The story here isn’t the ejection of Suh, even though his actions were clearly intentional and uncalled for in yesterday’s game. The story here is that Suh expects us to believe that he didn’t do that which he was accused. In a press conference yesterday, he said he was simply trying to get his balance and the “man upstairs” knows that he is telling the truth.
Here’s his statement to the press:
If you hadn’t seen the actual footage of what happened yesterday, you might think he sounds believable enough. But here’s the clip from yesterday’s game where he was ejected:
Not only was he trying to shove the guy’s head in the ground, but he clearly looked down just before stomping the same guy on the arm. And then he tries to tell us he was just trying to get his balance and accuses the press of making up their own narrative to fit what they wanted to see?
Typically, this is something common among children who lie to their parents to avoid getting in trouble. But Suh is a grown man and yet he still lies, even with HD footage showing exactly what happened and how angry he was when he stomped the other player.
It’s one thing to lose your cool in a game as physical as football, especially when you were just beaten pretty badly. It happens all the time as tempers flare and it sometimes ends up with a physical confrontation. Even if Suh had apologized for it, accepting the consequences of his poor behavior, we would still all know that he has problems controlling his temper. But we could accept that he would be penalized by the NFL and hope that he would learn his lesson.
But to lie to the press, and ultimately the fans, is to make known his low opinion of us, that he thinks we are dumb enough to accept his lies as truth. We have eyes and what we see is an immature man who is a liar, who in his arrogance reveals that he has little moral foundation upon which he lives.
And that will likely hurt his legacy far more than losing his temper on the field. And it should.
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