Saturday, September 21, 2019

2019 NFL Fine Blotter, Week 2 Part 2: We have history, ladies and gentlemen...

  • Cleveland Browns:  Myles Garrett:  $42,112 -- $21,056 each for two Roughing the Passer fines.  Meaning that Garrett, in just two weeks, is now a THREE TIME LOSER in the fines -- he has already been fined $52,629.  Garrett had four penalties Monday night.
  • Cleveland Browns:  Mack Wilson:  $28,075 for helmet to helmet
  • Meaning more history for the Browns:  The Browns become the first team, to my knowledge, to reach the team fine threshold for a $50,000 team fine BY WEEK TWO.  The Browns have now been fined by the NFL on the field eight times already since the pre-season -- seven in the two regular-season games.
  • I have four years of Fine Blotter charts on this computer.  No one has gotten even reasonably close to the $168,447 that the Browns have.  About the two closest were the teams that led the league the last two years:  
  • The Steelers two years ago, who racked up $85,081 in the first two weeks and followed that up with a $91,498 Week 6 on their way to a team fine of $191,317 (meaning they exceeded the dollar-for-dollar limit by over $90,000!) and a total fine for on the field of $465,136.
  • And then the Jets last year:  $86,216 in the preseason, another $20,052 in the first two weeks -- so just over $100,000 for that.  The big one was Week 16, still a league record:  $121,927 alone -- most of that dollar for dollar.  Meaning their team fine for on the field was $166,137 (and with the second fine level being reduced to a $25,000 base fine, that meant about the same $90,000+ overage as the Steelers last year) and $467,861.
  • The Browns are already at $218,447.  The first level kicks in at $147,415 -- dollar for dollar kicks in at $221,116 -- a number the Browns are only $52,669 away.
  • Counting their fines for drug suspensions, the team has already been fined over $150,000 and, with the players' fines, it's over $320,000 -- WEEK TWO, ladies and gentlemen!
  • Dallas Cowboys:  DeMarcus Lawrence:  $21,056 for Roughing the Passer.
  • Minnesota Vikings:  Stefon Diggs:  $10,527 for taunting.
  • Green Bay Packers:  Jaire Alexander:  $10,527 for an altercation with...
  • Minnesota Vikings:  Adam Thielen:  who got fined the same amount.
  • Minnesota Vikings:  Kris Boyd:  $28,075 for unnecessary roughness -- that's probably a helmet violation.
  • Pittsburgh Steelers:  Bud DuPree:  $21,056 for Roughing the Passer -- blow to the head.  And judging by the video, it should've been far more.  That was an ejectable under the new helmet rule.

  • Buffalo Bills:  Cody Ford:  $10,526 for a shove after a taunt.
  • Buffalo Bills:  Dawson Knox: $28,075 for a blindside block.
  • Oakland Raiders:  Max Crosby:  $21,056 for Roughing the Passer
  • Green Bay Packers:  Blake Martinez:  $28,075 for unnecessary roughness.
  • San Francisco 49ers:  Solomon Thomas:  $21,056 for a late hit (probably QB).
  • Carolina Panthers:  Gerald McCoy:  $10,527 for unsportsmanlike conduct
  • Los Angeles Rams:  Marcus Peters:  $10,527 for unsportsmanlike conduct
That's already $334,214 with the $50,000 team fine for the Browns.  And there may be more to add to the Week 2 total.  Stay tuned.

For the two weeks and the pre-season, that's over $900,000 on the field.

No comments:

Post a Comment