Comments on: NFL fines Cardinals’ Ricky Lumpkin $21,000 for hit on Matt Leinart

By: californiadon

californiadon — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:28:47 +0000

It does make you wonder… did someone in the Cardinals locker room offer up a “bounty” to make sure Matt Leinart did not “light”up his ex-team the Cardinals?

By: fringetastic

fringetastic — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:50:34 +0000

Is there any reason to not make fines a percentage of their cap number?

By: terumiarai

terumiarai — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:43:46 +0000

Fine! It’s not a tax, it’s a fine. Pay the fine if you commit the crime; pay the tax later.

By: spkstruth2power

spkstruth2power — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:18:01 +0000

lumpkin will be playin for the saints before the week is out

By: randallflagg52

randallflagg52 — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:19:39 +0000

I’m personally tired of seeing every player who get’s flagged get fined later. What happened when they only fined the worst stuff, like Suh suplexing Delhomme or any of that mongoloid James Harrison’s hits?

By: dubblelznhell

dubblelznhell — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:18:31 +0000

I’d say the difference between 390 000 and 369 000 is negligible.

By: thatyankeedude

thatyankeedude — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:15:15 +0000

I don’t care if the guy just started to beat the crap out of the QB 21000 is a TON of money to be fined. Thats an excessive amount of money lost to a stupid game!

By: delusionalcardsfan

delusionalcardsfan — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:58:58 +0000

Billmead; keep the conservative/liberal crap in your man pleaser and out of PFT. I get enough from CNN! As for the fine, I’m out in Phoenix taking up a collection to help pay it! I believe that’ve fine money is donated to various NFL charities and watching Matt get lit up was well worth it. Everyone wins!

By: billmead1976

billmead1976 — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:58:43 +0000

All you dang liberals are destroying my country. A fine is a fine. Can I have a discount on my parking ticket because Bill Gates makes a few billion more than me?

By: oilman989

oilman989 — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:56:05 +0000

One thing wrong with our correspondent’s theory: if fringe players making the league minimum are only fined an amount proportionate to their salary, what’s to say they don’t unload on any player – at any time – and risk the “reduced” fine? Moreover, coaches could (would) make situational substitutions with lower salaried “hit men,” if you will, and pay their fines if/when an illegal hit occurs.

As for Leinart: I lived in AZ during his so-called “franchise QB” era; he’s more interested in being an NFL QB than playing quarterback in the NFL. With Pete Carroll in Seattle, the Seahawks’ job was his too lose two years ago, but Leinart was more content holding a clipboard in Houston. He’s soft, injury prone, and a flat-out loser.

By: hendeeze

hendeeze — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:43:19 +0000

He should donate it to the “find a oline/qb fund”

By: elitekane

elitekane — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 12:44:49 +0000

What about the guy who took that vicious hit? What if he got seriously hurt.

If he doesn’t wanna get fined, then maybe he shouldn’t be head hunting. That was a dirty play and he deserves it.

By: tubaplayingprof

tubaplayingprof — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 12:26:36 +0000

The NFL should fine Leinart for his hit on the Cards.

By: blackbug99

blackbug99 — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:06:09 +0000

Yeah, he only makes $390K a yr! Wow, he’s a step away from welfare!! So, don’t make the dumbass hit, dumbass! Installments are fine w/me. But, if anything I’d scale the fines up for the mega-stars. Take away some bling and stomping on heads, for instance, might get some forethought.

By: gmsalpha

gmsalpha — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 11:01:13 +0000

Then fine players a percentage of their salary like taxes, complete with tiers. The more you make, the more you pay, unless you make more money than a small city, in which case you might not have to pay anything because that’s the way this whole thing works. Am I right? Or am I right?

By: sepl12

sepl12 — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:40:41 +0000

The nfl needs to change their fine system to a percentage of the players cap hit. this way guys like a man named sue will get a meaningful fine when he continues to crush qbs.

By: offthelows

offthelows — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:35:43 +0000

There should be a progressive fine structure similar to tax rates. kam chancellor had the same issue last year, making about the minimum and getting multiple fines making it look at one point he might play a season for free. It’s also positionally biased. Linebackers and safeties are the positions most likely to be in position to hit offensive players (who nearly never get fined) with hits that can draw a fine.

By: joetoronto

joetoronto — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 10:31:18 +0000

That’s a well deserved fine, he let his team down with that one.

It was way too obvious and had to be called.