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Well here is why this usually happens especially with 4 or less officials on the game.
The down ends, maybe its a long run, the officials are converging on the next spot and eyes are not properly focused to do what we call dead ball officiating. So, player-X does something to incite player-Y who decides to do something about it. Now what happens is that official#1 sees that and out pops the flag on Player-Y.
It takes TWO USC fouls on a player before he is DQ'd, so I'm thinking this DQ was for a striking blow (whether contact is made or not) and he actually was flagged for a personal foul requring an ejection.
Hopefully you now see why in your question #1 only player was flagged.
As far as your question #2, the answer is most likely yes, he is out for the next game or more no matter when during the game the foul was flagged by the official.
However, league and state policy dicatate that, not NF Football rules.
[Edited by Theisey on Sep 20th, 2004 at 09:48 PM]
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