Here is something that will be very humbling for you. At least three cases where the Titans have been caught circumventing the rules. In other words, cheated.
All Tennessee Titans Cheats:
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Cheapsgate (5x since 2010) Modified: 04/17/2015">to top ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵
TEAM: The Tennessee Titans
SEVERITY:
SUMMARY: Players who freely use illegal hits as part of their game give themselves an unfair advantage versus those who play by the rules. A team's cheap shots fined below $25K are not counted at all. Individual cheap shots are penalized very lightly (0.25 cameras per $25K fine). It's only when a team puts together a string of cheap shots that the overall severity rises to a significant level. I'm looking at your Detroit.
SEVERITY = 0.25 video cameras per NFL punished incident with a fine over $25K. Tallied from 2010 until today. Treble-severity (0.75 cameras per game) is assessed for game suspensions, as they punish particularly malicious hits.
Example 1: $35K fine with no suspension = 0.35 cameras. Example 2: $55K fine and one game suspension = 0.55 + 0.75 = 1.3 cameras. Example 3: $125K fine and two game suspension = 1.25 + 0.75 + 0.75 = 2.75 cameras. A team's cheap shot points are summed and rounded to the nearest whole or half camera rating.
- CB Cortland Finnegan (2010: $25K for fighting)
- OLB Will Witherspoon (2010: $40K for a helmet-to-helmet hit)
- S Michael Griffin (2013: suspended one game for hits to the head)
- S Bernard Pollard (2013: $42K for a hit on a defenseless player)
- TE Chase Coffman (2014: $30K for unsportsmanlike conduct)
VICTIM: The entire league
PUNISHED? Yes
PUNISHMENT: In what was called "The Cheap Shot of the Season", Tennessee Titans tight end Chase Coffman was fined (not enough) for a cowardly blind-siding of a Baltimore Ravens assistant in 2014. The NFL only fined him $30,000 for the blatant cheap shot.
For those who didn't see the video, Coffman leveled an unsuspecting Ravens assistant coach on the sideline following an interception. If that wasn't bad enough, it appears that Coffman dragged his foot over the flattened coach.
A year earlier, safety Michael Griffin was suspended without pay for one game for a repeat violation of NFL safety rules prohibiting hits to the head and neck area of defenseless players. The suspension was imposed by NFL Vice President of Football Operations MERTON HANKS.
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PEDSgate (4x since 2000) Modified: 04/29/2015">to top ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵
TEAM: The Tennessee Titans
SEVERITY:
SUMMARY: Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) are used by players to illegally improve athletic performance above what legal training and preparation can do.
Players who illegally improve their performance unfairly penalize players who follow the rules. They not only put those players at risk for physical injury, but they also affect their economic livelihood by impacting their perceived value and their ability to secure appropriately-valued playing contracts.
SEVERITY = 0.5 video cameras per punished incident. Includes all documented infractions from 1960 to present with this Wikipedia page as the primary source.
- DT Josh Evans (2000)
- RB Chris Henry (2007)
- LB Gerald McRath (2010)
- FB Ahmard Hall (2011)
VICTIM: The entire league
PUNISHED? Yes
PUNISHMENT: Evans was suspended for the entire 2000 season after a third violation. The remaining players were suspended for four games for violating the league's performance-enhancing drug policy.
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Tampergate (ongoing) Modified: 03/31/2015">to top ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵
TEAM: All 32 NFL Teams
SEVERITY:
SUMMARY: Tampering with free agents is rampant, it's laughable and it is against the rules (PDF). It's so bad across every team in the league that the NFL had to create a three-day legal tampering period. However, tampering still regularly occurs long before that annual three-day window opens. On March 9, 2015 the league once again felt compelled to warn all 32 teams about not tampering.
Why is tampering considered a problem? Because tampering with players still under contract makes it difficult for clubs to re-sign their own talent. It also puts those few teams that actually follow NFL guidelines at a distinct disadvantage. In many cases, contract agreements are in place days before any negotiations are allowed to begin.
This isn't fair, it isn't legal, and it is blatant cheating by the teams who engage in the practice.
VICTIM: The entire league
PUNISHED? No but...
PUNISHMENT: NFL commissioner and former Jets public relations intern Roger Goodell is doing all he can to curtail and punish the "commonplace" practice, although it admits that there is so much tampering that it is hard to police it all.
The CheatPoints earned for this leaguewide cheat is for all of this team's tampering incidents that have gone undiscovered or unproven. If specific instances are discovered, they are punished on top of this leaguewide penalty.
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Every team does a little something. That is pretty hard for perhaps you to accept. I understand.
Couldn't possibly be less interested.
Please try harder.
Much harder.