Sorry, been a Hell of a week, and this is a week where I am probably not allowed an opinion on the very central subject of the week (non-sports).
You may eventually get it anyway, but we'll see.
As for the rest of the blotter, there's no need to continue to list it as the NFL does so on a week-to-week basis themselves now. (Scroll to Week 1 if you see this in a later week.)
But there are some points to be made:
- Counting the suspension incident, which was not in Saturday's announcement, there were 17 total fineable offenses in the NFL for Week 1.
- True to the NFL's Point of Emphasis on Taunting fouls, six of them were for Unsportsmanlike Conduct fouls.
- Counting the suspension incident, there were six fineable offenses in that Thursday night opener. Four for Philly, two for Dallas.
- Including the biggest other fine of the week, a hip-drop tackle which cost Philadelphia's Jakorian Bennett over $23,000 and the Eagles over $110,000 as a team, as well as dollar-for-dollar for all fines going forward this season under the new policy.
- Brian Branch probably should've been ejected against the Packers, as he was fined for two separate incidents on the same play (a facemask and a taunting) less than five minutes into the game.
- Is the NFL looking harder at the national games? Six incidents in the Thursday nighter, one Friday night, four in the National Game of the Week in Green Bay, two in the Monday nighter -- that's 13 of the 17 incidents.
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