2025 NFL Week 12 Discipline Blotter

A little too late for Political/Kayfabe, with Green Bay, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Kansas City, Baltimore... already in the book.

But we can get the weekly Gameday Accountability file up:  (Scroll to Week 12)

Sounds like the league office also had a short week.  13 fines to go with the earlier-mentioned suspension.

And, for the post-game punch-up, Jauan Jennings was fined only the standard $12,172.

Biggest fine of the week was Brian Branch of the Lions, $23,186 for a defenseless player foul.  Should've been more:  That's number FIVE for the season on Branch.

After Further Review, College Edition: I want the ref fired, I want the player expelled.

How does Jaishawn Barham not get ejected for this?

 

That is a clear deliberate headbutt of the official.  The player was NOT ejected.

He should be immediately brought up on disciplinary charges for expulsion from the University of Michigan for the assault.

And, at least in 21 states, according to the National Association of Sports Officials, he would and should be arrested. 

After Further Review: The NFL has officially abandoned Detroit...

THIS was a fourth-down second-quarter touchdown to Dontayvion Wicks on the Packers in the Thanksgiving opener today.

Second foot clearly out.

Packers won by that touchdown. 

And here's another one!  4th and goal from the 1.  Clear false start on the Packers, but the referees claimed a timeout was called first!

And sorry to Tom Grossi, but, under the present rules, that sack by Micah Parsons wasn't RTP? 

Keeping the multi-disciplinary blotter going and asking the question again...

When are we just going to investigate combat sports, as a means of shutting them down?

Another New York City UFC PPV, another black eye that it sounds like outside authorities are going to address.

Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams wants a piece of Dillon Danis and several teammates of Islam Makhachev, who had a physical altercation before the beginning of the UFC 322 card in Madison Square Garden.

Danis has been banned from all promotion events for a record of trying to rile shit up like this -- both with altercations and social media.

What is in the water this season?

Monday Night Football appears to be headed for a couple of possible supplemental discipline suspension-level situations, involving the 49ers' Jauan Jennings and the Panthers' Tre'von Moehrig.

Some point during the game, Moerhig low-blowed Jennings, and after the game, Jennings didn't forget about it and decked Moehrig, having to be tackled to the ground by team security to reduce a larger skirmish.

Edit to Add 4:20 PM PST 11/25:  Moehrig has been suspended one game for the nut punch.  Jennings will probably be fined for his post-game strike, but Moehrig's actions made him the clear aggressor in the eyes of the league.

Edit to Add 8:00 PM PST 11/26:  Upheld, and correctly.

Multi-Disciplinary Blotter

• First, college football.

Colorado State has suspended it's quarterback, Darius Curry, and lineman Liam Wortmann for one game for spitting on Boise State players in the second half of a game Boise won 49-21.

Curry's first start, Wortmann had started all season.

The conference already has affirmed the school's decision.

Let's hope that's the last game either suits up for -- at any level.  In fact, it would be nice to find student disciplinary procedures against the pair to remove them from Colorado State University entirely.

• The unthinkable in college football, Saturday in Birmingham, AL.

At the UAB football complex on Saturday, Daniel Mincey, a transfer to the UAB program this season, was arrested for allegedly attempting to murder two of his teammates on Senior Day.

No further details have been released. 

• Hockey...

An ugly boarding incident earlier this week involving Dallas' Miko Rantanen.

Rantenan boarded Alexander Romanov of the Islanders and was ejected from the game, in a hit I truly believed merited an in-person meeting for a significant suspension.  DoPS declined.  Word is that Romanov is out the season with an injury as a result of the hit.

They have also declined a second Rantanen boarding incident against Matt Coronato, instead opting to defer to NHL rules -- receiving two physical game misconducts within a half season is an automatic one-game suspension.  Any further adds a game to the suspension.  He must play half a season worth of games or lapse two years before they wipe.

He should've gotten five or more just for the Romanov hit! 

• And we might as well just do the NFL weekly Gameday Accountability Report here...  (Scroll to Week 11...)

So what do we have here?

