Hold On – Week 11

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November 24, 2020

By Noonefromtampa

A win is win, even if you have to destroy the opponent’s starting quarterback’s knee to get the win. Once Joe Burrow left this game, the Cincinnati Bengals’ fight seem to leave the stadium too. It wasn’t a spectacular win, and Alex Smith was not on fire this week, but they had just enough to beat a mediocre team missing the star quarterback.

Looking at penalties, the game seemed to me to be very uneven from an officiating standpoint. In my opinion, there was confusion about calls and a lot of missed calls, resulting in a not-so-great performance by this officiating crew. For instance, we had a  safety that was not a safety on the Burrow’s fumble and a facemask penalty on Daron Payne where he never touched the facemask. The officials could have called a personal foul for striking the head of the player and I would have been fine with that. I know I’m being picky, but you want the officials to call the correct penalties, since, as was the case in last week’s game, it can be a game changer.

In the Bengals game, Washington was called for six penalties  and all accepted for 49 yards while the Bengals were called for four penalties with 3 accepted for 31 yards.

Washington is averaging 5.0 penalty calls a game, still well under the 8.2 average penalty calls per game in 2019.

The breakdowns through week 11 are as follows:

  Washington Opponent
Week Accepted Declined Offset Accepted Declined Offset
1 7 0 0 3 0 0
2 6 1 0 11 1 0
3 4 1 0 5 0 0
4 2 0 0 5 1 0
5 3 0 0 5 0 0
6 4 1 0 8 1 0
7 4 1 0 6 2 0
9 6 0 0 4 1 0
10 7 2 0 9 9 0
11 6 0 0 3 1 0

 

WFT holds a 52-yard edge over their opponents in total penalty yards:

Week Washington Opponent Total Yards
1 55 20 75
2 42 97 139
3 40 50 90
4 20 30 50
5 40 60 100
6 50 30 80
7 30 50 80
9 45 40 85
10 58 55 113
11 49 31 80
Total Yards 430 463 892

 

Next, the following chart shows the break down of accepted penalties by unit:

  Washington Opponent
Week Defense Offense Spec Tms Defense Offense Spec Tms
1 5 1 1 2 0 1
2 2 2 2 4 7 0
3 1 3 0 2 4 0
4 1 1 0 1 4 0
5 2 0 1 3 2 2
6 5 2 1 2 1 1
7 3 1 0 4 2 0
9 2 4 0 2 2 0
10 3 3 1 5 4 0
11 3 3 0 2 1 0
Total 27 20 6 27 25 4

 

The top penalties committed by WFT are offensive holding calls, neutral zone infractions, defensive offside and false starts:

Penalty Accepted Declined Grand Total
Clipping 1 0 1
Defensive Holding 1 0 1
Defensive Offside 5 1 6
Defensive Pass Interference 2 1 3
Delay of Game 5 0 5
Disqualification 1 0 1
Encroachment 2 0 2
Facemask 1 0 1
False Start 5 0 5
Horse Collar Tackle 1 0 1
Illegal Block Above the Waist 1 0 1
Illegal Double-Team Block 1 0 1
Illegal Motion 1 0 1
Illegal Touch Kick 1 0 1
Illegal Use of Hands 2 0 2
Ineligible Downfield Pass 0 3 3
Lowering the Head to Initiate Contact 2 0 2
Neutral Zone Infraction 6 0 6
Offensive Holding 6 0 6
Offensive Offside 1 0 1
Offensive Pass Interference 1 1 2
Roughing the Passer 3 0 3
Taunting 1 0 1
Too Many Men on Field 1 0 1
Unnecessary Roughness 2 0 2

 

The penalties committed by player are as follows:

Player Accepted Declined Grand Total
B. Scherff 2 1 3
C. Roullier 2 1 3
C. Sims 1 1 2
C. Young 2 1 3
D. Everett 2 0 2
D. Inman 1 0 1
D. Johnson 1 0 1
D. Payne 3 0 3
D. Sharpe 2 0 2
Defense 1 0 1
G. Christian 1 0 1
J. Allen 1 0 1
J. Bostic 1 0 1
J. McKissic 1 0 1
J. Smith-Williams 1 0 1
K. Allen 1 0 1
K. Fuller 1 1 2
K. Hudson 2 0 2
K. Pierre-Louis 1 0 1
L. Collins 2 0 2
L. Thomas 2 0 2
M. Ioannidis 1 0 1
M. Moses 2 1 3
M. Sweat 7 0 7
Offense 5 0 5
R. Anderson 1 0 1
R. Kerrigan 2 0 2
T. Apke 1 0 1
T. McLaurin 1 0 1
T. Settle 1 0 1
W. Martin 1 0 1
Grand Total 53 6 59

 

Thru week 11, your top three most penalized players are (1) Montez Sweat, with 7 penalty calls, all accepted; (2) the offense with 5 calls (delay of game), all accepted; and (3) Daron Payne (3 calls, all accepted) and Morgan Moses (3 calls, 2 accepted).

As always, you can tweet penalty questions you would like see answered to me @noonefromtampa.

Statistics source: nflpenalties.com, nfl.com