Josh Brown

New York Giants kicker Josh Brown's domestic violence case has made the NFL look silly again. (AP Photo | Charlie Riedel, File)

King County Sheriff John Urquhart isn't taking any guff from the NFL.

When the league botched a one-game suspension of Giants kicker Josh Brown in a domestic violence case and then tried to blame his department, Urquhart blasted NFL investigators for being stupid and lazy.

Urquhart said that four days after Brown was involved in an alleged domestic violence incident in Washington on May 22, 2015, someone named Rob Agnew submitted a public disclosure request with a generic Comcast email address.

"Nowhere on the request does he say that he works for the NFL and so, we don't know that it's the NFL and we're not gonna give it out anyway, so we denied it," Urquhart told WKIRO Radio via mynorthwest.com.

"'NFL, National Football League, 'he could have (said) any of that," Urquhart said. "Robert Agnew, Comcast.net, post office box in Woodinville. We had no idea who this yokel is."

Sheriff Urquhart said Agnew submitted another request on Oct. 7, which also was denied.

"To our discredit, perhaps, we didn't use the Google, to Google this guy's name," Urquhart said. "Turns out that he is a security representative based in Seattle for the NFL.

"But he never told us that. The NFL never told us that. At no time has the NFL ever filed a written public disclosure request for any of these files. Period. It's never happened."

In August, the NFL suspended Brown for just one game, and Brown called the incident a "single moment." But documents released to NJ Advance Media this week contained written confessions by Brown in journals, emails and counseling sessions. Brown was declared inactive for the Giants' game in London on Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams, and he is likely to face a another suspension.

The NFL and the Giants said they were unaware of these documents at the time of the suspension, pointing a finger at Urquhart's department for withholding the information. Urquhart fired back on Thursday.

Urquhart said if the NFL had reached out through proper channels, he would have helped it understand the severity of the case.

"I would have said exactly the same thing, 'We cannot release the case file.' But since this is a hot-button item in the NFL, since it's the NFL, we probably would have told them orally a little bit more about what we had ..." he said. "We've got some goofus from Woodinville named Rob Agnew asking for the case file. We have no idea who he is.

"We would have told them ... 'Be careful, NFL, don't rush into this. This case is blossoming way more than what happened on May 22 of 2015. We're getting more information, be careful,'" he said. "Again, we're not gonna give them specifics but we certainly would have cautioned the NFL to be careful about what they were going to do."

Urquhart said his department won't be the fall guy for the NFL.

",,, for them to say it's our fault -- and it's not our fault any more than it's their fault when you get right down to it -- for them to say it's our fault that they only gave them a one-day suspension, that's just not true," he said. "That's what I object to."

Here's the statement released by the NFL on Thursday:

NFL investigators made repeated attempts -- both orally and in writing -- to obtain any and all evidence and relevant information in this case from the King County Sheriff's Office. Each of those requests was denied and the Sheriff's Office declined to provide any of the requested information, which ultimately limited our ability to fully investigate this matter. We concluded our own investigation, more than a year after the initial incident, based on the facts and evidence available to us at the time and after making exhaustive attempts to obtain information in a timely fashion. It is unfortunate that we did not have the benefit or knowledge of these materials at the time.

Prosecutors announced that Brown won't face charges in the May 2015 incident.

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