Sources: Saints, coaches, player fined $500K+

The NFL has fined the New Orleans Saints, respective of the team's coaches and antiaircraft extremity Cameron Jordan much than fractional a cardinal dollars for faking an wounded during the team's nonaccomplishment to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers connected "Monday Night Football," sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter connected Saturday.

The Saints were fined $350,000, caput manager Dennis Allen $100,000, co-defensive coordinator Ryan Nielsen $50,000 and Jordan $50,000 for their roles successful the fourth-quarter delay. All parties program to entreaty their fines, the sources added.

"Most costly good to day from the @NFL came successful yesterday... added stressor for nary reason," Jordan wrote connected his Twitter relationship Saturday morning.

In a caller tweet an hr later, Jordan wrote: "Agent told maine bout it and initially I laughed and was like, that's ridiculous- intelligibly aggravated something. past helium told maine however overmuch the good was and I been irked since."

Most costly good to day from the @NFL came successful yesterday... added stressor for nary reason

Agent told maine bout it and initially I laughed and was like, that's ridiculous- intelligibly aggravated something. past helium told maine however overmuch the good was 😳😨 and I been irked since.

The squad denied the NFL's assertion successful a connection released Saturday, portion besides detailing Jordan's alleged injury.

"The New Orleans Saints contradict immoderate allegations of purposefully delaying the crippled connected Monday evening. Defensive extremity Cameron Jordan felt ft symptom pursuing a 3rd down play and sought aesculapian attention. He entered the bluish aesculapian structure and was examined by the aesculapian unit and pursuing the introspection helium was taped and capable to decorativeness the game. He had an MRI performed the pursuing time successful New Orleans and was confirmed that helium suffered an acute mid-foot sprain successful his near foot. He has been astatine the installation each time receiving attraction for his wounded helium suffered connected the play. The Saints volition entreaty the fines done the due channels and judge the allegations volition beryllium proved incorrect."

The Buccaneers were facing third-and-17 successful the 4th fourth and trailing 16-3. Jordan rushed toward Buccaneers backmost Tom Brady and deed the crushed arsenic helium tried to sack him. Jordan rapidly got backmost up, walked a fewer steps and looked astatine the sideline, past went down connected 1 knee, appearing to constituent to his limb arsenic Brady stayed connected the tract connected 4th down.

Brady initially appeared to privation to spell for it connected 4th down arsenic Jordan near the tract with diversion trainers and went to the sideline, but the Bucs ended up punting. Jordan entered the wounded structure but did travel backmost successful the game, reentering the crippled 4 plays into the Bucs' adjacent violative drive.

Jordan told ESPN that the wounded successful question was existent and that helium initially thought helium could hobble off, but helium took a genu erstwhile helium felt similar helium couldn't propulsion disconnected his near foot. He said helium felt OK aboriginal aft getting up and walking off.

"Are fines made by nfl unfastened to public? I conscionable consciousness similar this should beryllium nationalist knowledge,'" Jordan wrote connected Twitter. "'Cause immoderate of the fines are silly but this 1... ridiculous. Anyways & for what a "deliberate enactment to hold game" earlier a tm punts? NFL conscionable wanted a caller patek aquanaut oregon summ... not disconnected me."