Ndomakung Suh, a year ago he was the best defensive lineman in football. Coming into the NFL he won multiple awards for dominating the college ranks (a particle championship game vs Colt McCoy and Texas comes to mind).
He continues this domination throughout his entire rookie season. Physical and fearce; he was referred to by Ross Tucker (my favourite analyst @RossTuckerNFL) as a future hall of famer on more than one occasion.
Fast forward to nearly a year later. Suh is suspeneded for two games without pay and now carries the moniker of the dirtiest player in the league. Worse than that, his apologies come off as forced from the organization.
Well, I'm shocked first. Suh is a player that gives it his all down in and down out. I never thought of him as dirty. However, I've watched these incidents (stomping, late hits, forcing helmets to the ground) and I would definitely say he plays on the edge and needs to reign it in.
Dirty, however, doesn't come to mind. Inauthentic does though. It appears as though he doesn't care about how he's viewed and doesn't think that he's dirty or even crossing a line. After each game he doesn't say he was wrong, or that maybe he made a poor decision. Instead, he says the other players are wrong, and it's not until a team meeting that he gives a half assed apology that does nothing for him, the Lions or the NFL.
All Suh has to say is that football is a violent game played by violent men and that the line between acceptable and unacceptable violence is barely visible and poorly defined.
Man up and accept responsibility.
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