- Chicago Bears: Brian Urlacher is a TWO-TIME LOSER, consecutive weeks, same offense: $21,000 (which is a downgrade from the usual fine, after further review) for a horse-collar on Seahag Leon Washington. That might be Urlacher's last game of the year, though -- he got injured later in the game.
- New York Giants: Linval Joseph: $7,875 for a fracas in which he pulled the leg of...
- Washington Redskins: Will Montgomery, who got a $10,000 fine for kicking Joseph in the balls as a result. NFL.com: "The financial disparity shows us that, while it's not prudent to yank on a man's legs, it's outright villainous to assault the space between. Glad that's settled."
- Detroit Lions: Nick Fairley adds to the Andrew Luck parade: $15,750 for a horse-collar on Luck. That's over $113,000 in fines on players on actions against Luck.
- San Francisco 49ers got two: Navorro Bowman: $10,000 for unnecessary roughness against the Rams.
- San Francisco: Dashon Goldson: $7,875 for roughing the passer on Sam Bradford, making him a TWO-TIME LOSER.
- Green Bay Packers: Tramon Williams: $21,000 for striking Toby Gerhart of the Vikings in the head or neck.
- Minnesota Vikings: Everson Griffen: $15,750 for roughing the passer on Aaron Rodgers. The on-field penalty wiped out a Minnesota interception, and also makes him a TWO-TIME LOSER.
- Minnesota Vikings: Jasper Brinkley: $7,875 for a face-mask. With that fine, Brinkley becomes the first THREE-TIME LOSER in the NFL this year.
- Denver Broncos: Von Miller: $25,000 for roughing the passer below the knee on Josh Freeman of the Buccaneers. This makes Von the second THREE-TIME LOSER in the league this year.
- Jacksonville Jaguars: Jason Babin: $21,000 for more head/neck contact. This makes Babin a unique THREE-TIME LOSER. After being cut by the Eagles, the Jaguars picked him up, and that's his third offense of the year.
- Baltimore Ravens: Paul Kruger: $5,250 for a uniform violation -- you could see the bottom of his shoulder pads.
12 fines this week, 6 of them multiple offenders, including 3 three-timers.
Early Monday edit: And this doesn't even count a $200,000 fine on Darrell Dockett of the Cardinals for insubordination and the like. That was a team fine, and is being challenged by the player to the NFLPA.
It seems every week Denver is targeting the QB below the knees. Every week I read your blog, I see they get fined. Why isn't Goodell on some witch hunt for a bounty program on that team? Not counting what they did to Matt Schuab.
ReplyDeleteWeek 1: Defenseless rule
DeleteWeek 2: Roughing Passer and two coaches for Criticism
Week 3: Matt Schaub incident, and another Roughing the Passer
They then laid off until:
Week 10: Knee-Target and a Horse-Collar on Cam Newton.
Week 13: Roughing Passer
Geez, I wonder how long this is going to go on. Just from the few games I've watched by them, they've been playing dirty. Everyone is too busy drooling over Peyton Manning's wobbly passes and praising him as an "MVP" again to really notice it.
DeleteThanks again for this blog, I read every week. We need more people like you in this world exposing the corruption in the sports world.
Part of the problem is that there just aren't that many great football players anymore, much less great teams.
DeleteBe interesting to see what happens in Denver this year, as I think they might be more likely to go to the Super Bowl than Houston, IMODO.
And, like clockwork, another tragedy, another win. I'll have the article on that when I can find Costas' rant from tonight -- he apparently did another one on the DUI.