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otherwise Goodell will be a hipocrite in my eyes and will have a double standard, which he will if he does give Suh a suspension and not Woodson, or the crotch kicker from Minn. (think it was Minn). For that matter Lee of GB threw a punch…lost his cool (and was ejected) so there are plenty of examples of people lossing it and not being suspended.

I have no doubt Suh thinks he handled the situation poorly

People lapping this up like milk for kittens.

But I did say IF this is how he truly feels, it would be a good thing.

Over the past incidents, which have deemed unacceptable and fined by the league, the Lions have not backed them up at all; remaining silent over the incidents which have hurt the team. Frankly, I’m surprised that after Suh’s statement after the game, that the organization didn’t at least call him out, and announce that he was being benched for the Saints, while under further review. It’s also been suggested that there is a connection with Schwartz and a lack of discipline.

It just may be that the NFL has been laying back and waiting to see if Detroit is going to step up and do the right thing. This isn’t just an indictment on Suh, but also on an organization, which has condoned his lack of apology and remorse, which is another issue, but one that they also must take ownership of. Should Mayhew suspend him for a game, perhaps the NFL might be satisfied that Detroit is making a strong enough statement, to run a one-game suspension concurrent with theirs. Without that reasonable action by the Lions, I believe we see at least two games, and perhaps three. It doesn’t help that Suh has not publicly apologized to Dietrich-Smith or the Packers, nor indicated that he has had a communication with him.

At this point, it should all be about minimizing the fallout, while exploring whether he needs some outside help with issues beyond football. At any rate, I believe he has the intelligence to rededicate himself, and become the dominant player during the play, which we count on him to be. As it stands now, he has hurt the Lions chances for making the playoffs.

He should be banned for the rest of the season, so that young and hungry can actually play good, hard, and honest football.

I hadn’t read that. That really is stomach wrenching to consider Haynesworth took the high road compared to Suh. I just can’t understand how 99% (scientifically measured) of the fans here rallied against picking up Haynesworth because he’s dirty (and lazy) but yet so many here (42% according to some observers) think Suh wasn’t dirty in the stomp.

And I respect your opinion, but I’m not sure I would want him to apologize to our heated division rival anyway. It does look bad that a guy like Haynesworth, who has an established dirty player reputation, seems to have taken the higher road in a similar situation, but Ndamukong Suh is not Albert Haynesworth, the Detroit Lions are not the Tennessee Titans, and the rest of the Lion’s players are not the same players that were on Fat Albert’s Tennessee team. There are so many potential disparities between the two organizations and their respective players, that we can not possibly hope to accurately determine the REAL reason why Albert Haynesworth actually DID apologize. He could have been ordered to do so by the team GM, the coaches, or goaded by the players who were the team leaders. Suh is widely considered the face of the Lion’s franchise, defensively at a minimum. He is supposedly a leader. Maybe none of the Lion’s players had the balls (or just didn’t care enough) to say something to his face, like Bullock did to Haynesworth.

Jim Schwartz is clearly behind his star player. He refuses to discipline him, stating that if there is ANY discipline that it will come from the NFL. If Schwartz is behind Suh, and releasing statements like this, then my bet is that Martin Mayhew gives Schwartz that much control over the player personnel, and that he too will keep quiet about it. That leaves the players and the PR department to do something about it. The only person I can imagine saying anything to Ndamukong Suh would be KVB…and I haven’t seen anything of the sort on that front. So the PR department is solely tasked with damage control…and they seem to be doing a less than adequate job.

Suh is going to do what Suh wants to do, which is why Roger Goodell will have to take action and make an example out of the incident. Hopefully it will teach the kid a lesson, and hopefully he is sincerely remorseful for his actions, as the released statement suggests. If he does not learn from his mistakes, if the repercussions do not fit the “crime”, and if his statement was not sincere, then he will continue to cost his team games…and ultimately buy his own ticket out of town. If that happens, and if he STILL continues his egregious ways AFTER he leaves Detroit…well like old Jerry Glandville said, “The NFL stands for Not For Long…”. I would finish that statement by changing the quote slightly, to read “The NFL stand for Not For Long when you keep fu**ing playing like that”!

There is a HUGE difference between WWE stomping on the arm of a player and what Haynes did, he stomped on a players head who had no helmet on, when he did it with his cleats. Now a stomp is a stomp, but if I was about to get stomped on I would rather have my arm stomped on than my head. Now had Suh pinned the GB players arm to the ground and smushed a bug style of stomp yeah suspend the heck out of him, but his fit of rage didn’t even come close to that.

He needs to do it publicly too. He knows this. Or at least his PR people should have told him that.

It is past time for that now. That moment is gone and along with it any chance to be a man and stand up and say “I messed up”.

He did stomp on the guy and that guy deserves an apology. Remorse for an accident is a sign of maturity.

BTW, no part of me believes it was accidental. He clearly looks down in Smith’s direction before stomping his foot.

and I agree, JS and Harbaugh should have been fined.

But think the message can trickle down, so Schwartz flying off the handle can open the door for others to act crazy too. While the FO has focused on talent, I think Schwartz does need to work on channeling the teams emotions. We can’t keep getting penalties at the costliest of times against the better teams and expect to win.

unpaid, of course. I like Suh, like his aggressiveness, but he needs to learn to play aggressive without being stupid. Who cares if the other team is doing something to you. It’s football, albeit a much wussier game since Goodell took over. Let the other team get the penalty and Suh take the high road for a change. Maybe anger management classes would help. So far I’ve seen Suh be all about himself and not about the team. that needs to change and it needs to come from Schwartz. If Suh keeps it up, sit him on the bench and fine him game checks for it. He’ll wise up eventually. A good talking to from the rest of the D-line wouldn’t hurt, either.

I’m more of a team then an athlete worshiper type of guy anyway.

does he actually have a track record of getting angry and not controlling himself?
is there a track record of him cussing out a metermaid, highway patrol, teachers at Nebraska, coaches or other players? Smashing up locker rooms and destroying property? Any other assaults off the field?

Is his anger that what caused him to get the dirty label? or is this the only thing on record where he couldn’t control his emotions?

This speaks of PR BS more than anything, UNLESS Suh asked for the counseling and feels he has an issue with anger