Hold On – Week 11 2022
November 24, 2022
By Noonefromtampa
Washington played a decent game against a not very good football team that has been hindered by poor roster decisions and questionable coaching. The best of part the game was that penalties and officiating had minimal impact on the outcome.
Through week 11 of games, 1,941 penalties have been enforced for 15,976 yards in 163 games yielding an average of 5.95 penalties per team per game and 49 yards lost per team per game. Washington had been called for 62 penalties across 11 games totaling 597 yards lost for an average of 5.6 penalties per game and 54.3 yards lost per game. The team’s average number of penalty calls is slightly under the league average while their average yards lost is over by 5.3 yards a game.
The most penalized teams in the league are:
- Denver – 83 penalties for 696 yards
- Arizona – 79 penalties for 629 yards
- New Orleans – 74 penalties for 615 yards
- Seattle – 72 penalties for 608 yards
- Dallas – 70 penalties for 540 yards
The top 5 penalty calls across the league are:
- Offensive Holding, 367 times, 3,530 yards
- False Start, 360 times, 1,774 yards
- Defensive Pass Interference, 142 times, 2441 yards
- Defensive Holding, 137 times, 646 yards
- Delay of Game, 105 times, 523 yards
Washington leads the entire league in defensive pass interference (11 calls) and is tied for first with New Orleans in illegal use of hands penalties, with 5 calls.
Game Summary
Philadelphia – 2 accepted penalties (4 declined) for 15 yards, gave up 1 first down via penalty
Washington – 5 accepted penalties (1 declined) for 36 yards, gave up 1 first down via penalty
This is the summary of penalties committed by each team:
By Penalty:
| Penalty | Houston | Washington | Grand Total |
| Delay of Game | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| False Start | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Illegal Contact | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Offensive Holding | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Unnecessary Roughness | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grand Total | 2 | 5 | 7 |
By Unit:
| Team | Defense | Offense | ST | Grand Total |
| Houston | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Washington | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Grand Total | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
By Player:
| Team | Player | Penalty | Accepted | Declined |
| Houston | K. Green | Offensive Holding | 1 | 1 |
| Ineligible Downfield Pass | 0 | 1 | ||
| D. King | Illegal Contact | 1 | 0 | |
| Offense | Illegal Shift | 0 | 1 | |
| Defense | Illegal Formation | 0 | 1 | |
| Washington | T. Turner | Offensive Holding | 1 | 0 |
| J. Ridgeway | Unnecessary Roughness | 1 | 0 | |
| C. Holmes | Offensive Holding | 1 | 0 | |
| K. Hudson | Running Into the Kicker | 0 | 1 | |
| C. Cheeseman | False Start | 1 | 0 | |
| Offense | Delay of Game | 1 | 0 |
Game Impactors
The penalties coming closest to game impactors were the illegal contact call on Desmond King on the Commanders lone offensive touchdown drive. That call gave Washington a first down on the Houston 26 yard line and the scored 2 plays later on the Curtis Samuel running play.
The penalty that got everyone excited was the unnecessary roughness call on John Ridgeway for his WWE-style tackle of Dameon Pierce. Fortunately, Pierce was unhurt and while the Texans got a first down at the Washington 5 yard line, the Washington defense kept them out of the end zone behind a Montez Sweat third down sack of Davis Mills.
Yearly Totals
By Player:
| Player | Accepted | Declined | Offsetting | Reversed |
| Offense | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| B. St-Juste | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| R. Wildgoose | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Wentz | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| W. Jackson | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Holmes | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| K. Fuller | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| M. Sweat | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Rogers | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| N. Martin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| K. Hudson | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| T. Turner | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Leno | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Norwell | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Sims | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| S. Cosmi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Ridgeway | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Lucas | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| E. Obada | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| A. Newell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D. Forrest | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D. Payne | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| B. McCain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Holcomb | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Smith-Williams | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T. Larsen | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Reaves | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| S. Charles | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Dotson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| C. Cheeseman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| J. Allen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By Penalty:
| Penalty | Defense | Offense | ST | Grand Total |
| Offensive Holding | 0 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| Defensive Pass Interference | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| False Start | 0 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| Delay of Game | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Illegal Use of Hands | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Illegal Contact | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Intentional Grounding | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Unnecessary Roughness | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Defensive Holding | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Illegal Double-Team Block | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Defensive Too Many Men on Field | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Face Mask | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Offensive Pass Interference | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Neutral Zone Infraction | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Illegal Formation | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Roughing the Passer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grand Total | 24 | 27 | 11 | 62 |
A new feature requested by one of our faithful followers is 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 |
| 11 | 8 | 63 | 5 | 53 | 4 | 38 | 5 | 36 |
Sources: nfl.com, nflpenalties.com
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