Suspension (and possibly worse!) Blotter: Week Two, Part One...

Well, it has happened for the second time in NFL history.

Dashon Goldson has done it again, Player Safety Violation #8 in just over three years.  Player Safety Violation #5 just since Week 7 of last season.

For a helmet-to-helmet hit yesterday (friends of mine point out, about 48 hours after he received the Fed-Ex dinging him $30,000 for the Week 1 incident), the league has made the Tampa Bay safety only the second player in the history of the NFL to be suspended solely for accumulative Player Safety incidents, Sports Illustrated reports.

(ESPN has conveniently buried this story into the NFL page, three deep.)

Here's why I think Goldson should've been suspended THIS WEEK, and why he's finally getting the boot for Week 3 vs. New England:

• Week 7, last year, $7,875 for unsportsmanlike conduct.
• Week 13, last year, same fine, Roughing the Passer
• Week 15, last year, $21,000 for a helmet-to-helmet
• Week 1, this year, $30,000 for hitting a defenseless player in the head and neck
• And now this incident, which got a very strongly-worded retort from the league.

So, let's get this straight:  He's committed four Player Safety-level Personal Fouls in just his last seven games, the NFL has noted he has the most personal fouls in the league in the last 3+ years (15, even more the Nadmukong Suh), this is his eighth league fine in this time period...

And it's a one-game suspension...

No, we're up to about four, Mr. Goodell.  One should've gone down probably last year for the third incident in Week 15, if not far sooner.

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But at least Goldson will be back for the rest of the season (though he should not be).

That might not be true for New England starting cornerback Alfonzo Dennard, who has just announced to a judge that he has violated his probation in July by drinking alcohol and driving, a DUI he will face the music for in October, Yahoo! Sports reported today.

In December, he will face the judge again on violation of probation.

If that were you or me, we'd be in jail tout suite...

But he's a football...  *breathes in through nose* gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahd....

(Hat-tip to JBL)