With Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh starting off the
2013 season embroiled in controversy for a personal foul against Minnesota
Vikings center John Sullivan, there was no shortage of opinions from the wanna
be talking heads in the NFL media.
Sage Rosenfels, a former backup quarterback for the Vikings,
Dolphins, Texans, Giants and Redskins (although I’m not sure any of those teams
would actually claim him as theirs), took to Twitter and said, “Detroit is a
classic example of big bullies who think they are better than everyone else, but have low self esteem. #Posers.”
Look! Up in the sky! It's not a bird, nor a plane! It's Sage Rosenfels...sigh. |
Bart Scott, who once took issue with the Lions play as “too
dirty” when he was a linebacker for the New York Jets, used his new position as
an analyst at CBS to rip the entire Lions organization as being dirty from the bottom
up.
“They’re teaching them how to be fake tough guys. You’re a
tough guy between the whistles. All the other stuff — pushing and shoving
afterward — that’s being taught to them.”
My favorite opinion, however, was that of former Minnesota Viking
and current ESPN analyst, Cris Carter.
Carter is no stranger to making uneducated comments
pertaining to the Lions, having been forced to backtrack from his opinion prior
to the 2011 season where he claimed that Calvin Johnson was not one of the top
five wide receivers in the NFL, listing him behind DeSean Jackson and Greg
Jennings, amongst others.
In regards to Suh’s hit on Sullivan Carter said, “Ndamukong
Suh has been fined four times that we did know about. In those games guys, he
had no sacks and only four tackles. In the Minnesota game this past weekend he
played 46 snaps and did not make a tackle, but on the interception he goes
after a guy’s knee…Frustration.”
Carter’s attempt to make it seem as if Suh is acting like a
thug as a result of having been bottled up by Carter’s former team couldn’t be
further from the truth.
In fact, it was Suh's fierce pressure on Vikings QB Christan Ponder that caused Ponder to
recklessly throw the ball up for grabs in the first place, allowing Lions linebacker DeAndre Levy to
make an easy interception (which would have been returned for a touchdown had it not been for Suh's illegal block).
Suh also blew up a Vikings double team that gave fellow defensive
lineman Nick Fairley an unabated path to sacking Ponder on a stunt.
Regardless of his stat line, Suh was regarded as
having one of his most dominant games as a Lion against the Vikings in week 1.
Once again, Carter’s opinion in regards to Suh’s play was a
sloppy attempt to gain attention, devoid of fact, and a flat out indication
that he doesn’t even watch the games that he’s being paid to comment on.
Or as Cris Carter himself would say on ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown, "C'mon Man!"
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