Jim Harbaugh didn’t like Braylon Edwards’s tweets. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Braylon Edwards did not like what he saw from Michigan in its season-opening loss to Notre Dame on Saturday night, particularly the play of center Cesar Ruiz, quarterback Shea Patterson and the team’s offensive line. So the former Wolverines standout said something about it.
“Ruiz is weak, line is weak, shea is scared, [expletive] Michigan offense is so predictable….Michigan football is sadly one thing…….Trash,” he tweeted at 11:28 p.m., a message that eventually was deleted but not before being screengrabbed by observers.
He also tweeted and then deleted a shot at Coach Jim Harbaugh.
“Everybody had your back. I gotta laugh because I knew this would happen. Don’t feel bad, watch the truth,” it read.
Officials at the Big Ten Network, where Edwards works as a college football analyst, apparently saw the tweet before it was taken down. On Monday, they announced, per the Athletic’s Chris Vannini, that Edwards has been suspended indefinitely “due to a violation of the network’s social media guidelines.”
Harbaugh also saw Edwards’s gripes, or at least was told about them.
“First of all, it’s not true. It’s not factual,” he said Monday at his weekly news conference with reporters, per the Athletic’s Cody Stavenhagen. “If you’re going to come after someone, come after me.
“I was disappointed a member of the Big Ten Network would choose to attack the character of our players. That’s disappointing,” he continued.
Edwards played at Michigan from 2001 to 2004 before a 10-year NFL career. He set Wolverines single-season records for receptions (97) and receiving yards (1,330) as a senior and career records with 252 receptions, 3,541 yards and 39 touchdown catches, the latter a Big Ten record that still stands. But he also butted heads with his coaches and would be relegated to the bench for long stretches during games, despite his obvious talent.
On Sunday, Edwards gave a more measured observation about the Wolverines’ early-season woes, saying they no longer can be blamed on substandard quarterback play (Patterson was considered the nation’s best pro-style quarterback in his high school recruiting class; he began his college career at Mississippi before transferring to Michigan).
Soon after, a Twitter user asked Edwards if he had been drinking when he sent out the offending tweet.
On Monday afternoon, after the suspension was announced, he complained that people aren’t focusing on the important things:
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