And, as egregious as this one is, it shouldn't all fall on the shoulders of that one Seahag.
Seahawks-Jaguars, in a huge one in Jacksonville. Late in the game, Jacksonville about to win.
Michael Bennett was in the left side there, throwing someone to the ground, several other exchanges, every flag on the field and all sorts of offsetting. The game announcer (Not the NFL Red Zone person you heard over the top there) was talking this was the chippiness going all day. Leonard Fournette was also a major player.
It's clear that the Hags were trying to cheap-shot the Jacksonville QB in the victory formation, and that will cost both teams rather significantly.
That said, that wasn't the worst of it. Not close.
Two Seahawks were thrown out of the game. Fournette and Bennett only got offsetting roughness penalties. Sheldon Richardson was thrown out for the refs catching a punch. (The cameras and announcers caught Fournette jacking a Seahawk in the face mask.)
But it was a DQ from the next kneel-down that got things going worse. Quinton Jefferson was tossed for a role in a second melee.
First off, the game should've been terminated. It was clear this was a powderkeg going off, and The Show Must Go On...
But then the Jacksonville faithful got stupid, and, for whatever penalties Jefferson gets, the Jaguars organization needs to be fined to Hell and back.
Same video, linking at a new point:
At this point, Jefferson is leaving the field, as he should and per procedure. Then, some JACKASS throws a cup of beer at Jefferson from the left of the screen. Jefferson stops, and begins to confront the situation. As Jefferson jaws with several Jaguar fans, another cup is thrown and missed. And then something lands on Jefferson, and he tries to get into the stands, he takes another cup of beer...
Jefferson may have played his last game this year for that. But, for whatever penalty he gets, Jacksonville should be fined six figures BIG TIME. There were at least four things thrown at Jefferson as he was trying to leave.
The war is on...
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