Comments on: Larry Fitzgerald fined $7,875 for facemasking Janoris Jenkins

By: schmitty2

schmitty2 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:50:39 +0000

That game was 9 days ago! Maybe someone should give the league a penalty for “Delay of fine”

By: daknight93

daknight93 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:35:14 +0000

The league office has gotten very lazy now with player fines…c’mon, now the league reviews every game to give out fines that look intentional..this is a fast pace game and the league office should be doing other things to make league safer other than handing out fines…leave the game only and leave it up to the officials

By: EJ

EJ — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:00:20 +0000

Fitzgerald may not be a dirty player, but that was a dirty play.

By: steelers4385

steelers4385 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:49:56 +0000

I dont care for the cardinals.. But he should have not been fined. It was a smart move by fitz saving a pick 6. He is not a repeat offender or a dirty player. Much respect for fitz tho. God bless his mother.

By: backindasaddle

backindasaddle — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:33:54 +0000

Why is this being fined? Was this somehow a deliberately violent hit with intent to cause injury or something. No…of course not. Why shouldn’t this just simply be a face mask and a 15 yard penalty. Is Larry Fitzgerald a habitually dirty player who needs to be disciplined because he’s injured other players and continues to make malicious hits on other players. Again….of course not. So why is this being fined?

By: thejabronisayz

thejabronisayz — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:32:04 +0000

I don’t really care about the fine as much as I care about Fitz robbing Jenkins of a pick-six. If you watch the replay it’s obvious that Jenkins would have coasted for the TD had Fitz not grabbed the facemask. It twisted his head back too, didn’t look good.

By: marshallfaulk

marshallfaulk — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:14:08 +0000

The problem is there was no flag. Im a rams fan and was irate cus i saw it.

By: bennyb82

bennyb82 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:47:46 +0000

But the NFL donates all fines to charity…what that really means is that they will donate money, up to the penny, that can be written off for tax purposes. The NFL will never actually donate money that was going to be in their own pockets. Of course, the whole reason they have a PR dept is to convince us otherwise.

By: taylorgang24

taylorgang24 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:18:51 +0000

The nfl only donates 5% of its profits from selling pink merchandise to breast cancer. IT IS A JOKE. The nfl boasts their commitment to breast cancer and subjects fans coaches and players to an entire month of pink shoes towels gloves. And in the end they’re only giving a fraction of goodells yearly salary. 5%? Those jerseys cost prob about 20 bucks to make and they’re sold for 150. Not to mention in 30 years when I’m watching highlights, 25% of all those amazing plays will be with everyone wearing pink. This is greed in its purest most unadulterated form.

By: crp63

crp63 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:15:36 +0000

No favortism there…If Jenkins had done that to keep Fitz from beating him for a td it would have cost him 20k….

By: pftcensorssuck

pftcensorssuck — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:10:32 +0000

Love to see somebody grab HIM by the mask next time he’s streaking down the field for a TD.

By: thingamajig

thingamajig — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:09:28 +0000

So if you touch a facemask 15 yards is not enough in todays game of football?

By: FinFan68

FinFan68 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:02:37 +0000

When did the penalties become almost mandatory fines? I can see fines for intentionally dangerous (and unquestionably illegal) plays but it seems like the league has gotten very lazy. Rather than reviewing the plays for obvious intent, they are just fining all personal fouls if they believe the call was correct. Some guys are getting fined for legal plays that happened to result in injury. That is not right and is something the league can fix. It’s a shame that the union does nothing to protect its membership when guys do something intentionally dangerous. They sit there silently and then claim the league does nothing for player safety…while the union fights everything imaginable.

By: omeezyx

omeezyx — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:50:18 +0000

The NFL should donate all the money it gets from player fines to breast cancer during the month of October

By: fitzmagic1212

fitzmagic1212 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:47:56 +0000

saved a pick six for 8 grand..id say it was worth it