This isn’t going away. NBC Sports’ Mike Florio first reported Sunday evening that suspensions could be coming for the players involved in Week 2’s brawl between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New Orleans Saints, in which Buccaneers running back Leonard Fournette and quarterback Tom Brady were jawing with Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore after a critical late-game stop on fourth down.
Some pushing and shoving started up, then Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans threw Lattimore to the ground, and the benches cleared. NFL senior vice president of officiating Walt Anderson called in from the league office in New York and ordered Lattimore and Evans both be ejected, though he chose to let the instigator, Fournette, remain in the game. Afterwards Anderson told Nola.com’s Luke Johnson that “We just did not feel like those actions rose to the level of disqualification.”
