{"id":473811,"date":"2023-12-22T21:53:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T01:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473811"},"modified":"2023-12-22T21:53:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T01:53:47","slug":"atlanta-smith-fined-for-week-7-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/atlanta-smith-fined-for-week-7-injury-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta, Smith fined for Week 7 injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The league has fined the Atlanta Falcons 75,000 dollars and manager Arthur Smith 25,000 dollars for handling the franchise\u2019s injury report before its Week 7 clash vs. the Bucs in October.<\/p>\n<p>NFL began probing the organization after Bijan Robinson was not listed on the injury report but barely appeared in the Falcons\u2019 16-13 victory against Tampa Bay. He shared with the media after the clash that he had an illness and headaches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddd8\ud835\udde3\ud835\udde2\ud835\udde5\ud835\udde7: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Falcons?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Falcons<\/a> HC Arthur Smith was fined $75,000 for failing to put Bijan Robinson on the injury report with an illness back in week 7.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Arthur Smith was also fined $25,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/crNPxUs5o6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/crNPxUs5o6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JPAFootball (@jasrifootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasrifootball\/status\/1738253309993955462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Smith admitted today that &#8220;it wasn&#8217;t some contentious battle&#8221; with the NFL and that each side understood the other&#8217;s point of view of the episode back in October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s an inquiry, and in most cases, you must answer with a letter. It wasn&#8217;t like a court case, it wasn&#8217;t a lot of time spent,&#8221; Arthur shared. &#8220;Here is how we thought of it. Here was our intent. Nothing was done to try to make a false report, and I understood why they fined us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The league has fined the Atlanta Falcons 75,000 dollars and manager Arthur Smith 25,000 dollars for handling the franchise\u2019s injury report before its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":473812,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22425,17488,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[22426,18585,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The Falcons and the coach were fined for handling the October injury report.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473823,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473811\/revisions\/473823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473811"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473811"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}