A pair of Cowboys found themselves $5,000 lighter in the wallet today.
According to Charean Williams of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the NFL determined that Dallas left tackle Flozell Adams “unnecessarily struck his opponent in the head area” while blocking on an end-around.
Meanwhile, safety Gerald Sensabaugh got docked for a horse-collar tackle on Tampa running back Carnell Williams.
The NFL doesn’t give a full accounting of all fines assessed to players in a given week, only those about which the league is specifically asked. Still, between game-action fines we’ve seen reported and the fines handed down to Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Texans corner Dunta Robinson, there have been $155,000 in fines imposed. (Robinson’s $25,000 fine was levied by Houston.)
Tack on the $125,000 fine Lorenzo Loose Lips cost the Jets and their 2008 braintrust, and that’s a cool $280,000 in fines levied by the NFL or its clubs.
That we know about.