Week 17 2018 NFL Fine Blotter

Apologies...  This got lost in the tracks over the weekend.  Since it's this far down the line, I am going to assume that Spotrac has it right here -- with some help from ESPN.

• Chicago Bears:  Roquan Smith:  $20,054 for Roughing the Passer
• Making the Bears the fourteenth team to reach Level 1.  $50,000 fine for the team.
• Chicago Bears:  Deon Bush:  $10,026 for a face mask.
• Chicago Bears:  Pat O'Donnell:  The team's punter, O'Donnell got too close to the side judge and tripped him, the league deeming it worthy of a $15,000 fine.
• Pittsburgh Steelers:  Ramon Foster:  $10,026 for unsportsmanlike conduct
• Indianapolis Colts:  George Odum:  Appears to be repeat offender unsportsmanlike conduct, $20,054.  TWO-TIME LOSER, probably from his Week 11 fine getting the double here.
• San Francisco 49ers:  Antone Exum, THREE-TIME LOSER, AGAIN $53,482 for defenseless receiver, HIS THIRD FINE OF THE SAME TYPE!  His first was reduced to $5,000 from Week 3, but that's still almost $117,000, ALMOST THREE FULL GAME CHECKS.
• Hello, Roger Goodell, Suspension?  
• Kansas City Chiefs:  Fellow wide receivers Tyreek Hill
• Kanass City Chiefs:  and Demarcus Robinson:  Both $10,026 for taunting.
• Hill received a similar fine in Week 11, but apparently won his appeal, since this was not doubled.  Because of this, Hill and Robinson's fines leave Kansas City within rounding error of Level 1.
• New Orleans Saints:  Marcus Davenport:  $20,054 for Roughing the Passer  A similar fine two weeks ago has been appealed off -- same supposition as Hill.
• Miami Dolphins:  Minkah Fitzpatrick:  $10,026 for unsportsmanlike conduct.
• Miami Dolphins:  Kiko Alonso:  $10,026 for a QB free shot ejection, which led to...
• Miami Dolphins:  Robert Quinn ($10,026) and
• Buffalo Bills:  Jordan Mills ($13,369) for ejection level fighting/unsportsmanlike conduct
• And Mills' fine proves costly:  The Bills become the fifteenth team to reach Level 1.  $50,000 team fine.
• Dallas Cowboys:  Antwaun Woods:  $10,026 for taunting.
• Los Angeles Rams:  Samson Ebukam:  $26,739 for the helmet rule.
• And that means, once again, half the league has now hit the Level 1 threshold, including 3 teams in the final week.  $50,000 fine for the Rams.
• Cincinnati Bengals:  Alex Redmond:  $26,739 for probably defenseless player rule.

You want a good idea what happened to the scoring?

Just in the last six weeks of the season, players accumulated $1.8 MILLION in fines.

Team penalties for accumulated on-field fines this year, leading into the playoffs (which still count, all the way through the Super Bowl) exceeded a million dollars this year.

Total reported league take from dirty play on the field:  $5,433,164.  Three teams reached dollar-for-dollar, but 16 reached the Level 1 penalty.

That already exceeds last year, including the playoffs, plus the 5% increase.  Last year stopped just short of $5 million ($4,969,557)  Six teams reached dollar for dollar, a total of 14 reached Level 1.

Two years ago, $3,526,034, and only one team went dollar for dollar and only 11 even reached Level 1.

As of the start of the playoffs, the top five fined teams were:

1.  The Jets (who probably damn near had to cut a million-dollar check to the league with the drug suspensions as well):  $301,724 in fines, another $166,137 in team penalties under the on-field, for an on-field total of $467,861.

2.  Atlanta:  $243,990 for their number, another $106,803 for team penalties, $350,793 total.

3.  Jacksonville:  $230,478 on the number, another $94,981 for team penalties, $325,369

4.  Vontaze Burfict.  Well, Cincinnati as a team, but Burfict is most of it.  $193,584 on their number, another $12,000 for Burfict's $112,000 fine in Week 6 (two weeks after he came back from his THIRD CONSECUTIVE SEASON-OPENING SUSPENSION), and a $50,000 team penalty, for $255,584, for which Burfict is personally responsible for $189,639 of it (the $112,000 from Week 6, another $26,739 from Week 12, and the $50,000 team fine.)  If Burfict had been thrown off the Bengals, the Bengals would've ranked...  well, you'll find out.

5.  New Orleans, the only playoff team in the top 5 this year.  They picked up fines in eight of the last ten weeks to total a number of $196,679, plus the $50,000 for Level 1 for a total of $246,679.

In contrast, only nine teams were fined less than $100,000 by the league this year.

The bottom 5:

28.  Tennessee, which was only fined three times for a total of $46,791:  An illegal TD celebration in Week 9, a helmet to helmet in Week 13, and an unsportsmanlike conduct in Week 16.  Except for the final one, Josh Norman actually behaved this year!

29.  Tampa Bay, only fined twice for a total of $36,765:  A chop block in Week 3, a helmet to helmet in Week 7.

30.  Arizona, only fined twice for $30,080:  An unnecessary roughness in Week 8, and Jadaevon Clowney roughing the passer in Week 15.

31.  Washington, only fined twice for $20,052:  A chop block in Week 8, and a taunting call in Week 16.

But the honors this year (and it's the only honors this lowly team will get for this season) for the cleanest fine slate of the year...

The DETROIT LIONS, whose lone fine for the entire year was an ejection foul for LaGarette Blount for shoving San Francisco's Elijah Lee on the sidelines:  $10,026.

Again, this is all from information I have.