A couple months back, PFT posted a link to a female Detroit sportswriter who wrote an article stating that the drafting of Suh was a better pick than Barry Sanders. I laughed my a$$ off then about it then & it was just another broad “sportswriter” caught up in the Lions undefeated hype, trying her darndest to make people think she had an idea of what she was talking about. Needless to say, that was a terrible joke of an article & I wonder how she’s feeling about now. I’m sure she’s pretending to be a sportswriter again, writing about how he is a dirty player & longing for the professionalism that Barry brought to Detroit. Sportswriters today, especially the female ones playing pretend, are an absolute joke.

He slams his fist into the scorer’s table during a 1987 NCAA Tournament game vs. LSU and is fined $10,000 by the NCAA. In a 1988 national TV interview, Knight says, “If rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.” He later claims the quote is taken out of context. In 1992, he gives a mock whipping to Calbert Cheaney, an African-American, during practice at the NCAA West Regional in Albuquerque. Knight later apologizes for the racial connotations to the incident. He head butts Sherron Wilkerson while screaming at him on the bench in 1994, later saying it was unintentional. Then, in 2000, a videotape is released showing Knight choking one of his former players, Neil Reed, in a ’97 practice.

Don’t give me this crap. If you even bothered watching the game, you would know that one of his temmates tried pulling Suh off. Then another came running over and gave Suh a nice little shove.

It’s probably a good idea to actually watch the game instead of playing it out in your head.

Instead of apologizing to your team mates, how about apologizing to the dude you stomped on?

Apologize? Why? Suh gave Dietrich-Smith his 15 minutes.

Why do you care about how he acts on the field? most of the reasoning seems to be that people care because he’s supposed to be a role model. If that is the case, wouldnt what he is doing off the field be far more important for how someone should act and give back to society?

i am not using emotion is an excuse for him but it is the reason for his actions. and all of us have reached a point in life where we have let our emotions get the better of us. thankfully we were not on national television for the world to see.

there are 1700 players in the nfl on the active roster, so by your math, suh is one of two players out of 1700 hundred that lose their head through out the course of a game. this is clearly not the case. once again this is hyperbole.

Suh needs discipline and to harness his emotions and aggression better, when he can do that he will be a much better player. he is only 24 and will continue to grow and learn.

I guess really what im trying to understand is why losing your cool and over reacting the way suh did in this situation has caused such an out-cry. I would love to understand your point of view better and why it upsets people so much.

It’s proven he will lie straight to the faces of, well, everyone — including his head coach, his teammates, the Lion fans, the Commish and anyone who’d hear him pleading how he was just “trying to step out of the pile.”

Great player — but people who lie time and time destroy their own credibility.

haha im not even a lions fan, i just understand what its like to be an emotional football player. between the lines hes a different person.
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Ha. People say things like “Hey, he’s an emotional guy”- as if that’s an excuse or makes his behavior any more tolerable. I assure you it doesn’t- so his defenders can stop using the “emotion card.”

And I also don’t think that 99% of us care how charitable, nice, or intelligent he is off the field. We care about how he acts and what he does ON the field. He can spearhead all the charities in the world. If he can’t control himself (like 99.9% of the other players in the NFL are doing 99.9% of the time) and loses his mind and starts stomping or trying to twist the heads off people, then he’s still an idiot and a loser, despite what he’s like off the field or how many charities he gives to.

Newsflash: People who have a practically unending supply of money are often directed by their management or agents to give money to charity or have someone else do all the work to establish a foundation in the player’s name. For some (but not all) of these guys, it’s just about APPEARING charitable. I’d bet dollars to donuts that’s Suh.

And that is why I think he’ll get no more than a one game suspension. Sorry, but Suh is a marketable face in the NFL and the NFL knows his presence on the field is one that may make someone tune into a game (if for no other reason to see him freak out and do something stupid again)….. and we all know that, with the NFL, the number one priority is money, ratings, ad sales, etc.

It’s my opinion that Suh should be kicked out of the NFL period. Personally, I have a huge problem with a mean spirited a-hole making 25 times what I do in a year. But the NFL knows where it’s bread is buttered and I will not be surprised at ALL if they suspend him for only one game because, ultimately, getting him back out on the field is more of a priority to them than actually making this cro-mag think about what he did and learn a lesson from it.

Suh was getting handled by a backup, former UDFA unknown.

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Getting handled by whats-his-name? Sorry but he was doubleteamed (as most teams do vs. Suh).