• 23, so a fairly consistent week.
• Seven unsportsmanlike fines this week.
• Jalen Ramsay got a regular $14,491 fine for his punch to JaMarr Chase.
• George Pickens of the Cowboys drew the biggest fine of the week, $26,085 for repeat offender illegal touchdown celebration -- use of a prop.  His FIFTH Unsportsmanlike Conduct fine of the year. 

 

2025 Week Twelve Discipline Blotter Part One

Probably the biggest story of the week was the ejection of Pittsburgh's Jalen Ramsay after an altercation with Cincinnati's Ja'Marr Chase.

Ramsay was facing a suspension of his own for punching Chase, but Ramsay claimed Chase spit at him.

The NFL concurred with Ramsay's account, suspending Chase a game for his expectoration -- the second such suspension this season -- costing Chase over $440,000 and the team $50,000. 

EDIT TO ADD 11/18:  Upheld. 

2025 Week Eleven Political and Kayfabe Rankings

With Dallas and LOL Las Vegas playing tomorrow night, this can be done now:

AFC Kayfabe:

1) Denver (9-2, 6-2 in conference vs. 5-3 for New England)

2) New England (9-2, loses conference tiebreaker to Denver)

3) Indianapolis (8-2)

4) Pittsburgh (6-4)

5) Buffalo (7-3)

6) LA Chargers (7-4)

7) Jacksonville (6-4)

AFC Political:

1) New England -- it may take a playoff loss in Denver to do it, Denver is on a roll and is getting into a stretch of winnable games, but until I see different, I still think "Patriots Are Champions" is the way Fatfuck would wanna go here.

2) Denver -- outside of the question of whether Denver itself is liberal enough, they do check all the boxes, and should be favored in every remaining game.

3) Indianapolis -- it is really a three-team race, and it's no secret that all three are very conservative in one realm or another, and all have White quarterbacks. 

NFC Kayfabe:

1) Philadelphia (8-2, 7-1 conference vs. only 3-2 conference for the Rams)

2) LA Rams (8-2, lose conference tiebreaker to Philly)

3) Chicago (7-3 -- yes, the Bears now lead the North)

4) Tampa Bay (6-4)

5) Seattle (7-3)

6) San Francisco (7-4)

7) Green Bay (6-3-1) 

The only thing I think I am now clear on the Politicals is, as of this week, it's a two-team race (Philly and the Rams), and whoever wins of those or Chicago will lose the Super Bowl to whoever emerges from the AFC. 

2025 Week Ten Discipline Blotter

Yeah, late again, real life...

We have a probable suspension for Week 12 from the Steelers, just heads up on that.

Here's the Link, scroll to Week Ten... 

• 24 this week.
• Biggest this week goes to two Washington Commanders:  Javon Kinlaw of the Commanders, $28,555 for contact with an official. 
• And Ale Kaho, $46,371 for a helmet foul.  Repeat offender, six weeks ago.  Gee, that $4600 or so fine sure did the trick! 

Another Brick Falls: This one DOES involve the Mafia!!!

New Jersey, today.

14 people have been arrested in a Mafia-led sportsbook scam in New Jersey.  This, in a state where it's been legal to gamble on sports for 7 1/2 years.

The Lucchese crime family, led in this operation by Joseph "Little Joe" Perna, bankrolled a number of illegal sportsbooks, some of which were actually run by college athletes in the state!  Some athletes have been arrested, but no word on names or schools they had attended.

Well, this one's a little different.  As noted above, sports gambling has been legal in the state over seven years, now. 

The biggest story in this is when we find out which college athletes are being accused of running Mafia sportsbooks in New Jersey.  Talk about a double life! 

2025 Week Ten Political and Kayfabe Rankings

Well, that's the end of Green Bay.  They'll be lucky to go .500 this year.  They have NOTHING on the offensive end of the ball, and, rigging aside, that's where you go "for show".

NFC Kayfabe:

1) Philadelphia (7-2 -- 6-1 conference vs. 4-2 for SEA)

2) Seattle (7-2 -- wins division record tiebreak with LA (first meeting is this Sunday), loses conference record tiebreak to Seattle)

3) Detroit (6-3 -- HTH over Tampa, HTH over Chicago)

4) Tampa Bay (6-3 -- loses HTH to Detroit)

5) LA Rams (7-2 -- loses division record tiebreak with SEA)

6) Chicago (6-3 -- loses HTH to Detroit)

7) Green Bay (5-3-1)

Political Discussion: 

So after Philly at #1 in the Politicals right now (which is kind of a force after this game), who's #2?

