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http://www.detnews.com/article/20110610/OPINION03/106100428Appearance by Lions' Suh all about self-promotion
Beverly Hills — Nobody cares whether or not Ndamukong Suh talks to the local media. I get that. As long as he continues to crush quarterbacks and disrupt offenses, nobody cares who he talks to or what he does in the offseason.
So what if he blew us off Friday after the Lions' eighth and final voluntary workout session Friday at Detroit Country Day School? Personally, I couldn't care less. He granted us an audience only Wednesdays during the season last year and except for the occasional goofy prediction he rarely said anything helpful or quotable.
His job isn't to please or appease the media; it's to help the Lions win football games. You think I don't understand that after 30-plus years in this business? Shoot. I've been disrespected by much bigger "stars" than Suh.
That's not what bothered me about Suh's little performance Friday. Does anybody think Suh would have showed up at the last workout session, after missing the first seven, if the NFL Network didn't drag him there?
Come on. He was perfectly content to maintain his own personal workout schedule and continue his almost non-stop Suh Squad promotional tour. He had just gotten back from a two-week European vacation and if you follow him on Twitter, you know he's been hopping all over the globe since the season ended.