The star of Philadelphia Eagles, Jalen Carter, will not lack future matches for having spit on the quarter-Arrière of Dallas Cowboys, Dak Prescott.
The NFL announced Tuesday that since Carter had been ejected from the opening of last week’s season without participating in a single game, the League would consider that the second year defensive platform had already served a suspension of a match.
This is an important distinction of the NFL, which establishes a precedent and sends a message to the players who spit on an opponent will result in a suspension of a match.
Carter will lose his match check for week 1 worth $ 57,222, according to Adam Schefter d’Espn, but will be available to play in the Revenge match of the Super 2 of the week 2 of the Eagles against the Chiefs of Kansas City. The NFL players’ association also informed the League that Carter has given up its right to call on punishment.
The agent of the Eagles and Carter Drew Rosenhaus also worked on an agreement according to which the team would not use the suspension to cancel the guarantees of the Carter contract or request the confiscation of the payment of the signature premium.
After the start of the opening on Thursday, there was a delay in injury for the back of the Eagles Ben Vansumeren, who stayed on the ground for several minutes. Meanwhile, Carter and Prescott found themselves face to face, and Carter spat on Prescott while the two were starting to separate.
Carter apologized after the opening victory for the Philadelphia season, saying it was “an error that happened on my side, and that will not happen again”. The offense occurred a few moments after the second banner of the Franchise Super Bowl was raised.
While the NFL considered an appropriate punishment for Carter, many around the league recalled a message delivered earlier this year during the League meetings by the executive vice-president of NFL football operations, Troy Vincent, who declared to the head coaches, directors and leaders that the sporting spirit posed one of the greatest threats to the League.
During this meeting, Vincent warned the coaches, the GMs and the leaders that there would be “zero tolerance for the acts which lower the game” and that the league would become hard for the offenders, said a source to Schefter.
The Eagles could impose their own discipline in Carter, but coach Nick Sirianni said on Monday that any action would be kept internally.
“I will keep everything I do with him private, it doesn’t matter if you see him on Sunday or not,” said Sirianni. “Everything, each conversation, whether it is a personal conversation, a disciplinary thing, all these things will always be managed in private. I just think it’s the way to do team business and when you do things with a football team.”
Tim McManus d’Espn and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
