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  1. poppycock
  2. An inadvertant tap on the noggin' = big fine. Intentional kick to the sack = zero.

    OK, I get it now......NOT...
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  3. Why doesn't the NFL just admit that they have no clue what they are doing. Or better yet, just tell the all players that they have to forfeit a percentage of their pay for any potential illegal hits. There is obviously no common sense in the Commisioners office. If that is a penalty, and a fine, that should be called about ten or twenty times a game. Basically it is ANY contact to the head is a penalty, because there is no way that was malicious, or launching, or any of the things that they talk about.
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  4. I think they need to start fining players when they headbutt their own team mates after scoring a touchdown. Some of those shots are way more forceful than many of the inadvertent glancing blows they get on QBs that are fined.
  5. I find it very hard to believe Jones was fined for that play. Old66 is right - players congratulating a teammate for a touchdown deliver harder blows to the head.
  6. The fines in the NFL for this stuff have become nutty. Jones was trying to block the pass and when he missed and came down his hand touched Stafford's helmet. This was a bad call to call it roughing the passer much less to fine him for it. But at least he actually made contact with Stafford's helmet. Perry's fine was even worse because he never actually initiated contact with Luck's helmet. Perry hit Luck in the chest and then Luck's neck flexed from the blow and his facemask hit the top of Perry's helmet.
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    • I have seen some calls in which a lineman was penalized for a blow to the head when the QB ducked at the last second and got his helmet down to where his chest was. We may seen NBA type flopping soon, instead of throwing an incomplete pass or taking a sack just make sure your helmet gets in the way of someones hand for an easy 15 yards.
    • Exactly. Ed Reed was initially suspended for that hit in the Steelers game which I agree was a bad play on his part because he led with his helmet. But the reason he was suspended for a game was because he was supposedly a repeat offender due to his being fined for a hit on a receiver in a previous game. I cant remember who they were playing but I remember on that play that Reed lowered his shoulders to hit the receiver in the midsection but the receiver crouched down also and they went helmet to helmet. Maybe the receivers should get fined when they duck.
  7. The NFL is going in a bad direction. I'm not saying player protection is not important, but if the game keeps changing to the extent where you simply can't touch a QB, 100 point scores may become commonplace.
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  8. This is half of the fine for laying out Cutler...on a play where the ball was long gone, and a full facial blast. I just don't understand. Really. Can someone explain what the logic is here?
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    • I know Cutler got a concussion from it but I didnt think that was a dirty play or anything. First, it wasnt a late hit, he got his a fraction of a second after he threw the ball. Second, I dont thing it was a helmet to helmet hit, at least I've not seen any film that showed that. I looked like their heads were lined up against each others shoulders. Third, Cutler was scrambling and was just a few inches from his whole body being over the line of scrimmage. In fact, at first is was offsetting penalties with Cutler drawing a flag for illegal forward pass, until they did a review and found that the very back of his foot was not yet over the line of scrimmage. The hit was very violent because both players were running full out in the opposite direction. It was just plain stupidity on Cutlers part. Maybe next time he'll slide or at least try to cut or duck.
  9. Jonesys penalty and fine is as ridiculous as Taylor's fine last week...we all agree that these rules were.implemented for good cause but the way the Ref crews call games is so.scatter brained and inconsistent that none of this makes sense any more...Goodell is turning this sport into a confusing willy nilly flag fest that is so varied none of these Refs even have the faintest idea of what is what anymore...this season has been the shoddiest bunch of missed calls, non calls and questionable calls I have ever seen, and we have almost half a regular season Plus the playoffs to get your eyes and just watch the TV feed, it shows the plays from way better angles than any of that Under The Hood crap does, what a waste of time and unreliable method this has all turned into...but waaay more ad time for the networks, funny that...
  10. I am wondering if all the insane fines is a little bit of politics being played out between the league and the players union due to all the lawsuits and threats to sue regarding injuries. The people who run the league cannot be so stupid as to actually think that all these fines are actually legit, especially when they have the film to review (unlike the refs who have to throw the flag or not based upon what they saw one time at full speed). Sort of the league telling the players that if they want to continue to pursuit fining the league over head injuries the league is going to fine every player for every play that could eventually result in a lawsuit for head injury.


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