Whoops, forgot this. We have a Super Bowl Fine Blotter...

• Los Angeles Rams:  Nickell Robey-Coleman, and that should be doubled, but WAS NOT.  He was fined $26,739 for unnecessary roughness for his first-quarter penalty.
• The Rams finish the season in dollar-for-dollar territory.  Fines in each of their three playoff games totaled $63,504, which put them over the Level 2 number.  So $25,000 for that to start, and then another $6,660 in dollar for dollar.  That means the Rams final total for the year is almost $299,000.

So that's it for the 2018-19 NFL Fine Blotters, finally.

The Rams actually finish the year as the fourth most-fined team in the NFL -- making one wonder if THAT may also have been a factor in the rig-job that got Brady and Belichick #6.

But perhaps something far more disturbing, when you look into it.

The Rams had TWO fines by Week 8, about $33,000 in total.  Both were in Week 1, and only one was a dirty hit.

Week 1:  Roughing the Passer, TD Celebration
Week 9:  One fine:  Small unnecessary roughness fine.
Week 10:  Four different fouls:  Two facemasks, a post-game altercation, and roughing the passer.  About $53,000 from that game, about $86,000 for the season.
Week 11 was the Offense Fest with the Chiefs, no fines.
Off Week 12.
Week 13:  A horse-collar, Suh's second fine of the season
Nothing Week 14
Week 15:  Small unnecessary roughness
Nothing Week 16
Week 17:  Lowering helmet
Divisional Round:  Late hit
Championship Round:  The no-call
And the one in the Super Bowl

If you want a great idea of about three different things in the NFL here, here you go:

• The fine policy does not work
• It is clear that dirty hits got the Rams where they were -- and weren't even called or fined when it was convenient for the league push.
• And it may well have had a hand in rigging Super Bowl LIII.

Final totals league-wide, as reported:

• Total fines and penalties for game misconduct this year exceeded $5.6 million.
• Half the teams in the league received additional penalties for accumulated fines.
• Five teams were further additionally penalized for a second level of accumulation.
• Four teams received single-incident player fines exceeding $50,000.
• There were slightly over $4.5 million in announced fines this year -- over $2 million of that came Week 12 and after, after the Kareem Hunt tape and when scoring was disintegrating.

Solution:

Frankly, suspensions and stripping wins are your only real option here.  But no one wants to do that, because that would require a level of transparency no one, especially Goodell, wants.