What Happened to Brian Cushing? The NFL's Worst Kept Secret!!!

This video is sponsored by Stream Over the years, many professional athletes have been accused of using performance-enhancing drugs. I've already covered some of these guys with the likes of David Boston and Tony Mandary, but perhaps no player is more synonymous with suspected steroid use. that former usc and houston texans linebacker

brian

cushing

this man literally has steroid allegations dating back to his time in high school

brian

cushing

came from a background of very proud people from his parents to his coaches , he was raised to have a certain set of values ​​and based on information gathered through interviews and old articles I've read, those values ​​are supposed to be hard work, integrity, you know the usual, but when I dug a little deeper Deep down I realized that that was actually not the case.

According to Brian's father, they only had one rule and that was to never embarrass your mother or father. It sounds like a solid rule on the surface, but in reality it is extremely superficial, it says nothing about being a good person of honesty and integrity. I don't even require you to take responsibility when you make a mistake to avoid embarrassing your parents, all you really have to do is not get caught, but unfortunately Brian couldn't even do that and today we're going to talk about it. What

happened

to Brian Cushing? Once possessor of the

worst

kept

secret

in the entire NFL court.

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There are no hidden fees, no minimum balance requirements, nothing like that, so it's basically straight forward. If you want an easy way to open a bank account so you can accumulate receive and send money, consider using current, click the link in the description and get a current card. I update you once again for sponsoring the video without further ado. Brian grew up in New Jersey and early on the guy was known as a multi-sport athlete. He was said to be a skinny kid back then, but he idolized linebackers like the great Ray Lewis. When Brian's freshman season in high school ended, something crazy

happened

over the summer and when he showed up again as a junior at second year had to basically reintroduce himself to his classmates in just a matter of months, his body had transformed from that of a skinny boy to that of a complete beast, the change was said to be so drastic that people began to suspect that I had taken a shortcut to obtain this new physique.

Now check it out. Children have growth spurts all the time. NBA champion Anthony Davis grew from 6-2 to 6-10 between his sophomore and junior years of high school and transformed a guy from a solid guard with decent fundamentals to an absolutely dominant 6-10 beast and while I understand that height and muscles are not the same if Brian had never lifted and had superior genetics and gone to weights are extremely hard scientifically it is possible for a teenager to build muscle quickly but it is also possible to take the juice early Either way, even if you're a Brian Cushing fan, you have to admit it's a little strange that these rumors started when The Dude was in 10th grade and remained attached to him for basically the rest of his football career.

Time passed quickly and before you knew it, Brown was a senior in high school and led his team to the 2004 state title. He played on both sides of the ball, but was at home on defense at this point. , Brian had gotten used to the chants from the opposing crowd, but I guess he learned to ignore it because the guy was still playing. He was named the 2004 North Jersey Player of the Year and was given a five-star recruit rating. The rival guy seemed played and trained like a man among boys, so much so that rumors began to spread that perhaps he wasn't achieving all this naturally, but those in Cush's inner circle credited hard work and superior genetics. and although the rumors had already started to run rampant because there was no evidence that it really wasn't a big deal.

Cushion signed a letter of intent to play at prestigious USC. His time there didn't start out very well as he was injured his freshman year, he actually tore his labrum and suffered nerve damage in his left shoulder, this injury sucked on multiple fronts, because Kush not only couldn't play but he couldn't lift either. weights, so over the five weeks the guy pretty much lost all upper body definition and everything seemed to disappear. People who were already suspicious of Bryant pointed to this as evidence of his alleged steroid use and it's a fair point because in five weeks he wouldn't be expected to lose all of his muscle definition and then after he recovered he was able to quickly put on even more muscle. than the one I had before at this time, I can't say for sure if she was on steroids or not, she never tested positive during her period and because of something called myonuclei, it is possible to do this without steroids. this clip for a quick explanation.

Does stopping steroids cause a loss in muscle size? The answer is yes and no. In a previous video I talked about a concept called muscle memory which involves the retention of myonuclei, which are cells in the muscle nucleus that do not disappear when you stop training but instead remain intact in the muscle. If you stop for a long time, you may lose muscle size, but once you start training again, you will find that you quickly regain that muscle size in just a month or so because of those retained micromyonuclei, there you have it, but before you let them free , let's listen to a little more of this clip.

