Friday, December 14, 2018

2018 Week 14 Fine/Suspension Blotter

  • Dallas Cowboys:  Ezekiel Elliot:  $26,739 for the helmet rule -- lowering helmet to initiate contact.  It's being reported he's the first offensive player to be fined for this, but I don't think so.  What I do think is that he's the first offensive player to be a TWO-TIME LOSER -- and in the last three weeks!
  • What people stating this also forget is that offensive players have been (selectively) fined for this foul for some time.
  • Referee Roy Ellison was fined a game check, but reinstated for the Jerry Hughes incident.  By the information I see, he's working the Titans-Giants game this week.
Saturday updates:
  • Dallas Cowboys:  Ezekiel Elliot:  Make that THREE-TIME LOSER in three weeks.  In addition to the $26,739 previously mentioned, add another $10,026 for a low block.  Elliot has now been fined over $50,000 in three games (illegal celebration, RB helmet rule, low block)
  • And the Cowboys, in that same span, now over $100,000.
  • Philadelphia Eagles:  Kamu Grugier-Hill:  $20,054 for a leg whip which has eliminated Odell Beckham Jr. from play ever since.
  • Seattle Seahawks:  Bobby Wagner:  $10,026 for a facemask.  Neither that nor a key illegal field-goal block against the Vikings were flagged.  (I wonder why...  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....)
  • New York Jets:  Henry Anderson:  $10,026 (and should've been a lot more) for a blindside cheapshot on Steven Hauschka, the Buffalo kicker.
  • Atlanta Falcons:  Deion Jones:  $33,425 for fighting.
  • Green Bay Packers:  Corey Linsey:  $10,026 for unnecessary roughness.  Both were as a result of a scrum on a perceived cheapshot to Aaron Rodgers.  (It wasn't -- the player was not fined for the hit.  Rodgers was ruled not to have begun his slide.)
  • And the fine on Jones makes Atlanta the second team to reach Level 2 and dollar-for-dollar status.  So add $25,000 for the level, plus an additional team fine of $6,664 for the amount over the line -- and every fine from this point out for the Falcons also is dollar-for-dollar.
  • Atlanta Falcons:  Damontae Kazee (and the team):  $26,739 (each) for the helmet rule.  TWO-TIME LOSER -- and I believe both with the helmet, IIRC.
  • Chicago Bears:  Josh Bellamy:  $10,026 for a chop block.
  • Philadelphia Eagles:  Malcolm Jenkins:  $12,500 for blasting the replay official on a first-period fumble call.  It counts against the Club Remittance number as unsportsmanlike conduct.  THREE-TIME LOSER, and the fine should've been at least doubled.
  • Indianapolis Colts:  Matthew Adams:  TWO-TIME LOSER in two weeks:  $26,739 for helmet to helmet.  This fine should also have been doubled, as last week's fine was also a helmet situation.
  • Indianapolis Colts:  Malik Hooker:  $26,739 for defenseless receiver.
  • And those two biggies make Indianapolis the seventh team to reach Level 1.  Add $50,000 team fine to their total.
  • Baltimore Ravens:  Matthew Judon:  $10,026 for unnecessary roughness. And that's THREE-TIME LOSER for Judon, all three for one form or another of unnecessary roughness.
  • Cleveland Browns:  Jermaine Whitehead:  $10,026 for unnecessary roughness.  And that's THREE-TIME LOSER for Whitehead too!
  • Buffalo Bills:  Dion Dawkins:  $20,054 for a chop block.  That's TWO-TIME LOSER for him.
  • New York Jets:  Buster Skrine:  $20,054 for roughing the passer.  And TWO-TIME LOSER for him as well!
  • So as of the update I made Saturday afternoon, that's eight repeat offenders for the year this week, FOUR of them three times over. 
  • There are three teams right now (Buffalo, the Chargers, and Green Bay) who are all basically within "rounding error" of Level 1 status, and are the next three teams to go over.
And a suspension we all saw coming...
    • Oakland Raiders:  Martavis Bryant thrown out of the league for more drug problems.
    The Raiders' fine for three suspensions in a league year is now $159,380.

    25% of Vadal Alexander's $152,755 (at the time he was suspended -- he was cut during training camp), Daryl Worley's $148,236, and Bryant's $336,529.

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