Patriots finish tied for fourth-most penalties

[IcyPatriot]

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-...atriots-finish-tied-for-fourth-most-penalties

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The New England Patriots finished with 120 accepted penalties this season, which tied the Denver Broncos for fourth most in the NFL. Only the Seahawks (130), Bills (124) and Rams (123) had more.

PENALTY LEADERBOARD
CB Brandon Browner – 15
LT Nate Solder – 10
CB Logan Ryan – 8
TE Rob Gronkowski – 7
WR Brandon LaFell – 7
CB Malcolm Butler – 6
OT Marcus Cannon – 6
S Patrick Chung – 5
LB Jamie Collins -- 5
OL Jordan Devey – 5
C Bryan Stork – 5
CB Darrelle Revis – 4
OL Ryan Wendell – 4
Six tied with three apiece

 

[neuronet]

hitting too hard (browner) and holding (solder): refs should call those less in the playoffs, no? Those two players account for 20% of our penalties, which is sort of crazy...

 

[SalemPats]

We were the 4thmost penalized, but considering the fact that we went from Mayo to Collins as the defensive play caller you knew there would be an adjustment period.

On the offensive end, the one thing that worries me is the O-Line holding calls. Solder is slow and consistently takes penalties against speedy D-lineman. He can play with the physical ones, it's the quick ones that can beat him around the edge with speed.

 

[bogengames]

Its probably my partisan imagination but it seems to me that teams that start to distance themselves from their opponents start getting a lot of tikitack calls. Pats often start to pull away and that's when refs feel the need to throw the flags. As I said its probably my fans view. Of course if its the giant forehead he must be protected

 

[RobertWeathers]

We were the 4thmost penalized, but considering the fact that we went from Mayo to Collins as the defensive play caller you knew there would be an adjustment period.

What correlation does Mayo's absence have to do with Browner,Chung, Butler and Ryan's combined 34 penalties?

On the offensive end, the one thing that worries me is the O-Line holding calls. Solder is slow and consistently takes penalties against speedy D-lineman. He can play with the physical ones, it's the quick ones that can beat him around the edge with speed.

I think losing Mankins had more of an impact than we know.

 

[The Brandon Five]

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-...atriots-finish-tied-for-fourth-most-penalties

Most of those calls (OPI) on Lafell would never happen if he was a Bronco.

 

[Oswlek]

Nowhere else to put this, so here'll have to do

I was poking around snap counts and was surprised at how similar things were to the past years. I would have figured the total defensive snaps would be down or offensive snaps up from last year or at least Wilfork's snaps to be down but none of these appear to be true.

Last year, NE 1,156 total defensive snaps, this year 1,096. Wilfork played 810 snaps this year and hit 888 in his full season two years ago (out of ~1,080 [estimated by taking the highest defensive snap count from here and adding a few extraneous]).

Offensive snaps last year were 1,200 and this year NE hit 1,133. Nink had 1,105 last year and 1,029 this year.

Cue the "more things things change the more they stay the same" cliche.

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

Seems about right. Sooo many gas this year. Who was least penalized team?

 

[RobertWeathers]

Seems about right. Sooo many gas this year. Who was least penalized team?

JAX

http://www.nflpenalties.com/

 

[DarrylS]

The most penalized teams in 2013 were the Seahawks and Denver..

Not sure penalties are a barometer of anything, but am concerned with stupid penalties..

Every expected an increase in penalties in 2014.. there were 3245 total penalties in '13 and 3386 in '14, which does not seem all that significant.

 

[RelocatedPatFan]

So we improved our position (had fewer penalties) as we approached the end of the season. Not sure if that was a good thing?

 

[Betterthanmost]

Has anybody seen that the teams with the high number of penalties accepted are those teams with the good defenses? Look number of penalties proximate good defense instead of indiscipline as many here has been led to believe. Yes, procedure penalties are stupid and should be rid of. Will you rather be JAX with the least penalized team? Live on the edge, they can't call penalties every snap. Pete Carrol has figured it out!

 

[scott99]

I guess the haters can now shut up about the refs being in the Pat's pocket.

 

[Rob0729]

The last two Super Bowl winners led the league in penalties. So getting a lot of penalties is not necessarily a bad thing.