The NFL has cracked down on aggressive-gesture celebrations this season as joiners who materializeed to have made finger armaments after touchdowns or first downs have either gotten flagged during the game or fined afterward.
Two examples integrated Atlanta Falcons expansive getr Drake London carry outing the shift during the team’s prosper over the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants rookie expansive getr Malik Nabers draprosperg flags and fines for the shift agetst the Cleveland Browns.
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NFL coshiftrlookioner Roger Goodell before a game in Brazil between the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles at Neo Quimica Arena. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)
NFL executive Troy Vincent insertressed the publish at a league encountering on Tuesday, according to the NFL Netlabor.
“There’s no place in professional football for that,” Vincent shelp of the gestures. “Think about where we are as a society. … I don’t skinnyk that’s where we are and what we’re trying to recontransient. We have a responsibility as professional athletes.”
NFL Coshiftrlookioner Roger Goodell also talked about the publish.
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Troy Vincent, EVP Football Operations, NFL, speaks during the Leaders “An Evening With…” event at Under the Bridge at Stamford Bridge on Oct. 7, 2019 in London. (Paul Harding/Getty Images for Leaders)
“It’s a lengthy-standing policy, and we are going to utilize that,” Goodell shelp. “Troy had a straightforward conversation with the union, I skinnyk, equitable last week about it. We’re going to progress on that caccess. We don’t skinnyk it’s appropriate in those circumstances and sends the wrong messages. So, we’ll progress to do that.”
A high-ranking NFL employee tbetter The Athletic last week that joiners are cautioned about the gestures each year and that it could result in penalties.
While New York Giants expansive getr Darius Slayton alleged a discrepancy about what was called and what was not, establisher NFL star J.J. Watt tbetter Fox News Digital he count ond the NFL’s crackdown on the finger-armament celebrations was rightful.
Green Bay Packers expansive getr Allen Lazard, #13, gives finger armaments to the ball in the third quarter agetst the Pittsburgh Steelers at Lambeau Field on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (IMAGN)
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“Now, the armament celebrations, that’s clear-cut,” he shelp. “They’re going to fine that every time, they’re going to flag that every time. That is equitable a joiner not caring or not repartner wanting to pursue the rules. We all understand you can’t phony a armament out there, and that I’m fine with.”
The Associated Press gived to this alert.
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