Fine Blotter: Week Two, Part Three: The Whole List

First, the four Supplemental Discipline efforts:

• Tampa Bay Buccaneers:  Dashon Goldson, originally suspended for Week 3, but commuted by Matt Birk to a $100,000 fine for his 8th Player Safety foul, and 4th in 7 games.  TWO-TIME LOSER this year in back-to-back weeks.
• Tennessee Titans:  Bernard Pollard, $42,000 for a forearm shiver to the face mask which contributed to a concussion of a defenseless receiver. A Week 1 pre-season fine makes Pollard, as well, a TWO-TIME LOSER.
• Washington Redskins:  Brandon Merriweather, $42,000 for a defenseless-player hit to the head which resulted in a concussion.
• Houston Texans:  Kareem Jackson, $42,000 for another such hit in the same game.

A side comment:  The next time Ndamokung Suh gets fined, the NFL reported on one of it's Sunday pre-game shows in Week 2, he will be suspended as well.  According to ESPN, his appeal of the $100,000 fine will come down September 24th.  Suh has to more than halve his fine to get the Lions back under the Level 2 threshhold.

Now, to today's announcements:

• Tennessee Titans #2:  Jackie Battle doesn't like it, but he's the first fined victim of the new "you can't lower your head as a running back rule".  The rule states you cannot lower your head to use it as a battering ram outside the tackle box -- this applies to all players, but is seen as a major cause of the 4-point a game lessening of scoring because of the inability of running backs to battering-ram their way into the end zone.  Battle was fined $21,000 for the play.
• Titans #3:  Rob Turner fined $10,000 for a peel-back block.
• Philadelphia Eagles:  DeMeco Ryans, $21,000 for another of those defenseless player hits in the head/neck, against San Diego wide receiver Malcolm Floyd.
• New England Patriots:  Chandler Jones, $15,750 for roughing the passer.
• Patriots #2:  Alfonzo Dennard, $7,875 for unnecessary roughness in the fight.
• Patriots #3:  Vince Wilfork, $7,875 for unnecessary roughness in the fight.
• Patriots #4:  Michael Buchanon, $7,875 for unnecessary roughness in the fight.
• New York Jets:  Willie Colon, for his disqualification, earned a total of $34,125 in becoming the season's THIRD (already) TWO-TIME LOSER of the season.  $26,250 for shoving the official, $7,875 for a punch in the fight.
• New York Jets:  D'Brickashaw Ferguson's fine was $15,000 for his ejection for unnecessary roughness in the same incident.  (The hit which caused all this, by Nick Mangold?  No fine at all!)

That game, alone, was worth $88,500 with six players fined!

• Tampa Bay #2:  Adrian Clayborn adds $21,000 to the Bucs' fine total this season for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Drew Brees.
• Tampa Bay #3:  Ahmad Black, $21,000 for a late hit.

Three Buccaneers were fined $142,000 for dirty hits in this game.  THIS MEANS:

• Tampa Bay Buccaneers:  In just the pre-season and two weeks into the regular season, the total in fines is $137,750 for six (Goldson's $100,000, by rule, only counts $50,000 vs. this policy.)  As a result, the Buccaneers are now on Level 2 of the Player Safety remittance policy, and have been fined $50,000 as a result.

 Tampa Bay becomes the second team so sanctioned.

• Cleveland Browns:  Paul Kruger, $7,875 for pulling another player's helmet off.
• San Francisco 49ers:  Anthony Davis, $7,875 for unnecessary roughness
• San Francisco 49ers:  Donte Whitner, $7,875 for a uniform violation
• SATURDAY EDIT: Detroit Lions: Israel Idonije, $15,750 for roughing the passer.

From last week (with an appeal this week):

• Dallas Cowboys:  Barry Church was fined $5,250 for throwing the ball into the stands against the Giants.  That fine, upon appeal, is now $3,250.

So we now have (of the teams fined and not already at Level 2 -- including Detroit from last week):

TEN at $98,000 for six, PHI at $21,000 for one, NE at $39,375 for the four fines of theirs from the game, NYJ at $85,875 for six, SF at $36,375 for four, and Cleveland's first for $7,875.

Detroit, already at Level 2 from Week 1, is now at $120,875 for eight fines.

Church's fine put Dallas' total after last week at $19,000 for two.

Totals:

Pre-season:          $  233,750
Week 1:               $  328,000
Detroit's Level 2:  $    50,000
Week 2:               $  447,875
Tampa's Level 2:  $    50,000

TOTAL, for just the pre-season and two weeks of the regular season:  $1,109,625

That's over a MILLION DOLLARS IN FINES, and we are two weeks into the year.  Almost a half-million this week alone.  This week broke the record from Week 12 of last year as the highest sum of money fined in the history of the National Football League's Player Safety policy (before Tampa's team aggravation) by $18,750.

Yeah, PLEASE TELL ME AGAIN THAT THESE FINES ARE WORKING.