Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Too much hoopla over The Kong's unnecessary roughness

Seneca Wallace, the Brown's second string quarterback, has called for a suspension of Ndamukong Suh in response to his flagrant unnecessary roughness penalty against Jake Delhomme in Saturday night's exhibition game.

"He already face masked him, then he grabs him by the neck, twists it and throws him down,'' Wallace told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "To me, I think I understand the face mask part, but he horse collared him and threw him down. We laughed about it, but that stuff can get people really hurt.'

While The Kong has had a great impact on all three of the Lions exhibition games, usually demanding double and sometimes triple teams, he has not exactly made a huge splash on the stat sheets. He has batted down two passes and had two tackles....QB pressures do not show up in the stats.

Suh is chomping at the bit to get his first sack...so as he chased around Delhomme Saturday night multiple times, he reached out and inadvertently grabbed his facemask. That's a penalty...but that happens and it's not a big deal.

But then, after Delhomme had thrown the pass, Suh twisted his head and then threw him violently to the ground.

So the Browns were given 15 yards and a first down.

Now, Wallace wants Suh suspended for a game, which I would be very surprised if it happened. He will instead get a large fine and told he was "very bad."

But what worries me is that this was a penalty caused from built up frustration, the kind of frustration that The Kong is probably going to have all year long as each team continues to double and triple team him while running no huddle offenses to keep him and the rest of the line from ever getting a breather.

The worry is that this will be the first of many penalties, which may eventually lead to an actual suspension.

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