Thursday, December 7, 2017

2017 Week 13 Fine Blotter

It's (almost) Fine Friday -- start with a big story first:
  • Cincinnati Bengals:  Reduce the number of NFL suspensions for on-the-field for the season to eight.  George Iloka won his appeal to play this week, and was then immediately fined $35,464 for the hit.
  • Kansas City Chiefs:  The one-game team suspension didn't count against the number, but the $24,309 fine for Marcus Peters did.  Unsportsmanlike conduct was the ruling.  That makes Peters a THREE-TIME LOSER with the league - meaning there's a better chance the suspension was quite justified.
  • Kansas City Chiefs:  Daniel Sorensen:  $18,231 for roughing the passer. And that's THREE-TIME LOSER for Sorensen as well.
  • ... and, to no one's surprise, that's a $50,000 fine to the Chiefs.  They just hit the first threshold.  And Peters and Sorensen alone are two-thirds of that amount.
  • Indianapolis Colts:  Darius Butler:  $18,231 for a horse-collar tackle.
  • Jacksonville Jaguars:  Myles Jack:  $9,115 for a face mask.
  • Cleveland Browns:  Shon Coleman should've been ejected from last week's game.  He was fined $30,387 for pushing an official to the ground.  Personally, I think the fine is stupid:  It happened while the ball was loose. 
  • And I wouldn't believe it if I didn't check it.  The Cleveland Browns have won no games this year.  And they still have made the first fine threshold -- $50,000 from them.
  • The Browns become the TENTH TEAM to receive a team fine for excessive dirty play on the field.  We still have four weeks to go.
And another for the Personal Conduct Suspension Blotter"
  • New Orleans Saints:  David Parry suspended the final four games of the year (more that he forfeits the game checks -- he's been on IR for some time) for an arrest while with the Colts on a variety of charges from robbery and auto theft to DUI.
More to come, unless this week was like Week 4 and last week, where the league probably swept a number of things under the rug.

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