We’re going to take a one-day break from pieces recalling the Browns’
magical 1980 Kardiac Kids season to ask a simple question.

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That is, was anybody listening when Cleveland head coach Kevin Stefanski, speaking at the end of the organized team activities in June heading into a three-week break, told the players to behave themselves and not do stupid things that could get into trouble with the law? We don’t know the exact answer to that, but we have to assume that at least one person, rookie running back Quinshon Judkins, was not paying attention. Or it could be that he did hear it but didn’t think it applied to him?

Whatever the case, he messed up royally, affecting both himself and the team by getting slapped with a domestic battery judge following an altercation with his girlfriend.

Last year, it was then rookie defensive tackle Mike Hall Jr. doing much the same thing.

This reeks of stupidity, irresponsibility, selfishness and a total lack of self-control. And it’s just plain wrong. Put your hands on a woman in a violent way? Are you kidding me?! Only a thug, a bully, an abuser and a bum would do that.

Like the saying goes, “If I can’t trust you with the small things, then how can I be expected to trust you with the big things?”

That’s right, you can’t expect such. So, then, in a sport such as football, in which a player’s ability is his availability, Judkins, who has been penciled in as the starting running back, is no doubt dead to the Browns for the immediate future.

What a horrible start for a team that was 3-14 last season and needs all hands-on deck this year to merely have a chance to compete, let alone win.

Steve King

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