Edelman assumes responsibility for positive PED test, suspension

FOXBORO – Julian Edelman tells himself that he will miss the first four games of the 2018 season.

The Patriots receiver was suspended for a quarter of the year for violating the anti-doping policy of the league. , appealed the decision and lost. Rather than continuing to fight, he accepted the penalty, and on Saturday he admitted that he had to be more careful.

"Obviously, you are disappointed," Edelman said. "But I have to follow the protocols a little better and make sure that it will never happen again, I'm responsible for my actions and finally my goal now is to straighten up and play high-level football."

Saturday, Edelman and Tom Brady met the media simultaneously. Shortly after Tom Brady ended his press conference after receiving a question about Edelman and Edelman's link with Brady's "body coach" and his business partner Alex Guerrero, Edelman himself was responding to a Guerrero's question.

Guerrero issued a statement last month saying that it had nothing to do with the positive result of Edelman's PED test, but Edelman chose not to talk about Guerrero when he had the opportunity to follow him. the past is in the past, "said Edelman." I love Alex, I'm not here to talk about it … to make a headline on something, here, play football, buddy. "

Edelman was on throughout the spring and he looked like a full participant at the beginning of the training camp.For a splint on his knee surgically repaired, the knee that he injured At a preseason game in Detroit last summer, Edelman cut and moved smoothly.

Asked where he is where he would like to be, Edelman paused.

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"It's too hard to say because it's my fifth day now a rank, [and] there things here and there you have to work, "he said. "There are things that make me feel good, there are things that I have to do and that's why you have a training camp, especially so that I can go out and develop my basics. and learn to cut my knee. and I work on building that trust and building trust with constant repetition. It's where I am.

"I tell you everything I feel good right now, and I do not know how it feels tomorrow.You know how it goes.It's a major surgery.We all know that. I'm confident of going out and competing, and that's what he's pbadionate about. "

But there are steps that Edelman knows he has to go through before he can participate in the competitions. He is used to it: there is the cup, there are people around his body very recently very vulnerable … There are blockages and we remember the use of the pads after almost a whole year away from them.

That is a lot.

"There is a little more contact. the old cobwebs and get to hit someone and feel a body on you while you run a road, a heavy body, "he said. Enter and be able to block, push and really cut your leg in someone else's way. That's why. This is to build your foundation, especially when coming out of the injury, a season does not play. I really have to take this seriously and criticize everything 110 per cent to finally get ready for my season. "

Even though he will miss the first month, the fact that Edelman is preparing for the season this point qualifies as an obstacle The teammates who tore their knees last year like Cyrus Jones (last summer) and Nate Ebner (last fall) are still physically unable to make the list, coaching on lower ground while their teammates in better health & safety I'm glad that it's on the other side of the hill behind the Gillette stadium that separates the two groups.

"It was a hellish year to see your Team play Super Bowl without you and on the couch, said, "It was hard. But I'm excited to be here, and I'm excited to work on my game. "

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