{"id":281006,"date":"2025-11-09T09:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/281006\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T09:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:33:09","slug":"nfl-fines-rashod-bateman-25154-for-verbal-abuse-of-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/281006\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL fines Rashod Bateman $25,154 for verbal abuse of official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday night, Ravens receiver Rashod Bateman <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bobbybaltim0re\/status\/1984065055617642718?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">took issue<\/a> with the failure of an official to throw a penalty after a pass play during which Bateman believed he was held by a Dolphins defender.<\/p>\n<p>It ended up being an expensive complaint from Bateman.<\/p>\n<p>He was flagged during the game. On Saturday, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jaxon-smith-njigba-avoids-fine-for-hot-mic-moment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bateman was fined $25,154<\/a> for verbal abuse of an official.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s a proper outcome, it\u2019s inconsistent. In Week 4, Seahawks receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba said to referee Alex Kemp, \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/5GOATs_\/status\/1971405415830401297?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">That\u2019s some bullshit<\/a>\u201d after a holding call against Smith-Njigba wiped out a Seattle touchdown. Smith-Njigba directed the comment to Kemp, and his microphone relayed it to anyone watching the game.<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Njigba wasn\u2019t flagged or fined.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not to say he should have been. The point is that there should be consistency in these matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Thursday night, Ravens receiver Rashod Bateman took issue with the failure of an official to throw a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-281006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}