That quit-job by the Giants was not the only disgrace by New York today in the NFL...

Gonna be a busy week for the Player Safety police of the NFL...

Although only three of these penalties might be actionable (and at least a couple probably will be), the New York Jets gave one of the worst performances in NFL history.

According to the NFL, the Jets, today, became only the seventh team in NFL history, and the first in fifteen years, to commit 20 penalties in the game.

These included:

• 4 Offensive Holding
• 4 Procedure (I lump all formation and motion fouls into Procedure)
• 4 Offside Penalties
• 3 Pass Interference (1 offensive)
• 1 Delay of Game
• 1 Illegal Contact
• and the 3 which might be actionable?  A face mask and two personal fouls...

Anyhow, here's the worst part:  THEY WON.  27-20 over that masquerade of an NFL franchise out of Buffalo.

So, that leads to the question:  Of the other six, how many won:

According to nfl.com record book's penalty page, here are the other six teams who committed 20 penalties or more in a game, and, looking them up on Pro Football Reference, the result of those games.

•  October 17, 1976:  In their sixth NFL game, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers committed 20 penalties in a 13-10 loss to the Seattle Seahawks.  (Seattle committed 15.  The total of 35 is NOT the NFL record for combined penalties.  It is second, though.)
• December 15, 1996:  Not surprisingly when you think about it, the Oakland Raiders committed 20 penalties in their rivalry game against Denver.  (The two teams play the Monday nighter this week.)  The Raiders lost 24-19.  (Denver committed 10.)
• November 25, 1951:  The Cleveland Browns committed 21 penalties, out of the most-penalized game in the history of the NFL, against the Chicago Bears.  THEY WON, 42-21.  The Bears, in committing 16, combined with them for 37 penalties and 374 penalty yards in that game.
• September 17, 1944:  The now-defunct Brooklyn Tigers set an NFL record for most penalties in a game with 22 against the Green Bay Packers.  Brooklyn lost, 14-7.  That winless season would be the last for the Brooklyn Tigers in the NFL.
• That same year, November 26, 1944:  The Chicago Bears tied that NFL record with 22 penalties against the Philadelphia Eagles.  THEY WON, 28-7, for Philadelphia's only loss that season.
• October 4, 1998:  The 49ers tied that dubious mark, with 22 penalties, versus Buffalo, 54 years after the mark was set.  They lost 26-21.  Buffalo committed 12.  The 34 combined was the third-most in league history.

More generally, with the two prime-time games left, I find a total, at least according to the play-by-plays, of 30 possibly-actionable plays.

(I define such a play as any face mask, unsportsmanlike conduct, personal foul, unnecessary roughness, roughing the passer, taunting, horse-collar, or any of those other 15-yard penalties.)

(EDIT:  Add 3 more for the Sunday nighter -- Roughing the Kicker (PIT), Face Mask and Roughness (CHI).  Total of 33 with Denver and Oakland tonight.)