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(UPI) -- Redskins safety Brandon Meriweather missed a loss in Denver on Sunday serving a one-game suspension. He will be back for Week 9 against San Diego, though, and said that he is seeking revenge -- if the NFL will punish him for hitting high, he'll have to injure players another way.
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Meriweather is already on the NFL's radar for his hits, so his comments are unsurprising. He may have put himself back on the league's watch list for penalties, though.“To be honest, you’ve just got to go low now,” Meriweather said. “You gotta end people’s careers.
“You gotta tear people’s ACLs, mess up people’s knees. You can’t him them high anymore. You’ve just got to go low.”
His suspension, originally a two-game suspension reduced on appeal, came after a pair of penalized hits during the Redskins game against Chicago. He was fined earlier this season for knocking Packers running back Eddie Lacy from a game with a helmet-to-helmet hit.
“I respect the league trying to better our game and guys like that, maybe he needs to get suspended or taken out of the game completely," said Brandon Marshall, who took one of the penalized hits.
“Guys like that just don’t understand. Those are the guys that are in trouble. They really don’t have anything to do after football because they think it is all about football.”
Marshall's words didn't sit well with Meriweather, who took no time to respond.
“He feels like I need to be kicked out of the league? I feel like people who beat their girlfriends should be kicked out, too,” Meriweather said, referencing a civil suit that a former girlfriend filed against Marshall, alleging domestic abuse. That suit has been thrown out and Marshall’s name cleared.
