By james art 
Orchard Park, NY -Buffalo Bills is standing to open the season minus two new free agent defensive lines after learning Larry Ogundjobi and Michael Hoiecht to face six matches to increase NFL Medicines, Brandon Bean General Manager said.
“It’s not perfect to have two guys with it, but both boys have never had problems off the pitch,” Bean said. “This is a difficult lesson where you get your supplements from or whatever happened.”
Whatever happens, it suddenly makes it difficult for the reconstructed account line, such as Ogunjobi and Hoecht expected to be available until the 7th week. According to the NFL rules, the two players will not be banned by the team for the first four weeks before being allowed to start practicing.
Bean said the team was aware of Hoecht’s positive test before agreeing to sign the hybrid protective liner/link to a three -year contract for $ 24 million on Monday.
Hoecht claimed responsibility, revealing that he had tested positively for testosterone, which he believed was delivered to him by his longtime coach.
“In the end, I am angry with anyone but myself. I got a smug. I trusted someone I shouldn’t trust, “said Hoecht, who spent his first four seasons with Los Angeles Aries. “It was a mistake. It was careless. And in the end it is my responsibility. “
As for Ogunjobi, who signed a one-year contract with a guaranteed $ 8 million, Bean said the player revealed that he had just received a notice to test positively after arriving in Buffalo on Thursday to sign a contract that the two sides agreed on Tuesday. The 30-year-old has no history of testing a positive and last season was the nominee for Pittsburgh Steelers for the Walter Peyton Man of the Year Award.
“It was a situation where I don’t really know what it was. But I think it was a tarnished additive, “Ogundjobi said. “But I understand the league, we have an obligation to understand what we put into our body and take full responsibility for it.”
Beane credits Ogunjobi for being ahead, even before the B player sample is tested, while adding that it is not ideal to have two players facing the season suspension.
Bean said the bills would move on to targeting the eighth year’s player at a free agency if they knew about the positive test.
Bean said there was little choice, except to schedule the agreement in part, as the defensive struggle market is already drying and Ogunjobi can still play a role in the team to close the season.
After officially signed his contract on Friday, Ogundzhobi said he had been notified of the positive test at the same time when his representatives agreed to the deal with Buffalo.
“The organization handled it masterfully. They welcomed me with open arms. They understood the situation, “Ogundjobi said. “And I couldn’t be more fledged to enter this area and support my team and this organization when my suspension is canceled.”
Ogundjobi spent his first four NFL seasons with Cleveland, another with Cincinnati and the last three in Pittsburgh.
The 27-year-old Hoiech said he had learned about the positive test three weeks in the extra season and called it “the lowest point of my whole life.”
“It was careless. It is completely my responsibility, “Hoecht said. “And this is something I will have to own, something that will come from the better country and use it as motivation and as fuel.”
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