Hold On – Week 10, 2022
November 18, 2022
By Noonefromtampa
Washington finally played a game where they got most of the penalty breaks in the game. I’ll have more details in the game impactor section below. The two most penalized players on the Commanders now are Rachad Wildgoose, with 4 defensive pass interference (DPI) calls and a special teams holding call, and Benjamin St-Juste, who has two defensive pass interference calls, 2 illegal use of hands, and 1 illegal contact call.
Through week 10 of games, 1,789 penalties have been enforced for 14,679 yards in 150 games yielding an average of 5.96 penalties per team per game and 48.9 yards lost per team per game. Washington had been called for 57 penalties across 10 games totaling 561 yards lost for an average of 5.7 penalties per game and 56.1 yards lost per game. The team’s average number of penalty calls is slightly under the league average while average yards lost is over by 7.2 yards a game.
The most penalized teams in the league are:
- Denver – 78 penalties for 651 yards
- Arizona – 74 penalties for 579 yards
- Seattle – 72 penalties for 608 yards
- New Orleans – 72 penalties for 600 yards
- Dallas – 64 penalties for 501 yards
The top 5 penalty calls across the league are:
- False Start, 353 times
- Offensive Holding, 329 times
- Defensive Pass Interference, 134 times
- Defensive Holding, 127 times
- Delay of Game, 95 times
Washington leads the entire league in defensive pass interference (11 calls) and is tied for first (with New Orleans) in illegal use of hands (5 calls).
Game Summary
Philadelphia – 7 accepted penalties for 75 yards, gave up 4 first downs via penalty
Washington – 5 accepted penalties (1 declined) for 58 yards, gave up 1 first down via penalty
This is the summary of penalties committed by each team:
By Penalty:
| Penalty | Philadelphia | Washington | Grand Total |
| Defensive Pass Interference | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Delay of Game | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| False Start | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Illegal Contact | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Ineligible Downfield Kick | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Offensive Holding | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Offensive Pass Interference | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Roughing the Kicker | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Unnecessary Roughness | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Grand Total | 7 | 5 | 12 |
By Unit:
| Team | Defense | Offense | ST | Grand Total |
| Philadelphia | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Washington | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Grand Total | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
By Player:
| Against | Player | Penalty | Accepted | Declined |
| Philadelphia | L. Dickerson | Offensive Holding | 1 | 0 |
| R. Lovato | Ineligible Downfield Kick | 1 | 0 | |
| C. Gardner-Johnson | Unnecessary Roughness | 1 | 0 | |
| R. Blankenship | Roughing the Kicker | 1 | 0 | |
| B. Graham | Unnecessary Roughness | 1 | 0 | |
| D. Goedert | Offensive Holding | 1 | 0 | |
| D. Slay | Illegal Contact | 1 | 0 | |
| Washington | T. Larsen | Ineligible Downfield Pass | 0 | 1 |
| J. Dotson | Offensive Pass Interference | 1 | 0 | |
| A. Rogers | Offensive Holding | 1 | 0 | |
| C. Lucas | False Start | 1 | 0 | |
| B. St-Juste | Defensive Pass Interference | 1 | 0 | |
| Offense | Delay of Game | 1 | 0 |
Game Impactors
First one was the roughing the kicker call on the first Washington punt which gave the Commanders a first down and seemed like a positive thing at the time. Taylor Heinicke was strip-sacked on the next play to give the Eagles a short field on which they scored four plays later.
Benjamin St-Juste was called for defensive pass interference again this week. There was obvious hand fighting going on and St-Juste was able to knock down the ball but the Eagles ended up with a first goal at the six. They scored on the next play.
Dallas Goedert fumbled the ball in the fourth quarter, which was recovered by Jamin Davis, but what was missed was an obvious facemask penalty on Davis which would have negated the turnover allowing the Eagles to keep the ball. Joey Slyve was able to kick a 58 yard field goal.
Jahan Dotson was called for offensive pass interference on a rub play to free up Curtis Samuel when he contacted the defensive players. It was marginal call, but Dotson needs to learn to avoid the contact but impede the defender trying to cover the receiver. Washington had to punt the ball away.
Brandon Graham made a terrible mental mistake by hitting Heinicke after he had gone to his knee giving up a sack. It was a particularly hard hit, but it was obviously very late and drew a flag. That effectively cost the Eagles the game. Philadelphia fans cried foul, but it was the correct call.
Yearly Totals
By Player:
| Player | Accepted | Declined | Offsetting | Reversed |
| B. St-Juste | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| R. Wildgoose | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Offense | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Wentz | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| W. Jackson | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Rogers | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| N. Martin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Holmes | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| M. Sweat | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| K. Fuller | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| S. Cosmi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Leno | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Norwell | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Sims | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Lucas | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T. Larsen | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Smith-Williams | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| E. Obada | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D. Forrest | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Holcomb | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| A. Newell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Reaves | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| S. Charles | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Ridgeway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D. Payne | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| K. Hudson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T. Turner | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Dotson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Allen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| B. McCain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By Penalty:
| Penalty | Defense | Offense | ST | Grand Total |
| Defensive Pass Interference | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| False Start | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Offensive Holding | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| Illegal Use of Hands | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Delay of Game | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Illegal Contact | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Intentional Grounding | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Defensive Holding | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Unnecessary Roughness | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Face Mask | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Defensive Too Many Men on Field | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Roughing the Passer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Offensive Pass Interference | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Illegal Double-Team Block | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Illegal Formation | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Neutral Zone Infraction | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grand Total | 23 | 26 | 8 | 57 |
A new feature asked for by one of our faithful followers, a comparison of penalties across the years 2019-2022 by week.
Year to Year Comparison:
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |||||
| Week | Count | Yards | Count | Yards | Count | Yards | Count | Yards |
| 1 | 12 | 96 | 7 | 55 | 8 | 57 | 6 | 63 |
| 2 | 6 | 44 | 6 | 42 | 9 | 80 | 2 | 17 |
| 3 | 9 | 61 | 4 | 40 | 5 | 38 | 4 | 48 |
| 4 | 12 | 58 | 2 | 20 | 6 | 85 | 11 | 136 |
| 5 | 6 | 72 | 3 | 40 | 5 | 37 | 9 | 71 |
| 6 | 6 | 56 | 8 | 50 | 6 | 44 | 7 | 36 |
| 7 | 7 | 47 | 4 | 30 | 4 | 50 | 7 | 54 |
| 8 | 4 | 46 | 6 | 45 | 4 | 29 | 3 | 52 |
| 9 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 58 | 3 | 33 | 3 | 26 |
| 10 | 11 | 66 | 6 | 49 | 8 | 69 | 5 | 58 |
Sources: nfl.com, nflpenalties.com
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