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RENTON, Wash. -- No team in the NFL has faced more punishment from the league for violations of offseason workout parameters than the Seattle Seahawks.Thats not a list the Seahawks want to lead, but they are now bordering on serious penalties if they have another infraction.New rules regarding offseason workouts were put in place with the current collective bargaining agreement that was approved before the 2011 season. During that time, there have been four violations of those offseason rules, according to the NFL.Three of those belong to the Seahawks, including a penalty handed down earlier this week that led to a $200,000 fine for coach Pete Carroll , a $400,000 fine for the franchise and, most importantly, the loss of a fifth-round pick in the 2017 draft. Two players collided and suffered head injuries going after a deflected pass during an organized team activity (OTA) session in June that requires no contact.The incidents that have led to Seattles three violations dont appear egregious. But put them all together and they single out the Seahawks around their competitors.What other people are doing is really important to me right now, Carroll said. Obviously were going too far, so we have to find out how to reel in.Seattle was first penalized in 2012, again in 2014, and then this week. The only other team punished since the new labor agreement took effect was the Baltimore Ravens, who forfeited a week of OTAs for violating offseason workout rules. The Ravens were fined nearly $350,000 and coach John Harbaugh was docked more than $137,000.But the Ravens penalties pale in comparison to what Seattle was hit with. And Carroll seems to understand why they were so severe as a repeat offender.We have to work harder to understand what everybody else is doing and just really staying within the lines that they think is right, and we have to find out, he said. We had the league come in to talk to our players and all that stuff, in the offseason again this year; we just have to do a better job.Seattles 2012 offense was for engaging in live contact during an offseason practice session. The team had to forfeit two OTA practices and an additional offseason workout date.The 2014 offense drew the attention of everyone for who was involved. A scuffle broke out involving All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman and wide receiver Phil Bates. The fight was caught by television cameras at the practice, which was open to the media, and quickly became national news.Seattle had to forfeit two days of its mandatory minicamp the following June as a result of the excessive contact due to the fight. The team brought in personnel from the league in an attempt to learn how to properly run an offseason practice without violating rules.Seattle went so far as to keep players from wearing helmets for much of its on-field time during OTAs for the past two years, trying to limit the impulse for contact. Carroll said the teaching goal was trying to create a simulation of what players would see.We tried to simulate what it looks like so runners see what it looks like; linebackers, DBs they see what it looks like. Everybody is orchestrating, in essence, Carroll said. This is the way we talk to them, (that) youre going to dance together because it isnt real football. So you have to fit together to make those looks, in that were simulating what football looks like.Thats not selling well. Its not coming across well when they look at us. I have to adjust that, but thats been the intent, is to make it look as much like it can look.Clearly, the process Seattle is trying to implement needs work. The club knows another violation could lead to a far heftier penalty.I thought we had it nailed two years ago. Thats why we repeated exactly the same way, but we have to do better. It isnt right yet, Carroll said.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP-NFLIndia Blue 362 for 3 (Pujara 111*, Gambhir 94, Agarwal 57, Karthik 55*, Binny 1-54) v India RedScorecard and ball-by-ball details After India Blue opted to bat first on a dry and cracked Greater Noida surface, Cheteshwar Pujaras fluent unbeaten 111 and Gautam Gambhirs well-compiled 94 studded a dominant batting display over an India Red attack that lacked penetration and consistency.Gambhir, who registered his fourth consecutive fifty-plus score of the tournament, also brought up his fourth consecutive century opening stand with Mayank Agarwal, who scored 57 in a knock laced with fluent cover drives. Pujara, coming off an innings of 166 against India Green, built on that base, scoring at a strike rate of 67.68 against a tiring and deflated bowling attack.India Blue made hay after the sun went down, plundering 151 runs in the third session for the sole loss of Rohit Sharma. Pujara and Dinesh Karthik made the bulk of those runs in an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 120 off 23.3 overs, which thoroughly entertained the sizeable crowd and took India Blue to an imposing 362 for 3 by stumps.If winning the toss was a slice of luck for India Blue, their openers benefited from a few more fortunate moments during their 144-run stand. Left-arm wristspinner Kuldeep Yadav, introduced in the 15th over, produced a chance with his first ball when Gambhir defended a good-length delivery to silly point, who couldnt hold on to a low catch. A little later, Kuldeep beat a charging Agarwal but wicketkeeper Ankush Bains failed to collect the ball cleanly to complete the stumping.It was ultimately Stuart Binny who broke the partnership, shortly after tea, just when the batsmen looked set to bed in for the second session. Bowling cross-seam, Binny got the first ball of his spell to stop on Agarwal from a good length. Agarwal went through with his drive, playing well in front of his body, managing only to chip the ball to short extra-cover.But India Reds respite was brief, as Pujara strode in and ensured continuity in the batting sides dominance and the bowling sides largely fruitless toil. He took nine balls to get off the mark, but when it happened it was worth the wait. Skipping to the pitch of a Kuldeep delivery, he drove it sweetly down the ground for four, to the right of a diving wide mid-off.That was the start of an assured, chanceeless knock marked by steady accumulation, solid defence and some dazzling strokes too.dddddddddddd The loss of Gambhir and Rohit Sharma at the other end did not in the least deter his determined, inexorable progress.Pujara showed a penchant for bringing up milestones with boundaries. A cover drive off Mishra brought up his 10,000th run in first-class cricket. A pull through midwicket, off Mishra once again, gave him his fifty. And an expansive extra-cover drive off Stuart Binny took him to his 33rd first-class century as the day drew to a close. In between, he played a number of gorgeous cuts, pulls and back-foot punches, simply because he could.That he could was down not just to his form and ability, but also to the inability of India Reds bowlers to consistently ask questions of the batsmens technique. Opening bowlers Pradeep Sangwan and Nathu Singh bowled short of a length and could not generate much swing or seam movement in unhelpful conditions. Mishra and Kuldeep extracted sharp turn and gave the batsmen a few awkward moments, but repeatedly released the pressure with loose balls.Mishra, in particular, struggled to achieve much control, frequently losing his line and length. Half-trackers, full tosses and wide deliveries peppered his spells.While remaining wayward in the third session, Mishra managed to slip in a few good deliveries. Shortly after the dinner break, he beat Pujarmoments, but repeatedly released the pressure with loose balls.Mishra, in particular, struggled to achieve much control, frequently losing his line and length. Half-trackers, full tosses and wide deliveries peppered his spells.While remaining wayward in the third session, Mishra managed to slip in a few good deliveries. Shortly after theas outside edge twice with flighted, dipping legbreaks, and induced a skied outside-edge off a Rohit swipe, only for the ball to fall outside the reach of the cover fielder running back.In Mishras next over, Rohit attempted another wild swipe across the line, off a good-length legbreak, and this time the mis-hit went straight up and was comfortably pouched by Shikhar Dhawan at cover.The three deliveries Mishra bowled immediately after taking that wicket neatly encapsulated the day he was having. A half-volley outside off was driven through the covers for four to get Karthik off the mark. A good follow-up delivery induced an inside-edge to short leg but the tough chance was not taken. Then a rank half-tracker was pulled disdainfully through midwicket for another four. The four-ball felt almost inevitable. ' ' '