- Garrett's appeal will be on the basis that the CBA cannot allow for an indefinite on-field suspension.
There's an easy answer to this, but the league won't do it.
You invoke it as an Unfair Act, which gives the Commissioner basically unlimited power to enforce it.
You invoke it as an Unfair Act, which gives the Commissioner basically unlimited power to enforce it.
Article 1 The Commissioner has the sole authority to investigate and take appropriate disciplinary and/or corrective measures if any club action, non-participant interference, or calamity occurs in an NFL game which he deems so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game.
Which is why the Commissioner should've forfeited this game from the Browns -- as their entire course of conduct this season constitutes actions outside the "accepted tactics encountered in professional football".
- According to an ESPN report today, "about ten" players will be fined for "involvement" in coming off the bench.
I do wonder, though, if coming off the bench adds to that.
And remember that all fines for the Browns, the team has to match because they are well above the final fine number for the year.
To give you an idea -- and this is if they don't have to match the entire fine that Garrett and Ogunjobi got in addition to their suspensions, but it is capped at $50,000, the maximum per-incident assignment to the Club Remittance number:
- Before Thursday night's game, and counting at least one Browns fine that came from Week 10, the Browns have been fined in every regular season game except one.
- The total of those reported fines is $296,249 -- that is $75,132 above the final fine level. The Browns must match that amount, and a $75,000 team fine for excessive fines.
- So, just leading into Week 11 (and assuming no other Browns fines for Week 10), the Browns, just under the Club Remittance Policy for accumulated fines, were team-fined $150,132 entering Thursday's game.
- In addition, before the suspensions announced Friday, the Browns already had two players suspended while under their control (the 10-game suspension of Antonio Callaway doesn't count, and it wouldn't be relevant now anyway): Kareem Hunt ($503,529) and and Antonio Callaway's first ($176,344) means they are fined 15% of that sum already, or $101,981.
- Meaning that, before Thursday night, the Browns TEAM has been fined $252,113 for a total fine total for the Browns of $548,362.
Now you add Thursday night:
- The Commissioner imposed a direct $250,000 fine.
- Suspensions: Both Garrett and Ogunjobi were suspended. That means the threshold now goes to the maximum for four or more suspensions of 33% of all lost salary, capped at $500,000. Garrett ($1,139,911) and Ogunjobi (doesn't matter, because the sum is already past the necessary $1.5 million) mean the Browns were fined an additional $398,019 under suspension clauses.
- The maximum assignment against a team's fine number is $50,000 per incident, so that's another $100,000.
- So, as of right now, that's $748,019 that the team is fined for Thursday.
- That doesn't count: Roughing the Passer (9:14 2nd), the other ejection (8:11 3rd), the hit that eliminated Juju Smith-Schuster from the game (if applicable -- wasn't called, same play as the 2Q RTP), anything the refs missed that the league gets otherwise, and everything else associated with the fight.
And the thing is: They are very fortunate there wasn't an 80-man Miami-Florida International job that night.
More to come on this story, including Mason Rudolph's fine. It, for the moment, appears that it might stay within the Fine Schedule, and be $35,096.
If you want any idea as to the sole importance of the quarterback in the NFL -- and not just by the media, but by the league!! -- here you go.
The league also needs to really start pushing the Club Remittance Policy on it's media, because a lot of people are saying "The Browns were only fined $250,000 -- not clearly enough!"
Look, that they're gonna play another game before December 8 is "not clearly enough"!
But if you look at league policies, they've already been fined $750,000 -- and must match all other fines their players receive from other incidents.
They're going well over $800,000 -- and that's just the team fines.
It is clear the league has to resort to invoking Unfair Acts and forfeiting games from the Browns. Coach Bountygate has not learned his lesson (which see when a lot of this started -- under HIS watch as interim head coach late last season!), HC Kitchens has NO CONTROL over the fucking team.
GET THEM OFF THE GODDAMN FIELD!
The league also needs to really start pushing the Club Remittance Policy on it's media, because a lot of people are saying "The Browns were only fined $250,000 -- not clearly enough!"
Look, that they're gonna play another game before December 8 is "not clearly enough"!
But if you look at league policies, they've already been fined $750,000 -- and must match all other fines their players receive from other incidents.
They're going well over $800,000 -- and that's just the team fines.
It is clear the league has to resort to invoking Unfair Acts and forfeiting games from the Browns. Coach Bountygate has not learned his lesson (which see when a lot of this started -- under HIS watch as interim head coach late last season!), HC Kitchens has NO CONTROL over the fucking team.
GET THEM OFF THE GODDAMN FIELD!
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