Last Saturday, a day before the Lions were to face the Falcons in London, Detroit suspended defensive tackle C.J. Mosley for two weeks for conduct detrimental to the team and promptly sent him back to the States. Everyone was wondering what could he have possibly done to be sent all the way home and suspended. Well now we know.
Coach Jim Caldwell has yet to offer specifics but sources tell ESPN’s Chris Mortensen that Mosley disarmed a hotel smoke alarm.
“Souces now say that after the Lions moved from their serene countryside hotel to a downtown London hotel near Hyde Park, a disconnected smoke alarm alerted the new hotel security staff to check Mosley’s room where he was found, yes, with marijuana,” Mortensen said Sunday morning.
Because the incident appears to fall under the league’s substance-abuse policy, Mosely and the NFLPA have filed a grievance against the Lions for levying a two-week suspension.
