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

In May 2015, New York Giants Kicker, Josh Brown was arrested for domestic abuse against his wife Molly. The fourth-degree domestic violence charge was dropped five days later. Brown was suspended one game for being in violation of the league’s personal conduct policy.

This comes after the Ray Rice and Greg Hardy incidents where the league took a zero tolerance policy against abuse. Erlier this week, the King County Sheriff’s office released materials related to the case including a journal were Brown admitted to several instances of abuse. Brown publicly described the incident as “just a moment,” but the journals tell a chilling story⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Brown said he had physically, emotionally and verbally abused his wife, calling himself a repulsive man. “I have abused my wife,” he wrote and circled.
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In addition to the personal journal entries, officials released Brown’s email’s to his then-wife, as well as a letter he wrote to his friends. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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“I have been a liar for most of my life,” Brown wrote the letter, as part of counseling for the couple. “I made selfish decisions to use and abuse women starting at the age of seven to fill this void. My ability to connect emotionally to other people was zero. My empathy levels were zero,” Brown wrote in 2014. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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“Because I never handled these underlying issues I became an abuser and hurt Molly physically, emotionally, and verbally. I viewed myself as God basically and she was my slave.” ⠀⠀⠀
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In another document from 2013, called “Contract for Change”, Brown details his actions towards Molly. “I have controlled her by making her feel less human than me, and manipulated her with money,” the document read. “I have disregarded my step sons’ feelings…

Giants owner Jim Mara admitted that they were aware of Brown’s issues.

Mara acknowledged that he knew of Brown’s past and that the team was aware of a specific incident at the Pro Bowl during which the NFL was forced to intervene on the behalf of Brown’s ex-wife.

“He certainly admitted to us that he abused his wife in the past,” Mara said in a radio interview Thursday evening on WFAN New York. “What’s a little unclear is the extent of that.”

Head coach Ben McAdoo and several teammates are standing behind Brown.

“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 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?