For Cleveland QB Brady Quinn, Monday night’s contest against the Ravens could not have gone any worse. He was sacked four times, threw two interceptions and walked off the field with a QB rating of just 23.5. His team lost 16-0 at home against their hated arch-rivals and he lost his best playmaker in WR Josh Cribbs to a serious injury on the last play of the game.

But all of that is likely running in the background in Quinn’s mind this morning, as numerous players and coaches on the Ravens and other teams have lined up to take their shots at him through the media, for what they feel was a cheap shot on Ravens LB Terrell Suggs.

Quinn’s hit on Suggs came after he threw one of his costly interceptions, launching his body at Suggs’ knees even though the ball was elsewhere. Suggs was injured on the play, and it has since been announced that he has a torn MCL (medial collateral ligament) that will likely keep him off the field for the next four to six weeks.

“Heck yeah, it was a cheap shot, when you’re running down and you’re looking at the quarterback going at somebody’s knees who doesn’t even have the ball. I want to see if he gets the same fine I got or even higher. Now this man [Suggs] is out four or five weeks because of some baloney like that.”

- Baltimore LB Ray Lewis

For his part, Quinn has denied he purposefully was trying to injure Suggs on the play, claiming he was simply going after the ball and missed. But that explanation isn’t holding much credence around the league, and it will be a surprise if the NFL chooses to ignore the incident. The league has already handed down punishment of this sort this season, with Vikings QB Brett Favre receiving a $10,000 fine for his block below the knees in a pre-season game against Houston.

“That cat should be fined as much as anybody is fined that hits the quarterback. That’s ridiculous. I don’t understand what he was trying to do. It was blatant. It’s absolutely criminal. It’s about as nasty as it gets. The guy had total control and went right for his knee. You can’t call that an accident. It was premeditated. The quarterback zeroed in on Terrell’s knee. That’s absurd. The ball carrier was right in front of him.”

- Gary Wichard, agent for Baltimore LB Terrell Suggs

At any rate, Quinn’s days as a Brown are likely growing shorter by the minute, and while he’ll draw interest from a number of teams, it’s safe to say that the Ravens won’t be one of them.

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