Mike Evans' defense misses the mark, JarrettBell writes.
As Brady alluded to, the Bucs left New Orleans hoping the ejections of Evans and Lattimore would largely settle the matter. When I asked Evans on Sunday whether he was worried he would get suspended, he didn’t seem to sweat the possibility.
Evans contended that since he was ejected on Sunday, he didn’t expect a suspension on top of that. He pointed out that during the same week in 2017 when he hit Lattimore from behind to draw the suspension, Jalen Ramsey and AJ Green were ejected from a game in Jacksonville for fighting. Ramsey and Green played the following week.Unless Thrash reverses the suspension levied by Jon Runyan, the NFL’s enforcement officer, Evans' defense misses the mark.
Then there’s Arians, whose presence on the sideline generated many questions since Sunday. There’s no policy that prohibits the former coach from being in the bench area, as each team receives a hefty allotment of sideline passes. Licht also watched the game from the Bucs' bench. The league didn’t see the chirping from Arians on Sunday rising to the level of discipline, but it has clearly taken note by issuing the warning. While the league won’t mandate who is allowed in the team’s bench area – remember, team owners such as Jerry Jones, Michael Bidwill and Arthur Blank have often been seen in the bench area at certain points of games – it’s unclear whether the Bucs will instruct Arians to watch games from upstairs.
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