The NFL might discipline Detroit center Dominic Raiola, but the Lions won’t.
Raiola, who admitted after Sunday’s loss to the Patriots that he took a cheap shot at Zach Moore’s knees as payback for what he perceived as the Patriots running up the score, is under review for potential discipline from the league office. But Lions coach Jim Caldwell said today that the team will not discipline Raiola.
“He and I talked,” Caldwell said today. “We addressed the issue. He knows how we like to do things here. That’s the end of the story.”
The way they’ve played the last couple of weeks, the Lions look like a team in need of a wake-up call, and the Lions cutting Raiola would be a strong statement to the rest of the team about how they like to do things. But that’s not going to happen. The Lions may say they don’t condone Raiola’s actions, but they’re going to leave it to the league to do something about it.
