Following a Week 3 game between the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers, it appeared inevitable that several fines would be handed down from the NFL.
After all, the 49ers played a very dirty game that saw offensive lineman Trent Williams punch defensive tackle A’Shawn Robinson in the face and center Jake Brendel deliberately injure defensive tackle D.J. Davidson.
Buy Giants TicketsWilliams was penalized but not ejected for his flagrant personal foul, while Brendel didn’t even draw a flag.
After the game, the NFL offered up a lame excuse for why Williams wasn’t ejected.
“When we have a flag thrown on the field for unnecessary roughness, members of the officiating department are able to review available video, Rule 19, to determine if there is a flagrant action that should result in a disqualification,” NFL senior vice president of officiating Walt Anderson said after the game. “We ended up looking at the video we had available to us, and we just didn’t see anything that rose to the level of flagrant, which is the standard that we have to apply to disqualify the player.”
The league’s clown show continued this week as Brendel somehow escaped both a fine and a suspension. And while Williams was fined $11,473 for his punch, he also avoided a suspension.
Adding to the circus, the NFL fined A’Shawn Robinson the same $11,473 for unnecessary roughness and also hit linebacker Jihad Ward with a $8,139 fine for unnecessary roughness.
Still not laughing at the show? Well, the NFL decided to hit Giants defensive lineman Leonard Williams with the game’s biggest fine, slapping him with an invoice for $16,391. The reasoning? Because he made a very normal, everyday football play.
Just to recap: Robinson was fined the same amount as Trent Williams after getting punched in the face.
And this “penalty:”
Leonard Williams got fined $16,391 for this hit lol pic.twitter.com/XTZezSPLhe
— 𝙻̷𝚞̷𝚜̷ 📯 (@Theylovelus) September 30, 2023
Was fined more than this non-penalty:
Dirty play by @49ers Jake Brendel to injure @Giants DJ Davidson dragging him to the ground after the play. #ThursdayNightFootball #trash pic.twitter.com/EI7ODBC4de
— Jason (@goldeneagleFB) September 22, 2023
Okay then.
