So, Suh wants to have his suspension reduced, but hasn't even taken the time to apologize to the guy who got his head smashed and arm stomped on? Suh has apologized to everyone else, but if he can't man up and talk to the player he attempted to hurt, how can anyone believe that he's really sorry for his actions?
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It has nothing to do with logic and everything to do with the Lions' next opponent...
If Suh does not appeal, then he will miss the New Orleans and Minnesota games. By appealing, he has a chance to play against the Saints (8-3), since his suspension does not go into effect until his appeals are heard. If he plays, he might drop his appeal next Monday and sit out Minnesota (2-9) and Oakland (7-4).
This happens many times in football where a player will file an appeal to play a key game and then drop the appeal to serve the suspension against teams that are not considered as good as the team he wants to play against.
baudkarma
Appeals are all part of the process. When a commissioner hands out a multi-game suspension in any sport, he knows the players union is going to appeal it. The commissioner will often make the suspension longer then what he feels is justified by the incident, so that when the appeal occurs he can reduce the penalty and still get the suspension he wanted. The NFL may have felt that what Suh did only merited a one game suspension. But they make it two games, the players union appeals, the NFL reduces it to one game and everybody goes home happy.
hamernik
The NFL has introduced that if Suh ought to charm, they'd expedite the approach and pay attention the charm in the previous this weekend and announce the leads to the previous Sundays sport. So, even with what maximum of human beings seem to think of, him pleasing won't impression his status for this week's sport (except the unthinkable occurs and Goodell comes to a decision to take the suspension returned - rather no longer likely)
Hawk M
I was watching the game, so I got to see the repeat from many angles.
Suh is lucky he wasn't suspended for the year.
I used to kinda like him for his intensity and natural talent.
and yes, I know it's hard to dial it down a notch, in real time on the field.
But that was seriously one bad beatdown he handed out.
especially after he just had his sit down with Godell.
Suh is going to be playing through a microscope, the rest of his career.
a penalty like that, will cost him a whole season, or maybe permanent suspension, if it happens again.
Notice how was blaming the other team at first, and refused to accept any responsibility?
He's not sorry he did it,
he's just sorry he got caught.
After so many bad penalties, he has lost most of my respect.
Once again, it's the Detroit fans that lose.
They haven't had much to root for, for most of the last 40-50 years, and then he this shxt?
You just KNOW that the referees are going to watching him close.
That was the worst I have seen all season
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Appeals are essentially ways of delaying a suspension. In cases as publicized as his, reductions are rare. Suh's goal is likely to play in the game against the Saints this weekend. I doubt that he actually believes that his punishment will be reduced.