Saturday, December 27, 2014

And the rest of the fines I could find for Week 16...

One note:  It appears that the count of relevant (that is, playoff-relevant) Week 17 games is...  only ten!!  With only two spots left for teams not already clinched (NFC South between Carolina (6-8-1) and Atlanta (6-9) and the AFC's second wild-card), that number seems low.

Anyway, back to the Naughty List:

A big second-quarter brawl between the Giants and Rams resulted in five fines:
  • New York Giants:  Preston Parker
  • New York Giants:  DiMontre Moore:  $15,000 each for participating and getting tossed.
  • St. Louis Rams:  William Hayes:  $10,000 for participating and getting tossed.
  • New York Giants:  Odelle Beckham  $10,000 for retaliating against...
  • St. Louis Rams:  Alec Ogletree, who got the least of all of them, $8,268, for the late hit out of bounds that started the whole shit-fest.
THREE OTHER GIANTS were also fined in the game.
  • Cullen Jenkins:  $16,537 for roughing the passer, driving the Ram quarterback into the ground.
  • Josh Brown, $8,268 for kicking another player during a fracas.  He's the kicker for the Giants.
  • Zak DeOssie also was flagged for a late hit on the same play, and fined $8,268.
That's over $75,000 for the Giants alone.
  •  Houston Texans:  Brian Cushing:  $16,537 for roughing the passer.
  • St. Louis Rams:  Eugene Sims:  $16,537 for roughing the passer.
  • Detroit Lions:  Ezekiel Ansah:  $22,050 for a blatant helmet shot to the Bears quarterback, giving Jimmy Clausen a season-ending concussion.  You got off light, son.
In what almost certainly is going to be a point of emphasis next year, here's three more $22,050 fines for abuse of the official:
  • Chicago Bears:  Martellus Bennett
  • San Francisco 49ers:  Joe Staley
  • Oakland Raiders:  Justin Tuck
Continuing:
  • San Francisco 49ers:   Anquan Boldin:  $10,000 for the defenseless player rule.
  • Kansas City Chiefs:  Vance Walker:  $8,268 for a leg whip.
That's almost a quarter-mil there.

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