The NFL has levied $700,000 in fines after Jon Gruden and Sean Payton failed to wear masks properly during Monday’s game between the Las Vegas Raiders and New Orleans Saints, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reports.
Each head coach will be docked $100,000, while their respective teams will be fined $250,000 each.
Both coaches were seen repeatedly violating the league’s COVID-19 policy mandating that coaches wear a face covering on the sideline during games. Gruden’s mask was regularly hanging around his chin, while Payton declined to wear one at all for much of the game.
Second round of hefty mask fines News broke during Monday’s game that the NFL had handed out more than $1 million in fines to three coaches and teams for mask violations on Sunday. Denver Broncos coach Vic Fangio, Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll and San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan and their teams were all fined on Monday. Apparently, nobody passed that information to Gruden and Payton during the game.
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