Steroids tend to produce larger muscles. They do many things, but one of the things they do is promote additional myonuclei. Likewise, in other words, the effect is additive to that of training alone; In other words, just training alone and damaging the muscles will lead to an increase in myonuclei, but when you take steroids, you actually aggravate the situation where you become even more myonucleic, let's say Leave the steroids alone, all those extra myonuclei that you have developed as a result of your exercise and you are using the steroids they do not disappear when you go back up the stairs, they remain in the muscle, so there is the information that you feel the way you feel it.

He didn't play much, Kush was part of one of the best national championship games of all time, the 2006 Rose Bowl with Texas and USC, the following year he was inserted as a full-time starter to help form one of the best cores of linebacking in college football has ever seen, and even though he was technically a safety, I have to throw in Taylor Mays just in case. Bryan's best statistical year wasn't necessarily spectacular with 74 tackles, 3 sacks and a pick, and on top of that, it once again created a family controversy. bubbling beneath the surface every time you mentioned Brian's name, this time involving both Cush and his teammate Clay Matthews.

Now Clay's story is similar to Kush's. He was extremely small and couldn't even start when he was in the third year of high school. The guy ended up walking into usc because he was too small and then blew up anyway when cush and clay left usc to go to the league an extremely damaging report came out saying they both failed a drug test at the combine to the public this meant that the rumors about Brian were finally confirmed and Clay was guilty due to association problem. The report was completely fabricated. It was a lie. A fabricated report made up to blacken the names of Brian Cushing and Clay Matthews.

And honestly, it really hurt both of them. from a public relations standpoint, but luckily for Brian it didn't affect his draft stock at all. The Texans selected him in the first round 15th overall, making him the first of their linebacking cut to be selected. Clay Matthews was later in the first and Ray Malalu was. At the beginning of the second, some players seem to lose a step when they get to the NFL, the speed increases, you face more competition, it's harder to stand out, but Brian Cushing somehow looked better during this rookie season. Brian had 134 tackles, five sacks, two forced. fumbles and four interceptions totaling tackles actually gave him as many stops as the man he idolized when he was a kid, but unfortunately for Brian that season would easily be the best of his entire career.

Bryan was awarded the defensive rookie of the year award. Ama's second team, all professional. All was. It was going great for Cush, the guy was the man, but the man had a

secret

six months after being named defensive rookie of the year. The latest news flooded the airways. The league's

worst

kept

secret was officially out. Reigning Defensive Ricky of the Year. Brian Cushing was being suspended. During the first four games of the 2010 NFL season, after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs, some people pretended to be surprised, but most did, they saw this coming. A positive test in his second season was really bad news for Brian Cushing, but to complicate matters even more, the test was done the previous September, which meant the substance was in his body throughout his entire campaign. from Ricky.

The defensive rookie of the year had cheated. Cushion refused to acknowledge him and was determined to do anything in his power. Power to make sure he followed his father's one rule, never embarrass the family, so he got to work with his PR team, they appealed the positive test, but when he retested with the same result , an anonymous source leaked this statement. Brian Cushing had increased hgc levels. it's not steroids it's not hgh just hgc so basically

what

they were saying is technically speaking you didn't test positive for steroids see you're clean but here's the thing a quick google search to show you that hgc It is prescribed for young children who need a little help reaching puberty. or women who use it as a fertility aid but it has another common use basically when steroid users come out of a cycle their body will stop producing testosterone naturally which is why they are known to use hgc which is a fertility drug to restart the cycle.

The natural production of testosterone in your body basically makes them function normally again, so yes, that's why it's on the band's list of substances in the first place. Brian took his innocence campaign even further, though, dude, when he took a lie detector test, as if that would somehow nullify him. the damn blood test he failed and the excuses became more and more outlandish over time, at one point he said the hormone could have been in his body due to a cancerous tumor, then he jumped in and said he was suffering from an overtrained athlete . syndrome he basically never admitted it, never took responsibility for it, but this wouldn't be the last time he got caught, since he won the nfl ricky of the year with a banned substance in his body, the nfl had to go back to vote for the defensive. rookie of the year and guess

what

they voted for him again, okay they clearly didn't care and honestly it doesn't make any sense because he served a four game suspension and they rescinded his second all-pro team so how could he?

They do that and still give him Defensive Rookie of the Year. I don't understand it, but the guy with the award still got it. This caused a lot of embarrassment to Brian's family. The only thing they thought they feared more, but even scarier, was how bad the crazy people were. Actually, he may be some idiot, he actually called this man's mother at her house when she answered the phone to call her. Scream, your son is a fucking drug addict. Her call obviously shook her, but she just happened to be there.when the call came, but when it jumped. the phone, the caller got scared and hung up.

