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NFL working hard to reduce taunting

The NFL’s crackdown on unsportsmanlike penalties is working the way the league intended.

Officials threw 11 flags for taunting in the first two weeks of this season — the same number called in the entire 2020 season for the same foul — but only three over the next three weeks.

The league has no plans to tell officials to back off.

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