Ravens Marcus Peters Fined $12,500 For Spitting At Browns Jarvis Landry
Both Baltimore Ravens corner Marcus Peters and head coach John Harbaugh denied that Peters spit on Cleveland Browns wide receiver Jarvis Landry on Monday Night Football, but the NFL has determined that he did and are fining him $12,500 for it.
Landry called Peters a coward for spitting on him when he wasn't looking as he wasn't unaware of the incident until it was brought to his attention after the game and he went back to see it on tape.
Peters responded, releasing the following statement.
“I didn’t spit at Jarvis. Where I come from, when you have an issue with someone, you deal with it face-to-face, man-to-man. Anyone who believes that I intentionally spit at him does not know me – plain and simple.”
The NFL is taking the position that they don't know Peters, regardless of where he comes from, fining the corner for his conduct. Or perhaps that he has terrible aim and his spittle was meant for someone else.
Peters might want to enlist the help of former Major League Baseball player Keith Hernandez to explain away the spitting incident.
This is no different than the year before when Odell Beckham and Marlon Humphrey had a physical altercation and video showed Humphrey choking Beckham. Humphrey denied it as did the Ravens team website curiously, despite video evidence of the incident.
The Ravens won the game and the incident will likely be forgotten quickly as was the incident with Humphrey in 2019, but it's just more fuel to the fire in a growing rivalry between the two teams that has been reignited with the selections of Baker Mayfield and Lamar Jackson in the 2018 NFL Draft.