• There's been a lot of press about the LA Rams being a pimped team, but they need to beat Seattle first.
• Detroit is a political non-starter, unless Trump's visit on Sunday was also an audition...
• I've been saying Tampa, but that loss to New England wasn't very convincing.

So let's go this route:

1. Philadelphia
2. The Seattle-Rams winner
3. Tampa Bay
4. Detroit

And I really think it's down to those four now.  And of those five teams, I see precisely one Super Bowl Champion POSSIBLE, and that's Tampa.

AFC Kayfabe:

1) Indianapolis (8-2, Conference record over New England and Denver (6-1 vs. 5-2 vs. 4-2 respectively)

2)  New England (8-2, Wins conference record over Denver, loses conference record to Indianapolis)

3) Denver (8-2, loses conference record to Indianapolis and New England)

4) Pittsburgh (5-4, somehow)

5) LA Chargers (7-3)

6) Buffalo (6-3)

7) Jacksonville (5-4, HTH over Kansas City)

Political:

1. New England, even with the conference record disadvantage.  This is having 2001 vibes all over again.
2. Indianapolis
3. Denver -- neither has looked convincing the last two weeks, but they are the next in line.
4. Buffalo
5. Kansas City -- yeah, I'm going there.  They even get into the playoffs and, as we all know, weird things can happen. 

2025 Discipline Blotter, Week Ten, Part One: Let's see them do it consistently, but...

... an encouraging sign the league is done with some of the Cro-Magnon shit that goes on on the field.

The NFL, today, suspended Daron Payne of the Commanders for one game for decking, in front of everybody (including the President, which will probably get it's own post later if political matters can get me to simmer it down!) Amon Ra-St. Brown of the Lions.

Literally just off and, in the middle of the field, decked the guy.  Got tossed, as well he should, but I do agree this merits another game -- for stupidity on top of the act itself!

And maybe finally we're starting toward the "1+1" model of getting tossed is a suspension in the NFL.  Most states do it in high school, college somewhat modifies it.

 

Shut down all Daily Fantasy prop bets. NOW.

Luis Ortiz and Emmanuel Clase have both been indicted for spot fixing in Brooklyn today.

Two games in June, each paid $5000 each for Ortizto throw an intentional ball in one game, $7000 in another.

It is time for Federal authorities to close down all prop-bet Daily Fantasy, because if you think that's the extent of it...

According to Spotrac:  Ortiz was being paid about $800,000.   Clase?  $4.9 million.

There is ZE and RO chance this doesn't involve full-out game-rigging.  This is just what they have so far.

But please tell me why I should believe otherwise when you literally have a pitcher (Clase) making $5 mil a year on a MASSIVE contract throwing it all away for $12,000...  And he was gonna make $6.4 million this year with two $10 million club options

MLB, you got more to find -- a LOT MORE, and that's just on these two. 

Edit to add 7:35 PM PST:   Now word is they've found suspicious patterns dating back three seasons! 

2025 Week 9 Discipline Blotter, The Rest

Well, they didn't behave this week.  Twenty-five incidents, including the Luvu $150,000 fine ($100K himself, $50K team under Club Remittance) incident.

• Rashod Bateman of the Ravens is $25000 lighter for verbal abuse of the official.
• Josh Allen is about $14000 lighter for a violent gesture.
• TEN unsportsmanlike fines this week.  There were only ten fines all of last week. 
• Aaron Jones of the Vikings is the only other even remotely sizable fine:  $23186 for a helmet foul. 

Another unsurprising update...

Would usually combine these, but saw the Kneeland one and this one several hours apart:

Mark Sanchez has now formally been fired by FOX, replaced with Drew Brees. 

Kneeland Update -- appears we have a CTE case here...

The Cowboys are on their bye week, so, Wednesday night, Marshawn Kneeland was at home -- and about two hours before his body was found after a police chase, police were summoned to the house for a welfare check for suicidal ideations...

sigh

Fucking CTE from high school and college is probably now the front-runner.  Hopefully someone can donate his brain to science so we can find out.