Yes, Brian had broken the rules of a game, but why would you call someone's mother that nonsense? Honestly, you could lose your life behind this. Brian's reputation as a steroid user did not improve in the following years. this is how things would basically go, kush will make an amazing play to make you say damn and then you're going to do something like drink that gatorade, okay, real life example, he'll do something like too, just to be clear, kush isn't on the wrong team he was doing this damn job on this one and the guy just got mad so again he's not wrong but he is crazy what's wrong with this guy?

Well, Jean had to respond that he also had some tough times in 2015. Hits that made people who already didn't like him really hate him. He was seen trying to bully his own teammate, six-round pick Alfred Blue, then there was this mid-game fight with his own teammate again, whether fair or not, all of these moments add up to steroids narrative even though Kush went a couple of years without testing positive and his production was still very good, so in 2013, Duel was given a six-year, $55 million contract extension in at the time, making him the highest-paid inside linebacker in the NFL. but unfortunately the injuries started to pile up quickly, the frequency of injuries made some people once again point out the steroids and wow, as a fair assessment, you could also say that the guy was an incredibly physical player, so you know the fact that he is racking up injuries, it was just going to happen, it had to happen after three consecutive seasons filled with injuries and mediocre play.

Kush had a rebound team in 2015. He played in all 16 games and recorded 110 tackles, a forced fumble and three tackles for loss again, not quite up to that Ricky team's level when it came to sacks and interceptions. , and you know all those impact stats, but The guy was still flying around making plays and was still an intimidating presence, unfortunately that resurgence was also short lived as the following year due to Tora's mcl, but even though he was aging, he seemed to be recovering from that injury, you know, almost on a superhuman level so you know what time the drug test was, he failed the drug test.

Brian Cushing once again tested positive for pediatrics and with the long reputation of using steroids and now two positive tests, this was pretty much the end for the USC linebacker on his Kush credit. He handled this much better than the first, appearing humble and repentant. He still hasn't openly admitted to steroid use, but he received his suspension on the chin. Little did he know that this was basically a forced retirement, as he would never suit up in the NFL again. brian cutchen is the texan's all-time leading tackler, but many people felt his use of pd would cause the texans to distance themselves from the former star, but the same team that allowed bill o'brien maximum power and saw them exchange almost all the assets they had.

For nothing, they made a different baffling move in 2019. They hired a cat who tested positive for peds twice while playing for his organization. They hired that guy as their strength and conditioning coach, but what could really go wrong, I'm sure will. it's going to be fun not long after two of the texas players tested positive for the same banned substance they were both suspended by the league now if brian cushing was responsible or had anything to do with this is completely unknown it's okay and it's possible that had nothing to do with it, but you have to admit it's a little suspicious that wherever he went the ped rumors seemed to follow Brian Cushing was a good player, but his career as a player and strength coach was marred by decisions he made personally, I think the guy has something like that. a biased perception of good and evil.

I think his father's one rule of never embarrassing the family was deeply ingrained in his subconscious and I honestly think Brian Cushing did his best to follow this rule and I really can't think of a nice way to do it. do it. I say this, but I think they taught him the wrong lessons instead of worrying about not embarrassing the family. He should have been taught about real integrity, about not deceiving himself and not cheating at the game. Tony Dungy said that integrity is what you do when no one is watching, you are doing the right thing all the time even when it may be to your disadvantage, if Kush had been taught this lesson, never embarrassing the family would have been something natural, but his family seemed to care more about image than actual substance and like in all my videos, this is no excuse for Cush to do what he did, he was already a grown man, he made the decision he made , but I honestly think the reason he hasn't confessed any of these things yet is because he knows he'll get backlash. from his father and the people at home and Brian's father, Frank Cushing, reiterated his feelings in this quote.

Hey, I lived a good life, you know, normal, I have things, girls, alcohol, but there is one thing I never accept, the only thing I hate is drugs, I prefer to see. He would do more than just sports if he had to do that. Here's another quote from his strength coach. What I'm trying to say is that I find it hard to believe that he needed steroids to become what he is today, but if I found out that would it break my heart? Imagine trying to confess after hearing that I don't care what anyone says, it wouldn't be easy, you don't want to disappoint them and you have to tell them that you broke the only rule they gave you like the rest of us, Brian Cushing is far from being a perfect human, but I hope one day he sits down and confesses exactly what happened throughout his career when it comes to his ped use.

Keeping secrets can eat away at even the strongest and most stubborn. person and that applies tenfold when the secrets are already revealed thanks once again to cameron for sponsoring the video my name is flem low reps I will see you all in the next peace