Ndamukong Suh Should Be Suspended Until Playoffs for Dirty Play

Over the course of the career of Ndamukong Suh, he's made a series of hits that were explained as playing "hard," not "dirty" as though playing "hard" and "dirty" were mutually exclusive things.

The fact is that Suh plays both and it caught up to him this time.

Now it's time for him to take some time and reflect upon his sins. He deserves it. Albert Haynesworth got a five-game suspension for stomping on a player. I see no reason why Suh shouldn't deserve the same.

Yes, Haynesworth was stomping on a guy's head. But let's not forget that Suh had grabbed a man's helmet and smashed it into the ground once, twice, three times. Then he stomped on him. Let's not forget that this is the fourth time that Suh has been leveled this kind of "dirty" charge. 

Let's also not forget that shoulders can get injured too. How would you like Suh stomping on any part of your anatomy?

Foremost of all, let's not forget that Suh was just voted the dirtiest player in the NFL. 

Don't you believe that when it comes to the difference between "hard" and "dirty," other players don't know the difference?

Yes, there is one. 

If you hit someone after the play, it's dirty. If you hit someone in the head, it's dirty. When you take a player's helmet and smash it into the ground, it's extremely dirty. When you do it again, it's ugly. When you do it a third time, it's a multiple-game suspension. When after you have done so thrice, you stomp on the shoulder of the offending player, it's season-ending dirty. There are lots of players who play hard. Ray Lewis plays hard. Brian Urlacher plays hard. The Pittsburgh Steelers play hard. DeMarcus Ware plays hard. All kinds of players play hard, fast football where occasional plays get "misdiagnosed" and there just isn't enough time to react.

They don't get voted dirtiest player. They don't smash opponents' heads into the ground again and again and again. 

When it's after the play, though, and you repeatedly bash a man's head into the ground and then stomp on him, that's dirty. 

Suh doesn't need to seek help from Roger Goodell to find out what dirty is. He needs to seek out his own conscience and he needs time to do it. Five weeks to reflect upon his actions are enough to do that.

He should be allowed to play in the postseason should they make it, but his last regular-season play should be the one he spent smashing a head into the ground then stomping on an arm.