Edwards Won’t Let Nuthin’ Go. When I last spoke about Carl Edwards, it was my intention for that being my last bit about Edwards and letting bygones be bygones. Move on and find some other news to go an about. I mean heck, it’s Bristol baby!!! We have the opportunity for 21 new feuds after this race!
So much for that idea.
Over on NASCAR.com, they’re talking now about how Carl is going on about Kevin Harvick and how Harvick had once called him fake and then of course, they touched on the scuffles they’ve had in the past.
For me, the highlight of it all was that he (Edwards) has no respect for Kevin Harvick. That’s rich.
Kevin Harvick is not the first first person to make note of the alleged duplicitous facade that Edwards carries.
There’s a great article over on ESPN that I finally found that addressed some of the things I had tried recalling and had the statement from Greg Biffle that I was trying to find.
It’s titled Opie or Eddie?
The writer, David Newton touched on how Tony Stewart referred to Edwards as sneaky Eddie Haskell from Leave it to Beaver.
The article touches on the scraps between Edwards and Earnhardt Jr., and later Kenseth. There, Newton notes that Edwards was putting some of the blame for the Kenseth incident on the lack of team spirit in Roush. (There he goes laying the blame elsewhere. When he saw the replay where he realized it was his goof coming down on Brad at Atlanta, he then started stammering that Brad never gives any race room and seemed to lay blame there while “accepting” the fault to all to see.)
It’s in this article that Greg Biffle is noted to saying that “Carl has been the one that has sold the smiley guy, nice guy, do-anything-for-you image. The image he’s portraying [now] doesn’t match up.”
There seem to be issues with Edwards, from Edwards. He’s on a path of achieving whatever goal it is he has in mind, regardless of how he gets there. I am just being swayed by the boyscout facade anymore. I’m bummed about that too.
Up until Atlanta, I had found it to be a tolerable angle to his personality… but when he plotted this pay-back move, and took two swipes at Keselowski, that was an insidious, vengeful and hate filled move, not just a lesson being sent to the younger driver. Effectively, by virtue of the surprisingly light penalty, NASCAR backed that attitude. That’s my big surprise.
