Still bitter because they didn’t draft you because of your good penmanship and perfect attendance record?

There are a number of NFL coaches already who were rooting for Schwartz to clean little Jimmy’s clock. Very likely including Morris. Maybe you’re just the rare guy who admired Eddie Haskell.

If I get pulled over for drinking and driving on vacation, my boss may not know if I spent a night in jail until the legal system plays out, and then he may refer to company policy to see if there is a reprimand for the infraction. However, if I get arrested for drinking and driving and miss a meeting, or put more work on my co-workers because I’m in jail rather than work, of course my boss will immediatly know the damage done to production and reprimand immediatley.

Last season was what, the second time in my life I’ve actually had fun rooting for the Lions?

If there is a correlation between this and the arrests I say keep the arrests coming!

The Lions’ players who have run afoul of the law display the same lack of discipline, and both the Lions’ management team (Schwartz, Mayhew, Tom Lewand, W.C. Ford, Bill Ford Jr.) and the veterans have to lay it out for Suh, Fairley, Culbreath, Leshore, Berry, etc.. They are professional football players drawing seven figure salaries, not just for 16 games a year, but for 365 days of the year. They have to maintain discipline over themselves 24/7/365, on the field and off the field.

Hoping to see the Lions in New Orleans on Feb 3rd next year!

Sure, they “can”. But even the teams you cite don’t always do it. Did the Steelers suspend Hines Ward for his DUI? Were they the first to take action against Roethlisberger, or did they pass the buck to the league office to deal with him?

I don’t know a thing about Aaron Berry, but it’s as if you’re calling for the Lions to automatically impose discipline in his case because of things Nick Fairley and Michael Leshoure did.

The CBA still makes it hard to impose a blanket team discipline policy. It seems strange to me that you can have proof that a guy was doing illegal drugs off a failed drug test, and you can’t use that as basis for taking action as a team. But if a player gets pulled over for speeding and police find a joint — even if the ownership might be open for debate, say — you can suspend him if you want?

Maybe it’s fair enough that these guys can now land in the substance program the same as players who quietly failed a random drug test we never heard about.

Filling in for Soul Man-who is on vaca in Cabo…

Hate to see the stupid and irresponsible antics.

On-field performance better be equal to the claims of reasonable tolerance.

Go LIONS – but stop the arrests.

There should be automatic punishment, union or not, such as:
1st DUI you are suspended 8 games
2nd DUI you lose an entire season
3rd DUI you are banned for life with no appeal

I agree 100%..the things this team is goin through right now is a walk in the park compared to the millen years,now that was hell.

~20 year diehard detroit lions fan.

Wanna know why the Lions don’t suspend or significantly punish any of those players?

Because they help them win games better/more than anyone else at their respective positions.

The Lions aren’t in the business of creating or maintaining a positive public image; they are in the business of winning football games. That the bottom line, period.

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Detroit is in the business of winning football games? Since when?

Everyone else can be cut with no damage to the team.

The team has kept team information close to the vest ever since Mayhew took over, so discipline could still be in the works, but way to jump to conclusions and essentially call the administration cowards.

The media would then jump all over the lions for violating the players “rights” as collectively bargained.

Players are subject to discipline under the personal conduct portion of the CBA. DUIs, drug possession, and other conduct is all subject to review…….as collectively bargained.