Frustrations boiled over for the Raiders in the fourth quarter in their loss to the Chargers.
The Chargers scored their final touchdown of the game to go up 22-10 over the Raiders. They attempted a two-point conversion and failed. In the process, a fight broke out.
Several Raiders and Chargers players were involved, but it was Jack Jones and Joshua Palmer who threw punches and thus both players were ejected.
Whenever players are ejected, the league reviews it to see if the incident rises to the level of a suspension. And in this case they have decided it doesn’t.
The NFL is not expected to suspend any of the players involved in Sunday's fight near the end of the #Chargers–#Raiders game, per me and @RapSheet.
Jack Jones and Joshua Palmer were ejected, and there could be fines as well. But no suspensions. pic.twitter.com/gTbcncUkC5
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) September 9, 2024
You can bet fines are incoming. But that’s a much smaller issue than missing a game and a game check as a result.
Head coach Antonio Pierce called the incident “disappointing.”
“I get it, we’re protecting our teammate,” said Pierce. “But we never want to put ourselves in a position where it’s possibly ejection, fines, suspension down the road. We don’t want to be that team. The history of the Raiders has always been that team. We don’t want to have that. Our guys got to be careful. Again, I love protecting one another and going to battle for one another, but if you throw punches or anything, you’re in the wrong sport.”
