Week 7 (Announced) Suspension and (Probable) Fine Blotter: Part Zero

With a Monday like this, I'd rather take flag football at this point!!!

First:

• Washington Redskins:  Brandon Meriweather has been announced as suspended for two games, as of now.  He will be considered, for this season, to be at least a THREE-TIME LOSER.  He was suspended because of his repeat-offender status, plus two dirty-hit flags in the game against Chicago this week.  Meriweather becomes the third attempted player to be suspended under repeat offender rules.  The question is whether and how much this costs the Redskins, who are basically at the line for Level 3 Player Remittance situations.

I do not expect this suspension to be upheld.  If Ndamukong Suh doesn't get suspended again after his last mis-adventure -- AFTER THE LEAGUE SAID ITSELF THAT IT WOULD -- and after Matt Birk promptly allowed Dashon Goldson to continue playing with even a worse track record...

But that's not the worst absurdity of the league this Monday.

•  Indianapolis Colts:  Punter Pat McAfee.  He's going to get fined for this...

 

That's at least $21,000, son.  Definition of a helmet-to-helmet hit.

Well, before they fined him, they had another message for him -- this message and the animated .GIF courtesy of Sports Illustrated, the message courtesy of McAfee's Twitter.



Anyone who wants to try to tell me that letter was, in any way, random, I will laugh in their face.

And, Pat... That's not the only letter you're getting from the league this week.

And anyone almost literally jerking off to hits like Merriweather's and McAfee's needs to take into account Chicago's Brandon Marshall, probably the catalyst for Merriweather's suspension when he said:

"Guys like that really don't understand that there is life after football," Marshall said, via the Chicago Tribune.

(and NFL.com)