MORE WOES FOR GIANTS’ JOSH BROWN:
Finally do the right thing and cut him!
Josh Brown is a lowlife wife abuser and certainly will never kick for the Giants again after they rescinded his passport and wouldn’t let him get on the team plane to London.
They have no choice but to get rid of him after shocking new details emerged about his violent behavior with his ex-wife Molly that made the NFL and the Giants look terrible for giving him a free pass two months ago.
The Giants must cut Brown. They know they can’t have him staining their organization any longer. All they did Thursday was defer the decision to next week even though they owed him nothing and should have just cut him immediately. Goodell must suspend Brown six games, not that any team is going to ever touch him. He’s radioactive now.
“He’s admitted to us that he abused his wife in the past,” John Mara said Thursday on WFAN. “I think what’s a little unclear is the extent of that. What I read about it is obviously disturbing.”
When Brown is gone from the NFL, which should be any day now, he will have one victim, his ex-wife. But Mara and Roger Goodell, allies and confidantes on so many NFL issues, caused severe residual damage – Mara to the valued Giants brand and his own reputation for not doing the right thing and Goodell to his credibility after pledging zero tolerance for domestic violence abuse. Now the race is on. What comes first? “What happens now, I’m just not sure,” Mara said. The Giants cutting Brown or the NFL hitting Brown with a much longer suspension based on the new evidence that came out Wednesday. My money is on the Giants dumping him before the NFL completes its review after reopening the case Thursday. Mara suggested Brown could be placed on the commissioner’s exempt list, which would put him in storage until the situation is resolved, but he would still get paid.
Perhaps the most shocking revelation in the new documents was the incident that occurred at the Pro Bowl hotel in Honolulu this past January, which Mara admitted he already knew about. Brown made the game for the first time in his 13-year career. He invited Molly Brown, their daughter and Molly’s two sons by a previous marriage. Molly had her own room, the boys shared a room and Brown had his own room. In the report that the police released Wednesday; “One night, Josh showed up at Molly’s room drunk and was pounding on her door to be let in. Molly refused to let Josh in, and (she) eventually had to call NFL and hotel security. Josh was escorted away from Molly’s room and the NFL ended up having to put Molly and the kids up in a different hotel room where Josh would not know where they were.”
Actually, Molly was the only one who switched rooms. But the situation was so bad Molly had to be pretty much sequestered for the night to guarantee her safety. Mara said he was aware of the confrontation at the Pro Bowl before the details emerged Wednesday. That came eight months after his arrest. That gave Mara a perfect opening to dump Brown and he passed.
Mara should be ashamed he whiffed on at least three other opportunities to get rid of Brown after he disgraced the organization with his arrest in May 2015. He should have cut him as soon as he received news of the arrest, he should never have approved re-signing him to a two-year $4 million contract this spring knowing he was likely to get suspended and he should have cut him when Goodell suspended him in August.
Goodell should re-read the revised personal conduct policy he authored after the Ray Rice fiasco in 2014 and fine himself for conduct detrimental for only suspending Brown for one game. The updated policy calls for six games after so many years when the standard was a substandard two games.
The Giants and the NFL were scrambling Thursday after the authorities in the state of Washington released the chilling new documents that made it clear that Brown’s indiscretion was by no means “just a single moment, an act,” as Brown described it in August.
It might have been a moment in his demented world, but it was hell for Molly Brown, who says Brown abused her more than 20 times. Based on the new documents, which included a journal written by Josh Brown, she was living with a monster. “I HAVE Abused my wife,” he wrote. In a 2013 document, a “contract for change,” that was part of Brown’s counseling program, he says, “I have physically, verbally and emotionally abused my wife Molly.” He admitted he’s “been a liar for most of my life,” that he was molested for several months when he was six years old by a teenager in the neighborhood, that he began abusing women at the age of seven and that he had “an addiction to porn and to sex.”
Why was Goodell so lenient? Why did the Giants decide to continue his employment?
Just as Goodell didn’t need to see the second Rice elevator video to initially give him more than a two-game suspension because Rice had confessed all in a meeting with him, the Giants and the NFL didn’t need Wednesday’s additional information to take more meaningful action against Brown.
How many times did he have to abuse Molly to get two games? Or four games? Or six games? How many times did he have to abuse her for the Giants to cut him?
Goodell is used to heavy pushback on his decisions. It comes with his job. This doesn’t happen often for the Giants and it’s humiliating. Mara admitted on WFAN the Giants did their own investigation but the NFL did the heavy lifting. The Giants did a lot of talking to Brown.
Brown talked his way into staying with the Giants even though Mara claims “there is no excuse ever for any type of domestic violence.”
Mara spoke to Brown several times Thursday. The next time he speaks to him it better be to say goodbye.