Bernard Pollard, Wade Smith Fined $5,000 In Chiefs vs. Texans Game

but it was completely unnecessary

And an even bigger problem with the whole situation is because of how the game is played and what’s being fined 90% of the time the guys getting the fines are going to be defensive players.

Shame that they aren’t taking these fines to the referee crews as well. I still say if you’re going to fine players for their blattant screw ups in order to better the game then some of these ref crews need to be fined as well.

Now you might get a fine if you make a hit on someone. This is terrable for football.

Is that something that can end a guys career?

Wade Smith also went out our D-Linemen’s knees on multiple occasions (while they were engaged with another O-Lineman).

It was completely unnecessary, and was done after TJ had let up. He was pushed into the kicking net for no reason. Would everyone consider it a silly fine if Jones were injured on the fall because his cleats got caught up in the net? Probably not…

Not to make revenue from the fines, but what if a star player is hurt by an “illegal hit”? Owners could say, “they took out my $60 million dollar man and now there’ll be less fans in the seats on Sundays.” I think they’re just trying to set a precedent, “if you’re going to do the extracurriculars after the play is over or hit someone helmet to helmet, we’re going to hit you where it hurts as well….in the pocket book.”

i must say the NFL is becoming a fine happy league i have 2 reaso i think there going this route

1. there being greedy and with the CBA Labor dispoute theymust be secertaly losing money and are stealing the players money for cheirty instead of using it to help the retired players

1. or they are in the hole as far as paying for there stupids cheritys so they are fining players left and right to make up the money the should be using for the retired players who need it more then those stupid charities

bottomline the fines have gone to far and the NFL has become vary fine happy sadly!

This is the new form of football I was watching old highlights of old school football and the guys back in the day prided them selfs on being tuff playing with broken hands broken legs making the big hit the game changing play by crushing a reciever over the middle
Those plays and type of players r long gone. I understand that the nfl wants to keep players safe but its like telling a boxer to not get in the ring u play at ur own risk that’s what makes the game great not many people can take that hit give that hit and walk away these guys r trained to hit trained to take hits its what they do. I see it as the nfls medical bills r way to high and they can’t afford guys getting payed out the rest of their career its become a joke. Like I said I agree let’s keep the game safe but understand this is a game built on toughness not weakness.

The Pollard penalty wasn’t’ a devastating hit. I think it was the fact that it was clearly unnecessary that made it a fine. If you inflict gratuitous violence after the play, you’re being stupid and malicious, and so even though it wasn’t a HARD push, it was gratuitous, and he deserved to be slapped.z

I hope the Dunta Robinson fine is overruled. I hope they revisit the “defenseles WR” rule, which I still don’t really understand.

Everybody wants Brodie Croyle to have a shot. I understand that. But…

That’s chickenshit, and the Texans pulled a lot of that last Sunday. They have a very good line. Very physical. Knock off the cheap shots. Win straight up, if you’re man enough, but I hate that shit more than I hate the “defenseless WR” stuff.

Not sure if it’s practical, though. It’s easy to forget what a cluster fuck the original challenge rules were, and how stultifying it was. The current system is really not that bad, except for the flat-out WRONG calls.

and not being able to cover a scarecrow?

league offices are gonna be very busy from now on with all the grievances about to be filed…..

"I fought the case, and I’m happy," Smith said. "But (it doesn’t erase) all the bashing of my name and all that stuff. I have kids and my kids looked at it.

"I was just happy to get it resolved. It was hanging over my head since week three, and now it’s not. People accuse you of stuff all the time. Stuff like this happens all the time. That’s why you have the appeal process to go through, to get everything the right way."

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/10/21/2341392/nfl-drops-shaun-smiths-fine.html

By pollard he knows what he did and he did it on purpose