Fine Blotter Addendum: Found the Team Fines situation

I found articles explaining to me how teams can be fined (and how much) for players' repeated violations of Player Safety, etc.:

• A team is allowed $105,000.  That is the minimum amount that a team can be fined that the NFL will take money from the team.
• There is one caveat to this rule:  A single incident by a single player can cost the team no more than $50,000 toward this amount.
• Once an NFL team reaches that $105,000, the team is fined $50,000 and proceeds to the second level of team discipline.
• At this level, they are afforded another $52,500.
• Should they reach $157,500, they are fined another $25,000 and proceed to the most stringent, third level of team discipline.
• At this final level, any player fines for Player Safety are matched as fines to the team, dollar for dollar. 
• Fines in the pre-season DO count against this total, as do fines in the playoffs and Super Bowl.

This is the third year that player fines can lead directly to team fines for Player Safety incidents for accumulation.

The total of all the fines I discovered last season was $3,123,625 .  This is just slightly under $100,000 a team.

If these were the same levels last year, then we can add the following fine totals to the teams, based on the list I have from last year (which has come in awfully handy!):

• New England:  Level 2 (approx. $143,000, not counting Belichick's $50,000):  $50,000
• Miami:  Level 1 (approx. $51,000):  $0
• Buffalo:  Level 1 ($35,000 -- $15,000 to a player, $20,000 for a false injury report):  $0
• New York Jets:  Level 1 (approx. $90,000):  $0
• Baltimore:  Level 3 ($224,250 -- Ed Reed, alone, was responsible for $105,000 of that -- Baltimore was already in Level 3 by the time he received his second $50,000 and up fine):  $141,750
• Pittsburgh:  Level 1 ($67,000, not counting a $35,000 team conduct fine):  $0
• Cleveland:  Level 1 ($32,875 -- they only had two the entire season):  $0
• Cincinnati:  Level 1 ($63,000 -- they only had three):  $0
• Houston:  Level 2 ($138,500):  $50,000
• Indianapolis:  Level 1 ($44,625 for four):  $0
• Tennessee: Level 2 ($106,125 -- just barely):  $50,000
• Jacksonville:  Level 1 ($77,000):  $0
• Denver:  Level 2 ($155,625 -- not including $55,000 for criticism of the replacements by the coaches Von Miller's three and Joe Mays' $50,000 helmet-to-helmet fine didn't help matters):  $50,000
• Kansas City:  Level 1 ($44,625 for three):  $0
• San Diego:  Level 1 ($23,625 for two, not including a team conduct for $20,000 in Week 9): $0
• Oakland:  Level 3 ($168,000, $105,000 of that alone -- the team reached Level 2 on this alone! -- was for four players involved in a mass fight against Cincinnati in Week 12):  $85,500

Interesting.  Six AFC teams reached at least Level 2, with the Raiders and Ravens going to the dollar-for-dollar stage.  The Raiders did so on the back of a single incident (for which I'm a little surprised the team themselves was not FURTHER fined), for the most part.

The other five teams were Tennessee, who went 6-10....  and ALL FOUR DIVISION CHAMPIONS.

Coinkydink?

To the NFC:

• Dallas: Level 1 ($55,125 for four):  $0
• New York Giants:  Level 1 ($78,750):  $0
• Philadelphia:  Level 1 ($65,125):  $0
• Washington:  Level  2 ($119,250 -- not including a $25,000 fine for the coach spouting off against the replacements, AND $20,000 for a false injury report):  $50,000
• Green Bay:   Level 2 ($109,500 -- and they got a fine in Week 17 (Tramon Williams, $7,875 for a head/neck shot) to put them in Level 2):  $50,000
• Minnesota:  Level 2 ($152,000):  $50,000 
• Chicago:  Level 2 ($117,625):  $50,000
• Detroit:  Level 2 ($133,250): $50,000

Please note:  ALL FOUR NFC NORTH TEAMS got to Level 2.

• Atlanta:  Level 1 ($45,875 for three -- the first division champion in seven divisions I checked not to be team-fined):  $0
• Carolina:  Level 3 ($179,375 -- four Week 16 incidents involving three players (including two Cam Newton incidents) blew them straight through Level 2 all the way to Level 3):  $96,875
• New Orleans:  Level 1 ($35,750 for three):  $0
• Tampa Bay:  Level 1 ($15,750 for two -- for the record, Goldson was playing in San Francisco!):  $0
• St. Louis: Level 1 ($80,875 -- not including $20,000 for a false injury report): $0
• Arizona:  Level 1 ($44,625 for three):  $0
• Seattle:  Level 1 ($91,875):  $0
• San Francisco:  Level 1 (Two "Ball Into Stands" fines and Dashon Goldson took their total to $104,000):  $0

So six of the eight division champions were team-fined (and a seventh fell only $1,000 short), and an NFC wild-card.

The teams were fined a total of $774,125 -- taking the total, if this was the correct figure, to $3,897,750.

For the record, here's where we stand this year (including all supplementals from week 2 -- NOT including all preview-announcements (read: The Jets)), and pre-season counts!!

• Detroit:  $105,125 for seven (and that's only because Suh's fine only counts for $50,000).  This means the Lions are already in Level 2 and have been fined $50,000 additional.
• San Diego:  $15,750 for one.
• Tennessee:  Including Pollard's supplemental $42,000:  $67,000 for three.
• Washington:  Including Merriweather's supplemental $42,000:  $95,625 for five.
• Chicago:  $21,000 for one.
• Dallas:  $15,750 for one.
• Houston:  Including Jackson's supplemental $42,000:  $63,000 for two fines.  It is unclear how the league addresses outright suspensions, like the one given to Antonio Smith in Week 2 of the pre-season.  Some reports indicated he was fined, and, obviously, that would add to this number.  I cannot find a report that says how much, though.
• New York Giants:  $22,875 for two.
• Baltimore:  $30.750 for three.
• Jacksonville:  $7,875 for one.
• New York Jets:  $36,750 for three -- a number that appears to have already increased by another at least $50,000 for the fight Week 2 vs. New England.  It is likely that, by the end of the day, the Jets will probably be Level 2 as well, or VERY close.
• Buffalo:  $7,875 for one.
• Green Bay:  $15,000 (*cough*) for one.
• Indianapolis:  $7,875 for one.
• Miami:  $7,875 for one.
• New Orleans:  $7,875 for one.
• Seattle:  $7,875 for one.
• San Francisco:  $20,625 for two.
• St. Louis:  $15,750 for two.
• Tampa Bay:  $95,750 for four, and that's only because Goldson's (farcical) suspension-reversal counts for only half his $100,000 for Week 2.