After further review (?) and 2025 Week Seven Discipline Blotter: This one is interesting...

This was the game-winning kick for the Broncos yesterday.

Watch afterward, as Dre Greenlaw pursues the official and actually draws a post-game flag.

 

Something caught my eye from Lutz's game-winning kick yesterday:

After the play, Dre Greenlaw runs after the ref, yelling at him, and the ref actually throws a flag.

It was after the play, and the game was over, so idk what happens.

Just a fine for Greenlaw? Something more? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/LqFTfPV0vV

— Alex Wilcox (@AlexWilcoxTV) October 20, 2025

Greenlaw has been suspended by the NFL for that outburst for one game.  I do think this one will be appealed to a fine.

There was no contact with the official, so it's obvious that the official had to report what he had said to get the suspension.

The NFL quoted the general rule about prohibition of "the use of abusive, threatening or insulting language or gestures to opponents, teammates, officials, or representatives of the League."

That's fine.  That's usually, however, going to be a fine reported on Saturday.  Usually a rather stiff one, but a fine nonetheless.

I can understand if the referee felt challenged and had to throw the flag to report it to the league, etc. and so forth.

But it is CLEAR that Greenlaw said something real bad.

Also, I think it's time for football to change the rule that the score can come off the board in cases like that.  And yes, that would mean game over and Broncos lose in that case. 

EDIT TO ADD 5:15 PM 10/20:  It appears the suspension was a physical threat to the official, based on Greenlaw interpreting the ref trying to extricate himself from the celebration as an aggressive act.

If that's the case, Greenlaw should be suspended indefinitely, pending a face-to-face meeting with Goodell and the head of the NFLPA in New York. 

EDIT TO ADD 6:40 PM 10/21:  Suspension UPHELD.

We need to know what he said, NFL.  I no longer believe one game was sufficient -- not necessarily because of the incident itself, but, to give context, Bill Belichick physically attacked a replacement referee after that famous "Bovine Excrement" game in Baltimore and a controversial call on the Ravens winning the game at the horn.

He was only fined $50,000.

I get the general rule, but this smells like direct physical threat to the referee's safety -- and that's more than one game in my book.