Atlanta Falcons

2009

Penalty Counts

The Atlanta Falcons have played 16 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	22	109	0	8	9	4T	13T
Unnecessary Roughness	1	4.63	3.63	14	10	132	0	1	0	1T	1
Defensive Pass Interference	8	5.94	-2.06	125	7	40	2	5	3	24T	9T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	0	3.28	3.28	0	2	29	1	0	0	1T	22T
Offensive Pass Interference	3	2.44	-0.56	30	6	60	0	0	3	17T	2
Illegal Shift	1	0.63	-0.37	5	0	0	0	1	0	17T	18T
Offensive Holding	13	17.22	4.22	130	21	209	3	8	5	5T	8T
Roughing the Passer	2	2.16	0.16	30	3	44	0	1	1	12T	5T
Personal Foul	6	1.81	-4.19	78	3	39	1	4	2	31T	6T
Illegal Contact	2	2.88	0.88	10	3	15	3	1	1	10T	10T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	2	3.84	1.84	20	2	20	2	2	0	6T	24T
Illegal Use of Hands	0	1.22	1.22	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	22T
Intentional Grounding	1	1.13	0.13	10	2	20	0	1	0	12T	4T
Defensive Offside	4	6.63	2.63	20	13	64	1	3	1	10T	3
Tripping	0	0.63	0.63	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	17T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	1	1.66	0.66	15	4	52	0	0	1	11T	1T
Delay of Game	1	4.22	3.22	5	1	5	0	0	1	2T	28T
Defensive 12 On-field	1	0.94	-0.06	5	1	5	0	0	1	15T	11T
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0.66	0.66	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	17T
Encroachment	0	1.84	1.84	0	2	10	0	0	0	1T	9T
Defensive Holding	4	3.41	-0.59	19	4	20	1	2	2	21T	11T
Illegal Formation	1	1.78	0.78	5	1	5	0	1	0	7T	19T
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0.22	0.22	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Offside on Free Kick	0	0.47	0.47	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	13T
Neutral Zone Infraction	2	1.72	-0.28	10	1	5	0	2	0	14T	16T
Defensive Delay of Game	1	0.38	-0.62	5	0	0	0	1	0	23T	10T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	1	0.69	-0.31	5	0	0	0	0	1	16T	18T
Running Into the Kicker	0	0.38	0.38	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	11T
Illegal Motion	0	0.44	0.44	0	1	5	2	0	0	1T	2T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	2	0.91	-1.09	10	0	0	0	1	1	25T	20T
Illegal Crackback	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Illegal Receiver Pass	1	0.03	-0.97	5	0	0	0	0	1	32	2T
Illegal Substitution	0	0.59	0.59	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	17T
Offensive 12 On-field	1	0.19	-0.81	3	0	0	0	0	1	28T	7T
Chop Block	1	0.53	-0.47	15	0	0	0	0	1	18T	14T
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	0	0.16	0.16	0	1	5	0	0	0	1T	1T
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	1	0.41	-0.59	5	0	0	0	0	1	22T	13T
Offensive Offside	0	0.06	0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Taunting	0	0.25	0.25	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Illegal Blindside Block	0	0.16	0.16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
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	78	99.03	21.03	664	110	893	16	42	36

Penalty Counts - Per Game

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Name	Against	Yards Lost	Benefit	Benefit Yards	Dismissed	Rank	Beneficiary Rank
False Start	1.06	5.31	1.38	6.81	0	7T	13T
Unnecessary Roughness	0.06	0.88	0.63	8.25	0	2T	1
Defensive Pass Interference	0.5	7.81	0.44	2.5	0.13	24T	9T
Face Mask (15 Yards)	0	0	0.13	1.81	0.06	1T	22T
Offensive Pass Interference	0.19	1.88	0.38	3.75	0	20T	2
Illegal Shift	0.06	0.31	0	0	0	23T	18T
Offensive Holding	0.81	8.13	1.31	13.06	0.19	6T	6T
Roughing the Passer	0.13	1.88	0.19	2.75	0	14T	5T
Personal Foul	0.38	4.88	0.19	2.44	0.06	32	6T
Illegal Contact	0.13	0.63	0.19	0.94	0.19	11T	10T
Illegal Block Above the Waist	0.13	1.25	0.13	1.25	0.13	7T	24T
Illegal Use of Hands	0	0	0	0	0	1T	22T
Intentional Grounding	0.06	0.63	0.13	1.25	0	17T	4T
Defensive Offside	0.25	1.25	0.81	4	0.06	11T	3
Tripping	0	0	0	0	0	1T	17T
Roughing the Kicker	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	0.06	0.94	0.25	3.25	0	12T	1T
Delay of Game	0.06	0.31	0.06	0.31	0	2T	28T
Defensive 12 On-field	0.06	0.31	0.06	0.31	0	18T	11T
Horse Collar Tackle	0	0	0	0	0	1T	17T
Encroachment	0	0	0.13	0.63	0	1T	9T
Defensive Holding	0.25	1.19	0.25	1.25	0.06	21T	11T
Illegal Formation	0.06	0.31	0.06	0.31	0	8T	19T
Illegal Touch Pass	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Offside on Free Kick	0	0	0	0	0	1T	13T
Neutral Zone Infraction	0.13	0.63	0.06	0.31	0	19T	16T
Defensive Delay of Game	0.06	0.31	0	0	0	26T	10T
Ineligible Downfield Kick	0.06	0.31	0	0	0	24T	18T
Running Into the Kicker	0	0	0	0	0	1T	11T
Illegal Motion	0	0	0.06	0.31	0.13	1T	2T
Ineligible Downfield Pass	0.13	0.63	0	0	0	27T	20T
Illegal Crackback	0	0	0	0	0	1T	1T
Illegal Receiver Pass	0.06	0.31	0	0	0	32	2T
Illegal Substitution	0	0	0	0	0	1T	17T
Offensive 12 On-field	0.06	0.19	0	0	0	30T	7T
Chop Block	0.06	0.94	0	0	0	23T	14T
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	0	0.06	0.31	0	1T	1T
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	0.06	0.31	0	0	0	24T	13T
Offensive Offside	0	0	0	0	0	1T	3T
Taunting	0	0	0	0	0	1T	8T
Illegal Blindside Block	0	0	0	0	0	1T	5T
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	4.87	41.53	6.9	55.8	1.01