NY Giants Don’t Seem To Care Josh Brown Was Abusive To Wife

“Obviously, it is an unfortunate situation for all parties,” wide receiver Victor Cruz said after Thursday’s practice. “But as a teammate, I am behind Josh Brown. I just want him to get himself right and make sure that he is able to overcome these things. It is not an easy thing, obviously, involving his personal life. But as an individual, I just want him to overcome and see where it goes.”

He later slightly altered his stance when he took to Twitter to clarify his statement.

Let’s be clear I never said I stood behind Josh Browns actions, what he admitted to is wrong and I do not … https://t.co/hOFLMYuXLy

— Victor Cruz (@TeamVic) October 20, 2016

Let’s be clear I never said I stood behind Josh Browns actions, what he admitted to is wrong and I do not stand being domestic abuse in the least bit. As a teammate that’s all I know of him, teammate his personal life is exactly that and I stand far away from getting into that.

Quarterback Eli Manning chose to take a pass on commenting, even though he appears in the NFL’s “No More” campaign that says things like, “No more, he’s such a nice guy”

Eli Manning said coach Ben McAdoo went around Thursday and told players Josh Brown wouldn’t make trip. Manning said he’s not a good guy to ask about Brown’s admissions. He didn’t read them.

“I really don’t know what came out. Obviously, I have an opinion. I know that’s my teammate and I know that regardless, teammate or non-teammate, any time you get in those kinds of situations, you want to avoid it at all costs.”

Brown did not make the flight to London Thursday night with the team for Sunday’s match up against the Los Angeles Rams.

As the PR cycle starts, I’m sure we’ll watch several backslide with their supports.

The King County Sherif pushed back on the NFL’s claims that their request for information was denied, stating that the NFL representatives didn’t specifically state their position.

“Nowhere on the request does he say that he works for the NFL and so, we don’t know that it’s the NFL and we’re not gonna give it out anyway, so we denied it,” Urquhart said. “… To our discredit, perhaps, we didn’t use the Google, to Google this guy’s name. Turns out that he is a security representative based in Seattle for the NFL. But he never told us that. The NFL never told us that. At no time has the NFL ever filed a written request – public disclosure request – for any of these files. Period. It’s never happened.”

The biggest questions:

• Would Brown have received the benefit of the doubt if he were black? Remember the one game suspension comes AFTER the Ray Rice and Greg Hardy incidents.
• Does the fact he was a “good teammate” play into his lighter suspension? Certainly a 37-year-old kicker isn’t a key on field piece.
• Did the fact the charges were dropped and the journal was from therapy play a role. Side note, the journal wasn’t information the team had to impact it’s decision because of the above listed information. Where you lay blame in that is a personal choice.
• Why was Josh Brown resigned during this issue?