{"id":1011640,"date":"2026-09-26T22:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T22:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1011640\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T22:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T22:57:18","slug":"nfl-announces-punishment-for-packers-after-jets-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1011640\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Announces Punishment for Packers After Jets Matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/miami-dolphins-v-green-bay-packers-green-bay-wisconsin-november-28-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Miami Dolphins v Green Bay Packers\"   decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN &#8211; NOVEMBER 28: Ty&#8217;Ron Hopper #59 of the Green Bay Packers reacts during the second half of the game against the Miami Dolphins at Lambeau Field on November 28, 2024 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Photo by John Fisher\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Two members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/green-bay-packers\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Green Bay Packers<\/a>\u2018 roster will have to pay up after the league fined them for their actions during the team\u2019s Week 2 overtime road win against the <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/new-york-jets\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Jets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NFL<\/a> fined linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/nfl\/player\/tyron-hopper\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ty\u2019Ron Hopper<\/a> a total of $8,325 and defensive tackle <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/nfl\/player\/chris-mcclellan\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris McClellan<\/a> a total of $7,167, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/operations.nfl.com\/rules-officiating\/enforcement\/accountability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external nofollow\">league\u2019s\u00a0official website<\/a>. Both fines were for unnecessary roughness.<\/p>\n<p>Green Bay got out of New York with a three-point win in overtime. But the team fell three touchdowns shy of a second consecutive victory by losing to the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" title=\"Atlanta Falcons\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/atlanta-falcons\/\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"490709\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> on Thursday Night Football.<\/p>\n<p>Packers Reeling After Blowout Loss to Falcons on Thursday Night Football<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-inline wp-image-6395566\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2296278809_578ed4.jpg\" alt=\"Matt LaFleur Green Bay Packers\" width=\"782\" height=\"440\"  \/>GettyHead coach Matt LaFleur of the Green Bay Packers.\n<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Packers have much bigger problems after a blowout home loss to the Falcons on Thursday night, which further exposed a broken and inept offensive line and also led to an unfamiliar chorus of boos raining down on the team from the Green Bay faithful at Lambeau Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Articles \/ Paragraph Links\">\u201cWell, that was a humbling night,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByRyanWood\/status\/2103327997407211745\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByRyanWood\/status\/2103327997407211745\">head coach Matt LaFleur said<\/a>, per Ryan Wood of USA Today. \u201cCertainly, I don\u2019t think anybody is pleased about this. We\u2019ve got a couple extra days here, and everybody has to take a long, hard look at ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Articles \/ Paragraph Links\">LaFleur also discussed the specific offensive woes the team has faced, namely in the run game where Green Bay put up just 17 yards on only nine carries against Atlanta. The Packers have rushed for fewer than 50 yards per game through the first three weeks of the season and have yet to score a TD on the ground.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Articles \/ Paragraph Links\">\u201cI think we have to continue to work with these guys and try to figure out what we do well,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iiaTRuPgNbM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iiaTRuPgNbM\">LaFleur added<\/a>. \u201cBecause right now, I don\u2019t know what we\u2019re doing well on offensively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Packers Add Another Guard to Bolster Banged Up Offensive Line<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-inline wp-image-5815429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Aaron-Banks-e1772993454940.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron Banks\" width=\"782\" height=\"440\"\/>GettyOffensive guard <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/nfl\/player\/aaron-banks\/\" title=\"Aaron Banks\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"490759\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Banks<\/a> of the Green Bay Packers has been hurt for most of the regular season.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Packers have 10 days before they travel to Florida for a Week 4 contest against the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/\" title=\"Tampa Bay Buccaneers\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"490756\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Green Bay added offensive guard <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/nfl\/player\/cordell-volson\/\" title=\"Cordell Volson\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"490757\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cordell Volson<\/a> to the practice squad ahead of the game against the Jets last weekend. The team followed up that move on Saturday by signing <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/nfl\/player\/laken-tomlinson\/\" title=\"Laken Tomlinson\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"490758\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laken Tomlinson<\/a> off the Dallas Cowboys\u2019 practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>Right tackle <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/nfl\/player\/zach-tom\/\" title=\"Zach Bako-Bewele\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"490755\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Bako-Bewele<\/a>, formerly Zach Tom, is out for the season after suffering a torn patellar tendon against the Jets. Starting offensive guard Aaron Banks missed Week 1 with knee tendonitis and left the contest in New York with a toe injury that also kept him sidelined for Week 3.<\/p>\n<p>The unit allowed 15 quick pressures of quarterback <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/nfl\/player\/jordan-love\/\" title=\"Jordan Love\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"490760\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Love<\/a> against the Falcons, which rendered the already one-dimensional pass attack that much more difficult to execute alongside a run game that was all but non-existent.<\/p>\n<p>Green Bay\u2019s defense also struggled mightily on Thursday, surrendering 498 total yards to a Falcons offense that failed to even reach the red zone across its first two games of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/author\/maxdible1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Dible<\/a> covers the NFL, NBA and MLB for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns. He covered local and statewide news as a reporter for West Hawaii Today and served as news director for BigIslandNow.com and Pacific Media Group&#8217;s family of Big Island radio stations before joining Heavy.  <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/author\/maxdible1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More about Max Dible<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN &#8211; NOVEMBER 28: Ty&#8217;Ron Hopper #59 of the Green Bay Packers reacts during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1011641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":["post-1011640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-green-bay-packers","tag-football","tag-green-bay","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-greenbay","tag-greenbaypackers","tag-nfl","tag-packers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117339819227602480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}