Fresh off his reinstatement, Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett has decided to sit down in front of a camera and continue to beat a dead horse about the circumstances surrounding his suspension. Garrett is once again trying to assert that Pittsburgh Steelers Mason Rudolph use a racial slur directed to Garrett before he pulled Rudolph’s helmet off of him and assaulted him with it.
The NFL investigated the incident and found nothing to indicate the slur happened. Rudolph denies it, his own teammates denied it and the timing Garrett’s allegations came after he apologized for his own behavior minus any mention of this.
I don’t think Garrett is a bad guy. But he did a really bad thing. And when he did, he had to come up with something to justify it and this was his easiest route. Now Garrett is wanting to say there is some sort of conspiracy at work by the league. But this makes no sense. The NFL has nothing to gain by protecting a backup quarterback who means almost nothing to the league as a whole at the expense of one of its stars.
