Brian Cushing’s Dad Frank Sticks up for Son
Written by playerpress.com, Tuesday November 09 2010
With the issues that the Houston Texans are having this season being 4-4 and in last place in the AFC South, questions about Brian Cushing’s performance have come into question by the Houston media.
Lance Zierlein of the Houston Chroncile's Z Report blog stated that Cushing looks "VERY average after his suspension for banned substances."
Cushing missed four games for violating the league's Performance Enhancing Drug policy and since he has returned, his performance has been down.
Although Cushing was not the main topic of Zierlein’s article, it definitely puts forth the notion that his performance is down because he no longer is using PED’s.
Cushing’s father Frank saw the article and took offense to it. He wrote Zierlein a passionate letter defending his son’s behavior.
Here is the letter:
“Lance, I am Brian Cushing's father and proud of it.
Do you still believe in BP, Enron, Wall Street, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and all the corporations that feed the American public like the NFL?
Do you know the NFL's testing procedures? Do you know what happened at the appeal's meeting in Indy? What was his score? Do you know the agreement for further testing and the scores?
Do you know that his nutrionist is the New York Jets nutrionist since college?
Amazing that you take one side and hang a clean cut kid!
Do you know that his score was a passing score 2 years ago and the NFL doctor didn't know that the Lab Man from Ohio State (USC 38, OS 3) dropped the passing grade from 10 to 6 (-40%).
Do you know that one of the finest medical school's in US tested him and stated that they found no indication he ever used steroids and/or performance enhancing drugs?
Do you know that he passed an ex-FBI lie detector test in Denver on this subject?
Do you know that the NFL blew off a 4 hour presentation by the former head of Houston medical school and the top HCG doctor in US, who stated Cushing was clean?
If you want the facts and the truth are home phone number is xxx-xxx-xxxx. We will be back in NJ from Thursday on!
I've got your number and will call you after Thursday. However, your representation that I "[hung] a clean cut kid" seems a little over the top, doesn't it? I pointed out that his play from this last year to this year has fallen off noticeably and if he doesn't get back to the level of play that we saw last year, Bob McNair is going to start to question people and want answers. As I've said all along, if he still plays like the same Brian Cushing that we all loved last year, I was fine with it. His level of play is going to be the ultimate indicator to the fans about whether or not he had help with his performance. If he plays balls-out like in 2009, nobody will care about the suspension and, in fact, people will start to wonder if the entire HCG thing was overblown.
I know what a nutrition and workout freak Cushing is.... he's legendary for that within NFL scouting circles pre-draft. I'm not sure what that has to do with any of the things I talked about. He loves playing football and the Texans need more of that, but he has to play like the Cushing from last year. He has to or people are going to look at him and judge him with a suspicious, if not condemning, eye. That's the nature of everyone now as it pertains to PEDs or suspicion of PEDs. Nobody in Houston is against your son, but unfortunately, he has a microscope on him and he needs to play really well right now not only to back fans off from thinking the worse, but also because most of us believe that he is the best player on the defense.”
In Cushing’s defense, he has moved to a new position this season to middle linebacker and any player in the NFL could struggle when in a new position that he is not used to playing.
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