Week 15's Naughty (Fine Blotter) and Nice (Scoring Update) Lists

In a week where only three games were settled by a touchdown or less (and only one was an overtime game, much less decided in the last two minutes with a score), the average point-total this week completed was 44.6875.

Well below the last two years, this average puts the season-long average at 45.70 points a game, about a point and a half better than last year's record pace.

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And Santa won't be visiting these people with anything but sticks and pieces of coal:

• Washington Redskins:  In a move which might portend trouble for the Redskins as far as any potential scripting for a playoff run, Robert Griffin III has chosen to continue his feud with the NFL's Chosen Uniform Company, the Swoosh, and was fined $10,000 for wearing Adidas apparel to a post-game question-and-answer session.
• San Francisco 49ers:  Dashon Goldson needs to be suspended, Mr. Goodell.  According to media reports, several fines have slipped through this list, apparently.  As of last week, I had Goldson down as a two-time loser.  He apparently, from NFL.com's Gregg Rosenthal, is, at least as of Thursday, a THREE-TIME LOSER, with it being possibly as high as FIVE.  The article reports that Goldson has been fined six times in the last two years, at least:  Two uniform violations, a 2011 fight, and three dirty hits this year, including $21,000 for a helmet-to-helmet from week 15 against the Patriots.
• Atlanta Falcons: Chris Hope:  $30,000 for a helmet-to-helmet on Victor Cruz of the Giants.  
• Atlanta Falcons:  Roddy White:  $7,875 for a skirmish during the same game with
• New York Giants:  Corey Webster, who was also fined $7,875.
• Baltimore Ravens got two:  Anquan Boldin, $15,750, making him a TWO-TIME LOSER.
• Baltimore Ravens:  and Cary Williams, $15,750, also making him a TWO-TIME LOSER.  Both fines were for late hits vs. Denver.
• Tennessee Titans:  Jason Babineaux:  $7,875 for a face-mask.
• New York Jets:  Quinton Coples:  $15,750 for roughing the passer.  Coples is a THREE-TIME LOSER, back-to-back weeks for the last two.
• Houston Texans:  Antonio Smith:  $15,750 for a helmet-to-helmet on Andrew Luck.  Dirty hits on Luck have now netted the league over $129,000 in fines.  Smith is yet another TWO-TIME LOSER.
• Chicago Bears:  Brandon Marshall:  $5,250 for one expensive football.  It is known that a player is fined if he chucks one of the game balls into the stands after a touchdown.  Marshall did that, and that is the standard fine for the act.  This and a prior uniform violation make Marshall a very unlikely TWO-TIME LOSER.
• Dallas Cowboys:  DeMarcus Ware:  $15,750 for roughing Ben Rothlesberger.

12 fines, $168,625, SIX repeat offenders.

Total fines for the 2012 season, with two weeks to go:  $2,833,375