New England Patriots

2009

Penalty Counts

The New England Patriots have played 17 games. The Rank columns refer to overall league rank for that type of penalty. Offsetting and Declined penalties are listed in the "Dismissed" column, but are otherwise ignored.

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Name	Against	League Avg	League Avg-Against	Yards Lost	Benefit	Benefit Yards	Dismissed	Home	Away	Rank	Beneficiary Rank
False Start	17	21.41	4.41	85	15	72	0	10	7	4T	28
Unnecessary Roughness	4	4.63	0.63	49	2	30	0	1	3	13T	28T
Defensive Pass Interference	5	5.94	0.94	127	6	133	1	1	4	11T	14T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	4	3.28	-0.72	56	1	15	0	2	2	21T	24T
Offensive Pass Interference	5	2.44	-2.56	51	4	40	1	3	2	30T	5T
Illegal Shift	1	0.63	-0.37	5	1	5	0	0	1	17T	4T
Offensive Holding	16	17.22	1.22	156	9	88	0	4	12	17T	31T
Roughing the Passer	4	2.16	-1.84	60	6	90	0	3	1	27T	2
Personal Foul	1	1.81	0.81	15	2	30	0	0	1	6T	9T
Illegal Contact	0	2.88	2.88	0	5	25	0	0	0	1T	4T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	2	3.84	1.84	20	1	10	0	1	1	6T	29T
Illegal Use of Hands	0	1.22	1.22	0	3	15	2	0	0	1T	4
Intentional Grounding	0	1.13	1.13	0	1	10	1	0	0	1T	9T
Defensive Offside	2	6.63	4.63	10	1	5	1	0	2	4T	31T
Tripping	1	0.63	-0.37	10	0	0	1	1	0	19T	17T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0.06	0.06	0	1	15	0	0	0	1T	1T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	2	1.66	-0.34	27	1	15	0	1	1	17T	16T
Delay of Game	8	4.22	-3.78	40	5	25	0	4	4	28T	10T
Defensive 12 On-field	0	0.94	0.94	0	3	16	1	0	0	1T	2T
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0.66	0.66	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	17T
Encroachment	3	1.84	-1.16	11	5	25	2	3	0	23T	1T
Defensive Holding	1	3.41	2.41	5	8	37	3	1	0	2T	1
Illegal Formation	2	1.78	-0.22	10	3	15	1	1	1	14T	3T
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0.22	0.22	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Offside on Free Kick	1	0.47	-0.53	5	1	5	0	1	0	20T	4T
Neutral Zone Infraction	1	1.72	0.72	5	2	10	0	1	0	9T	8T
Defensive Delay of Game	0	0.38	0.38	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	10T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0	0.69	0.69	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	6T
Running Into the Kicker	0	0.38	0.38	0	1	5	1	0	0	1T	3T
Illegal Motion	3	0.44	-2.56	16	1	5	0	2	1	32	2T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	1	0.91	-0.09	5	0	0	0	0	1	16T	20T
Illegal Crackback	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Illegal Receiver Pass	0	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Illegal Substitution	0	0.59	0.59	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	17T
Offensive 12 On-field	0	0.19	0.19	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Chop Block	0	0.53	0.53	0	2	24	0	0	0	1T	1T
Clipping	0	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Fair Catch Interference	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Player Out of Bounds on Punt	1	0.16	-0.84	5	0	0	0	1	0	28T	6T
Illegal Forward Pass	0	0.34	0.34	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	12T
Low Block	0	0.22	0.22	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Interference with Opportunity to Catch	0	0.13	0.13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Invalid Fair Catch Signal	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Disqualification	0	0.09	0.09	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Illegal Touch Kick	0	0.41	0.41	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	2T
Offensive Offside	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Taunting	1	0.25	-0.75	11	0	0	0	0	1	25T	8T
Illegal Blindside Block	0	0.16	0.16	0	2	20	1	0	0	1T	1
Illegal Kick	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Short Free Kick	0	0.03	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Kickoff Out of Bounds	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Totals	86	99.03	13.03	784	94	795	16	41	45

Penalty Counts - Per Game

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Name	Against	Yards Lost	Benefit	Benefit Yards	Dismissed	Rank	Beneficiary Rank
False Start	1	5	0.88	4.24	0	4T	28
Unnecessary Roughness	0.24	2.88	0.12	1.76	0	13	29
Defensive Pass Interference	0.29	7.47	0.35	7.82	0.06	11T	17
Face Mask (15 Yards)	0.24	3.29	0.06	0.88	0	24T	28
Offensive Pass Interference	0.29	3	0.24	2.35	0.06	30	6T
Illegal Shift	0.06	0.29	0.06	0.29	0	21T	16
Offensive Holding	0.94	9.18	0.53	5.18	0	17	32
Roughing the Passer	0.24	3.53	0.35	5.29	0	28	2
Personal Foul	0.06	0.88	0.12	1.76	0	8	13T
Illegal Contact	0	0	0.29	1.47	0	1T	6
Illegal Block Above the Waist	0.12	1.18	0.06	0.59	0	6	31
Illegal Use of Hands	0	0	0.18	0.88	0.12	1T	4
Intentional Grounding	0	0	0.06	0.59	0.06	1T	17T
Defensive Offside	0.12	0.59	0.06	0.29	0.06	4	31T
Tripping	0.06	0.59	0	0	0.06	22T	17T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0	0.06	0.88	0	1T	2
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	0.12	1.59	0.06	0.88	0	18T	24T
Delay of Game	0.47	2.35	0.29	1.47	0	29T	14T
Defensive 12 On-field	0	0	0.18	0.94	0.06	1T	2
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0	0	0	0	1T	17T
Encroachment	0.18	0.65	0.29	1.47	0.12	25	1
Defensive Holding	0.06	0.29	0.47	2.18	0.18	3T	1
Illegal Formation	0.12	0.59	0.18	0.88	0.06	16T	6
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Offside on Free Kick	0.06	0.29	0.06	0.29	0	23T	8T
Neutral Zone Infraction	0.06	0.29	0.12	0.59	0	10T	11T
Defensive Delay of Game	0	0	0	0	0	1T	10T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0	0	0.06	0.29	0	1T	13T
Running Into the Kicker	0	0	0.06	0.29	0.06	1T	7T
Illegal Motion	0.18	0.94	0.06	0.29	0	32	7T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0.06	0.29	0	0	0	18T	20T
Illegal Crackback	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Illegal Receiver Pass	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Illegal Substitution	0	0	0	0	0	1T	17T
Offensive 12 On-field	0	0	0	0	0	1T	7T
Chop Block	0	0	0.12	1.41	0	1T	2T
Clipping	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Fair Catch Interference	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Player Out of Bounds on Punt	0.06	0.29	0	0	0	28T	6T
Illegal Forward Pass	0	0	0	0	0	1T	12T
Low Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Interference with Opportunity to Catch	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
Invalid Fair Catch Signal	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Disqualification	0	0	0	0	0	1T	4T
Illegal Touch Kick	0	0	0.06	0.29	0	1T	9T
Offensive Offside	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Taunting	0.06	0.65	0	0	0	26T	8T
Illegal Blindside Block	0	0	0.12	1.18	0.06	1T	1
Illegal Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Short Free Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	2T
Kickoff Out of Bounds	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Totals	5.09	46.1	5.55	46.72	0.96