24...  Was in the NFL and contributing...  I know it's easy to pile on the Cowboys as a lesser team, but he was on there and trying...  

NOW we have grounds for a Federal investigation (NCAA)...

The NCAA has banned six players, at least five players from two schools for open-faced match-fixing.

Three players from New Orleans and two from Mississippi Valley State have been banned for throwing games.  The New Orleans players allegedly threw or attempted to throw no less than SEVEN contests, while the NCAA has found the Mississippi Valley State players openly offered money to throw one game and at least one discussing throwing a second.

And again, what I say often has to apply here:  It is completely legal for the NCAA and the conferences and the like to fix games.  It is a Federal crime to do what has been found here.

A sixth player, from Arizona State, was found to have simply shared inside information.

Another side effect of the rise of gambling and of college sports going professional:  If the players aren't paid enough to keep the games honest, they won't. 

Source:  ESPN. 

Discipline Blotter Update

Frankie Luvu won his appeal, but it's $150,000 in fines -- $100,000 for him, $50,000 for the team.

Wrong decision. 

I expect this story to end exactly how I think it will end...

Antonio Brown is now in prison, after being extradited from Dubai, where he fled after an attempted murder rap in Florida.

Yeah...

This is going to end exactly as you think it's going to end.

Maybe they'll search his brain for CTE when this is all over. 

Probably the highest-profile sacrifice to football yet...

On Monday night, 2024 second-round draft pick of the Cowboys Marshawn Kneeland scored a blocked-punt touchdown for the team on Monday Night Football.

By Thursday morning, he was dead.  He was 24.  Traffic incident, sped off to avoid the police, shot and killed himself.

24, in the NFL second season...  Wow... 

So now the only question left, in my mind:  College and HS-based CTE?  Or was he on the run from something and somehow hid it from even the NFL? 

2025 Week Nine Political Rankings

Doing this one early, because of how this week went...

AFC:

1) New England

It does seem to be lining up nicely for the Patriots, isn't it?  Six in a row for 7-2, but now a test as they go to Tampa Bay in what, shockingly, may well represent a Super Bowl preview if Herr Fatfuck has his way.

12-5 now appears to be their floor.  They beat a couple teams they might be going against in the playoffs, and the road to San Francisco might go through Foxboro again. 

2) Denver

a hair over

3) Indianapolis

because of the results this week, but Indianapolis lost and Denver barely got out of Houston.  Neither team looked that impressive.

4) Buffalo

A quiet 6-2, but they lost the first meeting to New England and the second one is in Foxboro Week 15.

Kayfabe:

The three 7-2 can't settle it HTH, so it's conference records at least the first step:

1) Indianapolis, 6-1 over the other two's 4-2. (7-2)

2) The two teams have only one common opponent, so it goes Strength of Victory, and that goes to New England, .333 to Denver's .325 (7-2)

3) Denver (7-2)

4) Pittsburgh (5-3) -- the bullshit IS real.

5) Buffalo (6-2)

6) LA Chargers (6-3)

7) Jacksonville (5-3)

Kansas City is a half-game and the tiebreaker out of the playoffs.  They lose HTH tiebreaks with all three current wild-card teams.

NFC:

Buenos Suerte now.  Your guess is as good as mine.  So I'll go through it in Kayfabe order and show why I'm not exactly 100% convinced on anybody right now.

We have 4 6-2 teams.  The Eagles, Seahawks, Rams, and Bucs.  First break the divisional tiebreaker, Seahawks/Rams.  They have not played yet.  Seahawks are 1-1 in the division, Rams 0-1 -- so the Seahawks go in with the Eagles and Bucs.

No HTH sweep, so...

1) Philadelphia, 5-1 in the conference.  (6-2) Philadelphia may end up being the NFC's choice after all, but there is ZERO CHANCE, barring some replay of last year or the one year KC beat San Francisco after a Super Bowl Week incident left the league with no choice. 

2) Tampa Bay (6-2), head to head over Seattle.  I still think Tampa is a far more palatable MAGA choice than most anyone else on this list, especially the current 6-2s.  That said, they have New England, in a game which will probably say a lot as to where both teams are when we do Week Ten.

