Monday, December 19, 2016

So let's watch and see how many of THESE get fines on Fine Friday...

One cursory look through Deadspin and it's Twitter account...
  • Ezekiel Elliott.  Play was flagged.
We can now understand at least the two criteria the NFL is using for this crackdown.  One is to prevent confrontation, the other is to not make the game look bad to lower levels.

Of course, the NFL forgets the only way it can make the second work is to remember the NFL is the only level of football which even allows spiking the football after a touchdown, much less anything else.

Don't worry, this off-season, that's gone.
  • T.J. Ward.  Play was flagged, Ward fortunate he was not tossed, because he could've gotten a second flag just afterward.
Oh my.  I seem to recall that was ejectable long before we went fine-happy to try to convince people the game was safe.  Not only that, but then he throws the flex afterward.  Penalty resulted in a clinching field goal in the 16-3 loss.
  • See if you can guess who's getting fined for this one...  Play was NOT flagged.
That is a 15 yard penalty.  And a stiff fine.  A running back cannot use his head to battering-ram like that.  Carey will probably be fined $24,309 for that.
  • Jeremy Hill. This, even though it is a clear confrontational situation, was NOT flagged.
Especially under the NFL's emphasis, that's a cardinal 15-yard penalty, and he may well get fined for that anyway.
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