How Inappropriate: Edwards Not Suspended By Jets

One for the road. Well maybe 10.

One bourbon, one shot and one beer star wide receiver Braylon Edwards will not start this weekend but will be available to play as much as NY Jets head coach Rex Ryan sees fit. Wow! The Jets claim that under the collective bargaining agreement, a player cannot be benched or suspended for a DWI by his team with pay because it's considered punishment. Oh God forbid. However, a player can be benched or suspended by his organization if he violates team rules. Good times.

Look closely while laws, rules and morals are twisted into conundrum pretzel before our eyes for the sake of winning. See how everyone is passing around responsibility like an active grenade. Notice when it comes to repremanding a spoiled professional athlete, action is slow especially if he can help your team the following week. In times like this, one can only await the arrival of a third party organization like "Mothers Against Drunk Driving" to force the Jets and the NFL to take immediate action.

If this isn't a violation of team rules then someone needs to update the rule book. What the Jets are saying is, if Edwards missed practice or broke curfew he would be repremanded but since he didn't break any rules and instead drove around drunk at 5:15 am, then it's cool dawg.

Watch the irony unfold...

March 13, 2009, Braylon Edwards then with the Cleveland Browns, partied late and hard with fellow teamate Donte Stallworth after he signed a 35 million dollar deal with the team. As the story goes, Edwards checked into a hotel and Stallworth drove himself home at 5 am. Shortly after, Stallworth was hungry and drove to get some breakfast. Before bacon and eggs, he mowed down and killed a pedestrian who was on his way home from work. Stallworth's breathalyzer clocked 0.126, less than Edwards .16 the other night.

If Edwards didn't learn anything from that night; he never will. If the Jets don't see the correlation between these two incidents then the whole organization needs to have a kindergartener stop by for a little round of, "Which one of these doesn't belong." But their actions are much worse then ignorance. They are playing everyone for a fool by suggesting that their hands are tied on this one.

And Jet fans wake up already. Come out from your cave of insanity and put this in it's proper perspective. I keep hearing from some of you guys, "But Kareem McKenzie did the same thing a few years ago blah blah." NO NO NO, it's not the same exact thing. Braylon has been nothing but trouble. He beat up a 130 pound guy last year. He was partying with Stallworth and later somebody died. I can't understand how Jet fans can defend him on this one. Are you guys that hard up for a Super Bowl that you'll defend this low class idiot to the point of soiling your own reputation? What if he mowed down your son or daughter? What will it take for some action?

Would this help?...

Maybe this?....