Is $10K Fine For Quinn's Hit Enough?
by Bruce Raffel on Nov 19, 2009 8:41 AM EST
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PrintReportedly, the "undisclosed" amount of the fine on Brady Quinn for his cheap and illegal hit that has knocked out Terrell Suggs for at least the next two games (and maybe more) is $10,000. I'm not too sure why the amount of the fine was not disclosed, as it was public when Ray Lewis was fined $25,000 for the hit on Chad OchoCinco. Speaking of that comparison, why was Ray fined $25K for a hit that the player popped right back up on while Brady's was only $10K for a hit that injured a player's knees? Do they extend the quarterback's protection to his wallet as well?
What do you all think of this?
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Dwan Edwards was also fined in the Browns game, $5,000 for his hit on Josh Cribbs that many thought was retaliation for Suggs’ injury. I thought the hit was legal, so did the refs, but I guess the league wanted to send a message. If that’s the case, then send a stronger message to Quinn, at least as strong as the one you sent to Ray!
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A forearm at a players head is never legal.
And when it’s on the last play of the game it’s apparent that it is retrobution.
Look at the video,
Cribbs ran right into his path. Dwan’s a d-lineman, not so good at getting out of the way.
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by Bruce Raffel on Nov 21, 2009 12:18 PM EST up reply actions
$5K is the normal "too hard hit" fine
so Brady got double as a message. Then tell me about Ray’s $25K fine for hitting 85?
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by Bruce Raffel on Nov 22, 2009 8:52 AM EST up reply actions
$10,000
Is the same amount of the fine that Ochocinco got for wearing the wrong color chinstrap.
Does not equate to knocking our most expensive player out for 2-3 weeks.
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by the fix is in on Nov 19, 2009 11:44 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
I had to give this a rec...
The NFL’s fine system sucks. And it’s things just like this that point out the clear lack of a gameplan when it comes to fining anyone for anything. It’s a joke.
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by NYSteelersFan4 on Nov 19, 2009 3:28 PM EST up reply actions
$250,000 for the 86 year old owner flipping the double bird. Funny thing about that was the Commissioner was his guest at the game that day..but not present when the birds took flight. Old news but incase you missed it. Too funny.
The “hit” on Cribbs was just a simple push. I guess Cribbs was looking for a free kick or penalty minutes.
If you watch the replay
Edwards was booking to make a play and Cribbs slowed down as soon as he gave up the ball and stayed right in Edwards lane, so the big guy had no other choice than to run over him. You can tell by the replay that it was nothing close to intentional which was exactly what Brady’s low blow was. $5000 for Edwards and only double for Brady while Ray got hit w/ a $25K one? Fair, I think not!
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by Bruce Raffel on Nov 19, 2009 6:22 PM EST up reply actions
This was emailed to me
Before Terrell Suggs took a shot from Brady Quinn Monday, Jonathan Vilma experienced his own low blow from Mark Sanchez in Week 4. He was upset about Quinn’s shot on Suggs and sounded off about it on his PlayMaker Mobile page last night. I thought you might be interested.
Brady Quinn’s cheap shot on Terrell Suggs
by jonathanvilma 18. November 2009 15:58 What bothers me about this play is, for one, Brady Quinn is not a rookie—he’s a third year guy. Two, he knows right and wrong, he knows fair and foul play. And three, as much emphasis as there is put on protecting quarterbacks, quarterbacks need to understand they need to do the same thing. There is a reason defensive players can’t go low on quarterbacks. Look at Tom Brady. Look what happened to him. So why would you reciprocate and do the same thing if you’re the QB? That’s what really bothers me.
It’s not like Mark Sanchez where it was his fourth game starting and he was a little bewildered and he was just out there. Brady Quinn has been around and he understands right from wrong. He understands fair and foul play. That bothers me. Yeah, Brady Quinn gets fined but that fine isn’t going to help the Ravens, it’s not gonna help Terrell Suggs get back any quicker, and now they’ve got to play Peyton Manning this weekend.
Not having Suggs impacts them in so many different ways. Now do they not only miss one of their best pass rushers but they miss one of their best players on defense, period. The guy can stop the run and the pass and you need that against a guy like Peyton Manning, where everyone says “don’t blitz Peyton,” but you need someone to rush the passer and that was their guy. That’s what’s especially frustrating. To see that happen, the way it happened, being on the defensive side it really bothers. We have to be really conscious about where and how and how hard we hit a quarterback, and now QBs are just going after defensive players because they’re afraid of being blocked, they’re afraid of being hit, and that’s just not right.
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