba has successfully emigrated his family over to the US since being drafted? I know money usually has nothing to do with these sorts of things, but it certainly can't hurt matters.

I remember hearing a story about that early in his career about how his mom was still in a war-torn region in Africa.
I've always wondered that myself.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

As a serious drug abuser, Halishag will have to get help to curb his serious addicton.

I shouldn't of encouraged you.

[Black Bob]

Finally found something... Sounds like it was weed and that makes me happy. I really dislike the roid users.

Hali’s suspension arises from previously unreported violation of law

Posted by Mike Florio on August 20, 2012, 5:01 PM EDT

Chiefs linebacker Tamba Hali has made his living slipping past blockers. At some point in the not-too-distant past, Hali and the team slipped an arrest, prosecution, and disposition of a criminal case past the media.

The decision of the NFL to suspend Hali for one game under the substance-abuse policy has created plenty of confusion, given that the substance-abuse policy as written doles out suspensions only in four-game and one-year chunks.

The exception arises when the player has violated the law.

In Hali’s case, the league office attributes the Hali suspension to just that — violation of the law that was previously unreported and undisclosed. This means that Hali has been arrested at some point for something relating to alcohol or marijuana or some other substance, and that the player, the team, and the league managed to keep the media from finding out about it.

Under the policy, a first offense for alcohol ordinarily results in a two-game fine only, barring aggravating circumstances. For second and subsequent offenses, a suspension is imposed. For offenses not involving alcohol, the first offense subjects the player to discipline of up to four games.

It’s our understanding, per a source with knowledge of the situation, that Hali’s offense likely involved marijuana, and that (as the league has announced) the penalty was a one-game suspension and a one-game fine.

The good news for the Chiefs is that it doesn’t mean Hali is in one of the advanced stages of the substance-abuse program, which would have put him on track for, eventually, a one-year banishment.

That said, the incident undoubtedly resulted in the placement of Hali in Stage One. Whether he emerges from the program or progresses to Stage Two or Stage Three depends at that point on whether he can choose football over the substance that got him in trouble with the law.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...lation-of-law/