Former Giants kicker Josh Brown has been suspended for an additional six games for domestic violence accusations, Adam Schefter of ESPN.com reports. The timing of the ban makes little sense, particularly since Brown is highly unlikely to ever get another chance to play in the NFL. 
“We reopened the investigation based on new info,” a league source texted to Schefter on Friday. “[We] concluded there was a violation of our personal conduct policy and imposed six-game suspension which he accepted without appeal.”
By adding six games to Brown’s ban, the league could be looking to establish a stronger precedent heading in the Ezekiel Elliott court case. The Cowboys star is pushing for a temporary restraining order that would allow him to continue to play this season.
“[The] timing has nothing to do with Zeke and made no sense to hold this until Zeke was complete,” the source said via text.
In 2015, Brown’s last complete season, he sank a career-high 93.8% of his field goal attempts. He also contends that he never actually struck his ex-wife. Still, no NFL team will take on the PR firestorm that would come with signing him or even auditioning him at this point.
May be done for the wrong reason, aka to say “hey look Zeke, everyone is getting 6 games”, but it’s still the right punishment. Never should of gotten away with 1 game anyway.
Roethlisberger is the only precedent they need.
He was suspended for bringing bad publicity to the league and generally being a jerk.
Elliot checks those boxes.
4 games. Not 6
It was 6, reduced to 4 for “good behavior”.
out of curiosity, was Ben ever threatened that if anything ever happened again in a negative light he would be banned? Wasn’t he accused of rape twice?
Why? You think you found a lost long loophole to get Ben banned that everybody else missed?
He was threatened by the Steelers that’s for sure. Plenty of talk the Rooneys were not going to put up with anything else
Very true. Suspended but never charged but that was under the old CBA I believe
The NFL seems to have way more of this than the other major sports. I wonder if that’s mostly just because of there being numerically more players, and the NFL is the most visible of the leagues.
MLB has a few, the thing is they kind of hand out reasonable suspensions for acts of Domestic Violence.
Jose Reyes got 60 games (?) I think. He also got cut by the Rockies for his actions.
Chapman and Jeurys both got 30 games. And they served them with little complaint.
I don’t know, I think that the NFL has a real problem with just handing out suspensions for Domestic Violence. I think it should be in the CBA that it should be at minimum 4 games with an ability to be extended depending on the severity of the DV case (legal charges, jail time etc.)
I don’t know, they seem to really suck at this though.
No.
What a fraud organization the NFL is. F Josh Brown for being a pile of garbage but the NFL is pretty deplorable itself.
Then, don’t watch it.
At the end of the day what does suspending some 2,4 or 6 games really do for anyone? Lose out on money sure, but it doesn’t actually fix anything or provide restitution for the victims. NFL only handing out these due to publis pressure
*public pressure but still Goodell is always the bad guy when these things happen. Let’s try to teach these guys to not beat up women, that would actually be the right start
At least it becomes public … everyone then knows who the real jerks are.
Ezekiel Jerk Elliott.
When is this group finally going to get it right. ….??? Goodall and his misfits