Comments on: Chargers’ Melvin Ingram fined $15,750 for hit on Drew Brees

By: nomercy2012

nomercy2012 — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:03:56 +0000

Saints fan, saw the game – agree with the penalty, bottom line – he hit him. Don’t agree with the fine. It was clearly not intentional.

bathroomben7 says:Oct 12, 2012 9:15 PM

So your mad Drew that someone cheapshotted you and tried to take you out? But yet you think it’s ok for your team to go and do that to other people every game? How does that make sense? Oh yeah because you don’t have a shred of moral fiber, you dirty liar.

Wow, bathroomben – hate much? Where in the world do you get Drew being mad someone cheapshotted him? There isn’t even the slightest comment from Drew in the article, or any mention of his feeling on the hit whatsoever.

And now it’s his team does that to other people “every game”?? Dirty liar without a shred of moral fiber? Wow…what’s the weather like on your planet?

By: musicman495

musicman495 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:35:43 +0000

By the way, for those who think it was a bad call to begin with, Chris Collinsworth’s reaction to the play was: “Good call, fine coming.”

By: musicman495

musicman495 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:29:18 +0000

Hey, if the commissioner says he did it, then it must be true, right guys? The players agreed to this system in the CBA, so he’s got nothing to complain about, right guys?

“We all know he did it. He should just shut up and take his punishment like a man.” Right guys?

By: bubashep

bubashep — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:28:47 +0000

Can someone please tell me the difference between a $15,750 hit and $16,000 hit?

By: 4thqtrsaint

4thqtrsaint — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:55:29 +0000

Insert Drew Brees is short joke here

By: 4thqtrsaint

4thqtrsaint — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:55:01 +0000

Insert comment about this being a passing league here

By: devrick

devrick — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:29:17 +0000

While I think Norv is a horrible head coach and the penalty and fine were questionable, I do appreciate that he didn’t whine or complain about it. The refs are going to call it, so you have to be able to adjust or you’re going to hurt your team. Like it or not, that’s the reality.

By: ambitoos

ambitoos — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 05:54:25 +0000

Fine him another 15k for losing that interception.

By: mogogo1

mogogo1 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 05:45:53 +0000

I’d love to have heard the discussion where somebody lobbied for a fine of $16K only to be overruled because $15,750 was better. It’s like the league thinks it’s more serious if it’s not a round figure.

Waiting for a guy to be fined $19,999.99 because that will make him feel like he’s getting off easy, just like how gas prices work.

By: saintsfan1111

saintsfan1111 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 05:14:13 +0000

Call was correct, but Goodell as usual is over the top with his fines.

By: paulitik74

paulitik74 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 03:49:03 +0000

Wow, the refs are still getting the Chargers.

The “real refs” come back and all of sudden the Ain’ts start getting all the calls. Hmmmm….

By: judsonjr

judsonjr — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 03:13:26 +0000

The problem I have is that the QB is a moving target.

If Brees stands up straight up and steps into the throw, the facemask gets buried right between the numbers. When he leans back and doesn’t step into the throw, he exposes his chin and suddenly a clean hit is worthy of a flag.

By: bathroomben7

bathroomben7 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 01:15:36 +0000

By: silentcount

silentcount — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:56:07 +0000

To be fair, a fine is not enough. It should be labeled as a bounty system and Norm Turner should be suspended for a year. Or do we wait 3 years and then do it? How does that work under the new rules?

By: carlsbadboltfan

carlsbadboltfan — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:37:56 +0000

So the hit that took Cushing out for the season is only $10k, but the hit on Brees that resulted in a little boo-boo on his chin is over $15K? Really?

By: nflhof

nflhof — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:15:15 +0000

Well at least they are consistently tooling the team, players and city. That Drew Brees love fest last Sunday was sickening and now a player is paying for the party room that Sean Payton and his gang used.

By: sfsaintsfan

sfsaintsfan — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:07:05 +0000

I agree with the call during the game but not the fine. The player should have gotten the flag and the call was correct, but he was not trying to hurt Brees. There was no intent to injure so there should have been no fine.

The hit on Cushing should have resulted in a fine and a suspension. That hit had intent to injure written all over it.

By: rooneyruleblues

rooneyruleblues — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:29:09 +0000

Any record a modern passer breaks should have an asterisk because you cant even touch these guys anymore, soon you wont be able to blitz them either.

By: choppa2lis

choppa2lis — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:23:55 +0000

whats the difference between a junk car and the vikings? a junk car has a title

By: hor2012

hor2012 — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:22:41 +0000

I’m a Saints fan. But come on, this is football. The call was right but the fine is wrong

By: choppa2lis

choppa2lis — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:19:02 +0000

wow, no viking fan still bitter about 2009, which the Saints were actually called for more penalities in that game than the vikings were, but viking fans blatantly ignore that fact. isn’t using the same lame stupid line drew brees demands an explanation? must be busy watching prince videos

By: sdsockers

sdsockers — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:16:54 +0000

As a “crying Charger fan”, I actually watched the game. I thought the hit was a good, hard hit to the upper chest, and Ingram’s helmet slid up to Brees’s head. I was dismayed by the penalty, no matter who was playing.
Alex Karras is laughing at these rules.

By: jl215

jl215 — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:10:31 +0000

“Elite” QB’s will always be protected and certain teams will always get the benifit of the doubt… did the Philadelphia Eagle get fined for blatently jumping in the air and driving his cleats into the back of the Pittsburgh Steeler Pouncey? Even Keshawn had it on C’mon Man. Did the Titans coach get an unsportsman like flag for his team for throwing an object at a Steeler running back running down the sideline last night? No. But a NY Jets coach was fired last year for interfering with a runner on the side line…although it was a little different. When a penalty changes the outcome of a game it does effect the fans.

By: dannythebisforbeast

dannythebisforbeast — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:03:24 +0000

Ooh blood. Must have been a fineable offense. How bout just get it over with and put flags on the QB. It’s to the point where I’m surprised when there’s not a flag or a fine when a QB gets hit

By: veerapan88

veerapan88 — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:00:10 +0000

Slauson fined $10K on cheap shot to Brian Cushing. Cushing is done for the season.

Ingram fined $15K on technically correct flag thrown during a hit to Drew Brees – in which he got up from immediately.

Really NFL? Really??

By: NakedCowboy!

NakedCowboy! — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:59:02 +0000

brees is holding out for a larger fine… he is also claiming bounty system is not real… like santa claus…

By: lilrob10201

lilrob10201 — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:56:59 +0000

NFL should start making players wear braes,give each other complements ,and hug each other during the play.Lets also change the football into a balloon and change the NFL’s name to sarcast-a-ball.Micheal Vick never fumbles.

By: SeenThisB4

SeenThisB4 — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:55:51 +0000

And I guess he won’t even pick up the $10 grand in bounty that his defensive group had on Brees’ head.

By: 49ersgiants4life

49ersgiants4life — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:54:33 +0000

The NFL started to turn this league into flag football the second they started overly protecting QB’s guys were worried about hitting QB’s in certain places then people are throwing more passes and then more rules were put in to stop people from hitting guys in a “defenseless” position it’s garbage quarterbacks should be football players they shouldn’t get singled out

By: jrdbrn

jrdbrn — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:50:30 +0000

He hit his chin hard enough to bleed. No denying what the guy did… so stop defending it.