NFL Week Two 2018 Fine Blotter

• Green Bay Packers:  HAS HE SKATED AGAIN???

Clay Matthews said he was not fined for his roughing the passer penalty (or his postgame comments). So at least the NFL didn't triple down on hm. https://t.co/PjptUxkpt9

— Rob Demovsky (@RobDemovsky) September 21, 2018

We've seen TWO of those questionable Roughing the Passer Rodgers Rule calls doubled-down on already this season with $20,054 fines.

So this would indicate, if true, that Clay Matthews has now escaped TWICE (and, with the post-game comments, THREE TIMES) from what are considered, this year, to be proper NFL fines!!

Of course, there's an easy answer, but no one will admit it.  The NFL is telling you to your face, if you're paying attention, that the game was rigged, at minimum for overtime and eventually for the tie.

Keep believing people.

Blotter and updates coming through the weekend as information comes in!

Here's the start of Week 2, and it starts with a BIGGIE:

• Minnesota Vikings:  Andrew Sendejo, $53,482 for unnecessary roughness with repeat-offender status.  Under the Club Remittance Policy, the Vikings are charged the maximum $50,000 against their number.

Sendejo, I believe, may be one of the main reasons the Vikings won't get pushed.  He got both fined (Week 3) and suspended (Week 7) for helmet hits last year, leading to his repeat-offender status.  He was (in)famously spotted wearing a "Make Football Violent Again" hat after the release of the new helmet rules.

• FOR THE SECOND WEEK IN A ROW, THE EJECTEE SKATES:  Atlanta Falcons:  Damontae Kazee gets only $10,026 (the same fine Shawn Williams got last week for spearing Andrew Luck) for spearing Cam Newton and getting ejected.

The league is sending a message to quarterbacks:  Do not run, do not slide.

That is the THIRD slide Spearing incident in the league in about ten regular-season weeks (Alonso on Joe Flacco last year, Williams on Luck and Kazee on Newton this year), and they don't even get the standard fine for a Helmet Rule violation.  (All three got roughly the same original-$7,500 fine.)

IT'S -- FUCKING -- SPEARING!!!  It doesn't even have to be under the new rule.  There's been an ejection foul for that action for DECADES in the sport of football!

Ejection, automatic suspension, loss of a game check.

If I'm going to only get tossed and fined $10K, why am I, especially in this kind of a situation in the league with respect to the Rodgers Rule, NOT going to openly attempt to spear a quarterback and knock him out of the game?

Will someone fucking answer me that question from the NFL offices in New York??

• Houston Texans:  Jadaevon Clowney:  $10,026 for taunting.
• Carolina Panthers:  Torrey Smith
• and Atlanta Falcons:  Takk McKinley, each $10,026 for scuffling after the Damontae Kazee incident.
• Philadelphia Eagles:  Nelson  Aghilor:  $26,739 for an unnecessary roughness (Forearm Uppercut to the Chin/Headshot)
• New York Jets:  Buster Skrine:  $10,026 for a face mask.
• Detroit Lions:  LeGarrette Blount:  $10,026 for coming off the sideline, leveling a 49er player, and getting ejected!

The standard fine for that, since he seems to have come off the sideline and involved himself, should be upwards of $40,000!!!

• Yannick Ngakoue barely skated being a three-time loser, as he again was examined for a hit on Tom Brady.  Eric Kendricks also did not get fined for his Roughing the Passer against Green Bay.

More to come, probably.