Guess I Should Catch Up: Final Regular-Season Fine Blotter

There might/will be fines over the playoffs too, but I forgot to do the Week 17 Fine Blotter on Friday.  A long-needed vacation to Vegas will do that to you.

Well, I guess I could tack one on for this week.

• Seattle Seahawks:  Not sure if this one counts against the Level number or not, but Marshawn Lynch has refused to speak to the media all season.  So the league has refused him to the tune of $50,000.  The stupidest thing about all this is that no one checked until this week!!  I guess that makes him a TWO-TIME LOSER, both for non-Player Safety effects.  (The other was a Week 4 uniform violation.)

Week 17:

• Dallas Cowboys:  DeMarco Murray:  $21,000 for another of those crown-of-the-helmet battering ram jobs by the running back.
• Green Bay Packers:  AJ Hawk:  $15,750 for using the helmet on a defenseless player.
• Baltimore Ravens:  James Ihedigbo:  $15,750 for the same offense.
• New Orleans Saints:  Lance Moore...
• New Orleans Saints:  and Kenny Stills:  $7,875 each for an illegal end-zone celebration.

The Rams and Seahawks exchanged many pleasantries in Week 17.  Four players also exchanged money with the league!

• St. Louis Rams:  Kendall Langford got off real light here:  He got $7,875 for committing a personal foul, making a gesture which struck an official (for which he was tossed), and slamming his helmet on the turf.  Wouldn't that be about $40,000 worth or something?
• St. Louis Rams:  Eugene Sims:  $7,875 for unnecessary roughness after a punt.
• St. Louis Rams:  Chase Reynolds:  Same fine, same offense.
• Seattle Seahawks:  Kam Chancellor:  $7,875 for a late hit.
• There were seven other actionable penalties in the game, but only these four got fined.

That exchange proved costly for the Rams:

• St. Louis Rams:  Level 2.  $50,000 team fine.

Other fines found:

• Carolina Panthers:   Dwan Edwards, $15,750 for roughing the passer.

That was a costly 15-yarder:

• Carolina Panthers:  Level 2.  $50,000 team fine.

The Saints got four fines this week:

• New Orleans Saints:  Akiem Hicks...
• New Orleans Saints:  and Tyrunn Walker:  $7,875 for roughing the passer.

And a multiple loser rounds out the known list:

• Washington Redskins:  DeAngelo Hall at it again.  $7,875 for him (and for the team as well for Level 3) for unnecessary roughness.  TWO-TIME LOSER.

So, as of the moment, the NFL fine total for this season is:  $4,609,500.