Friday, November 23, 2012

Fine Blotter, Week 11, and a probable suspension for Week 12

I knew he couldn't last the season without getting in trouble again, and this one might cost him the season.

Ndamukong Suh appears like he's going to be suspended again for another Thanksgiving Day kick.  (Good Lord, send him to New York with the Rockettes and the high-school bands and college drill teams if he's that desperate to kick.  The Macy's Parade could use him!)

This time, he got Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub...  below the belt.

And the NFL has said they will consider his past history in coming up with punishment.

So why are the first reports I'm seeing saying he might get one game, when he got two last year for his indiscretion?

To me, if his history is going to be evident here, that's got to be at least what Albert Haynesworth got, and that ends Suh's 2012 campaign.

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Well, we'll find out more next week.

Here's this week's roundup of money-losing, courtesy of NFL.com:
  • New York Giants APPEAL SUCCESSFUL:  Wipe out Kenny Phillips' $30,000 fine from Week 2.
  • Cleveland Browns:  T.J. Ward:  $25,000 for a helmet-to-helmet on Dallas's Kevin Ogletree.  Being appealed.  The hit eventually gave two players other than Ward concussions.  One might wonder if part of the fine is not that he forced Ogletree's helmet into somebody else's.
  • Baltimore Ravens:  Ed Reed, TWO TIME LOSER:  $50,000 for hitting a defenseless player, appealed down from a one-game suspension.  Reed is still not happy.
  • New England Patriots:  Kyle Arrington:  $21,000 for a cheapie on Andrew Luck.  Illegal hits on Luck alone have netted the league nearly $100,000 in fines.  If you don't believe SOMEBODY in this league is not trying to take Luck out, I'd like to have a word with you.
  • Jacksonville Jaguars:  Dawan Landry:  $21,000 for a headshot against Garrett Graham of the Texans.  Memo to Roger Goodell:  That's the fifth TWO-TIME LOSER in two weeks, this one back-to-back weeks.
  • New York Jets:  Garrett McIntyre:  $15,750 for a helmet-to-helmet on the Rams' Sam Bradford.
  • Carolina Panthers:  Thomas Davis:  $21,000 for striking a Tampa Bay Buccaneer in the head and neck, a penalty which went a long way in tying the game and sending it to overtime.
  • Tampa Bay Buccaneers:  Ted Larsen, $7,875 for a late hit.
  • Green Bay Packers:  Brad Jones:  $15,750 for roughing Matthew Stafford of the Lions.
$177,375 this week, but then net that minus $30,000.

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