So Please correct me if I am wrong but has anyone beaten one of these yet? It is not up to any of us to decide if he did or didn't use PEDs. But in the best interest of the Hawks what should be done? he should take a seat and wait out his 4 Games. Why? if this is postponed and still happens? then we lose him for any playoff run we have. so when we need our Best CB the most, he wont be there. I say take a seat and come back if we are lucky enough to be a playoff team we could have him back by round 2 if we make it that far..Browner did the right thing and he will be back for any post season we have..Sherman should Follow suit..

... would be just staggering the penalties, but at the right time during playoffs. BB would come back to go with Thurmond, while Sherman sits in the NFL penalty corner. However, all for naught if Sherman's gonna manke a legal run at this. Challenging Roger Goodell's staff can't be as bad as going one-on-one with Darth Sterns in the NBA. Now that's the dark side!

Inspector12 - If we even lose one game then we might not get into the playoffs at all. We are tied with the Bears, and both the Redskins and Giants have tiebreakers over us. It is important for Sherman to play right now. Also, there is not a big drop-off in performance if we only have one starting CB out. Thurmond is good. If the hearing occurs on Dec. 14, then we will have both Sherman & Browner out starting with the 49ers game, the most difficult game left this season. The best case, aside from Sherman winning, is to get into the postseason with Sherman + Thurmond and using Browner + Thurmond in the postseason.

... would be that Walt Thurmond will have one or the other Pro-Bowler working the other side final games OR post-season, if we get there. Byron Maxwell can't be discounted either, considering he picked up a Card flub last Sunday. All feels good, all is good.