We have seen many players fall from glory in the NFL in their careers, some deservedly so, and some with just some bad luck.

But with Ndamukong Suh, something seems to be wrong. With everything. At 6-4 and 310 lbs, Suh is more than just an imposing specimen on the field, he is downright frightening. His ability has never been questioned, recording a whopping 10 sacks in his 1st year with the Detroit Lions in 2010. He was drafted 2nd overall that year and hit the ground running, or stomping, as it may be.

I understand playing hard, but when is enough, enough. Especially with a player who apparently doesn’t understand the right and wrong ways of doing things? Recently when Suh clearly and deliberately kicked Matt Schaub in the groin, it was just yet another dismal example of Suh’s problems.

Ndamukong Suh without doubt should be suspended, and hit hard. Because nothing else has worked to show him what he can and cannot do on the field to other human beings. Suh has brought on a terrible reputation in the league and he should be nailed with a hefty several game suspension along with a major fine.

Miserably, it comes down to yet just another dirty assault for a potentially great player. Suh plays with fire and emotion, I get it, and we all love that, but there is a strict disparity between having fire and passion, while being competitive and being a grimy player. Even in definite fighting sports, MMA, boxing, these things aren’t even allowed there, and their jobs are to harm and perhaps knock their opponents unconscious for a living. He is doing these things on a football field.

Suh has no respect for other players, the league, or their rules, and sadly it appears that a few people in the world today see this as adequate behavior. Hard hits are hard hits and cheap shots are cheap shots, there is a major difference between the 2, and I think the majority of people know when they see a cheap shot. Keep in mind; Ndamukong Suh is the same guy that was voted by his peers as being dirtiest player on the field. Think about how much the camera doesn’t catch, there’s a reason for all of it.

Dick Butkus was a beast back in the 60’s and 70’s, and certainly knew how to hit, and his tackling style may have been notorious. But that was a completely different era, things have changed, I love big hard hits just as much as the next passionate football fan, but I don’t ever cheer for an injury, and I don’t applaud when someone is being kicked with cleats in the groin. The game has evolved, the rules have changed for a safer game, where numerous old schoolers have all made many references to how destroyed their bodies are today because of the way the game was played back then, without safety regulations. The players are bigger, stronger & faster, there is much more jeopardy now in the league, than then.

Butkus played 9 seasons and had to retire at just 31 for ruined knees.

Suh is a potential perennial pro bowl type player, who was a phenomenon to watch, demolishing opposing lineman, has been falling into the gutter. His last 2 seasons, his sacks and his tackling have both dropped severely. Playing angry, I understand, playing mean, I even get, but to deliberately try to wound other players makes me sick. He needs to be taught a serious lesson, because he certainly has not learned from any of the repercussions he has faced in the past.

The game is meant to be played hard, but when you are stomping on people, groin kicking, and laying forearms to heads on the ground, there is an issue. Not with the league, but with you and your angry persona. Suh earned his bad rep. He made the bed of nails, now he gets to lay in it.

Waiting for the Ndamukong Suh breakdown.

Written by Tony Karpinski of VegasTopDogs.com