3) Seattle (6-2), liberal West Coast, etc.  Can't see that as a palatable.

4) Green Bay (5-2-1)  Yes, Carolina is now shockingly 5-4, but YOU CAN'T LOSE TO THEM if you want anyone to take you seriously, and now you've lost your tight end to an ACL and possibly your WR as well.  A semi-palatable choice due to demographics and fanbase, but too many other factors will probably have Detroit in their place soon enough.  They get Philly next Monday Night in a massive NFC showdown.

5) LA Rams (6-2)  See Seattle.

6) San Francisco (6-3)  Goes double here!

7) Detroit (5-3 with a win over Chicago).  NFC North is lining up to be a juggernaut again, but I still don't see where Detroit gets chosen as a MAGA champion.  In anything! 

 

2025 Week Nine Discipline Blotter, Part One

And he fucking did it AGAIN.

Less than 36 hours after receiving a $46,000 fine for his second hip-drop tackle, Frankie Luvu of the Commanders performed ANOTHER such tackle, uncalled, in the Sunday nighter against Seattle.

This one costs him Week Ten, over $500,000, and a $50,000 team fine.  SUSPENDED, as well he should be.

That's three hip-drop tackle incidents in six weeks, his fifth league offense in a calendar year. 

The Commanders alone have now been fined $119,000 and change for the inability of this idiot to cleanly tackle. 

And you can remove Green Bay AGAIN...

How?

And Indianapolis...  And Detroit!

Eek. 

2025 Week Eight Discipline Blotter

They were good this week, or else the league fell asleep.

Only ten fines this week.  (Scroll to Week 8 if you see this later this season.)  That might be a record for the two years the league finally admits to reporting them all on a consistent basis.

NONE of them were taunting/unsportsmanlike conduct.

• Marlon Humphrey of the Ravens drew the short straw this week.  $46,371 for use of the helmet.  Repeat offender with that from the playoff game with Buffalo, AND from a November 2024 with Cincinnati, in which he was fined twice!  That is his eighth NFL fine in his eighth year with the league -- more concerning, it's his sixth in a calendar year.  Suspension, Roger???  Please?  I know there's no way to take a fine into a third tier, under the general fine schedule, but this would qualify on at least two grounds!
• Frankie Luvu of the Commanders also got $46,371, this one for a hip-drop tackle.  Was fined a month ago for the some offense.  That's HIS fourth fine in a calendar year, after receiving only one fine (for a role in a fight) in his first five-plus years in the league!
• Oh, lookie, it's DK Metcalf!  $12,172 for a striking, etc. offense.  His SIXTEENTH NFL fine since his career started in 2019.  First this year, only two last year after five the year before.

2025 Week Eight Political Rankings

NFC:

1) Green Bay

A bit of a nose in front with the ref's help in the COVIDIOT Bowl.  But after this week's game with Carolina (in progress as I do these posts late this week), it gets much harder.  Showdown with Philly on MNF, then Minnesota and Detroit.

2) Tampa Bay

Probably the most MAGA-palatable of the two-loss teams, as discussed before.  And that definitely includes the race card on the quarterback, if you've been seeing a lot of the racist vitriol on social media.

From there, the rest of the two-loss teams are probably still in a bit of a mish-mash:

• Detroit would probably be the best "shoot" pick, but how much, barring a situation like last year, do they want to go to the well of a city like that?
• ... which see Philadelphia.
• Seattle is probably too much in that liberal northwest corner...
• There has been some talk that the Rams might be getting pushed, but I'd have to think that's to lose, if it was...

AFC:

1) Indianapolis

As long as the AFC's road goes through Indy, they're #1 on this list in that regard.  I get that there might be people who might be thinking somebody else (see below), but Indy still checks probably even more boxes than them, and it keeps the situation from going TOO crazy.

Yet.

2) New England

There is no basic explanation otherwise as to how these guys are 6-2.  Especially with MAGAs calling themselves "Patriots", is the NFL considering getting on THAT bandwagon, especially if the Orange Pustule shows up in San Francisco and Santa Clara in February?

3) Kansas City

I could probably have put "today's Buffalo-KC winner" in this slot and save time.  But it DOES appear that the referees may be donning their RED and white stripes again.  UGH.