AFC South: Penalties
The AFC South's top penalty perpetrators
December, 15, 2011
12/15/11
10:39
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By
Paul Kuharsky | ESPN.com
An overdue check in on the AFC South’s primary penalty offenders, courtesy of Jeremy Mills of ESPN Stats and Info.
Some notes:
Some notes:
- Houston cornerback Kareem Jackson leads the division with 99 penalty yards on five penalties (four accepted), highlighted by pass interference penalties of 41 and 30 yards.
- Smith has four offsides, two personal fouls, two roughing the passer and one neutral zone infraction.
- Lacey has six separate penalty types -- three pass interference, an offside, a face mask, a fair catch interference, a holding and a running into the kicker. That’s impressive diversity!
- Mike Brisiel is the only player on the list with no declined penalties -- five false starts, two holding and one face mask.
Penalty tracker: Our primary offenders
October, 26, 2011
10/26/11
1:41
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By
Paul Kuharsky | ESPN.com
We are overdue to check in on penalties in the AFC South, so here’s an account from ESPN Stats and Info on the primary offenders:
Notes:
Notes:
- Lacey has three pass interferences, an offensive holding, a face mask and a running into the kicker. If a cornerback is beat, it’s usually better for him to draw a flag then let a guy go. But I’d like him not to be in that position very often.
- All five of Meester’s penalties are holding, but four have been declined. Declined penalties get guys off the hook in a lot of ways but shouldn’t. They are still committing the foul, it’s just the context that is helping them.
- Smith had two offside, a face mask, an illegal use of hands and an unnecessary roughness penalties. A nice smorgasbord of infractions.
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