Barnett fined ... and fined ... and fined ...

[texaspackerbacker]

I kinda think it should be no flag, no fine. If it was that bad a hit or against the rules, the field should have a little laundry on it. How can it be a fin-able offense if it wasn't even called a penalty. Fines should be no-brainers not even worth discussing.

Both calls were questionable at best, but if they must do something--send a message or whatever, I LIKE the idea that they don't screw the team with a big penalty. Barnett can certainly afford the fine. He may "only" have a $2 million salary, but he does make $34.9 million for six years.

[SnakeLH2006]

He should have never started jaywalking. It is a gateway crime.

No that's ok. I've got plenty of GB clubbin' buddies that know Nick and say he's done some nasty things with some fatties. Couldn't believe that he would take them home. Hey I love him as a player (as a Packer player) but those things he did after-bar are a crime against men. Whatever I guess and to each their own, as he looked happy here:

[Merlin]

Does anyone know of a site where they list all of the fines levied for the previous week for the entire NFL? I know when we are watching games here and the refs don't throw a flag on an obvious "illegal" hit, we all say he'll be getting a letter in the mail on Monday. I am curious to see the hits and the fines that are associated with those hits since they are usually flagged and flagrant or ones that don't make the news (probably because the officials in the NFL are blind and they don't want to make them look worse then they are).

[Iron Mike]

I kinda think it should be no flag, no fine. If it was that bad a hit or against the rules, the field should have a little laundry on it. How can it be a fin-able offense if it wasn't even called a penalty. Fines should be no-brainers not even worth discussing.

I'll take the opposing viewpoint. I'm OK with a retroactive fine, but as long as they are reviewing film and fining players after the fact, how about reviewing the film and fining the officiating crew for missed calls???

[MadtownPacker]

He should have never started jaywalking. It is a gateway crime.

No that's ok. I've got plenty of GB clubbin' buddies that know Nick and say he's done some nasty things with some fatties. Couldn't believe that he would take them home. Hey I love him as a player (as a Packer player) but those things he did after-bar are a crime against men. Whatever I guess and to each their own, as he looked happy here:

Oh let me guess, you are one of those dudes that only bangs supermodels? In other words, that means you aint getting none.

The only crime against men is turning away free, clean coochie.

[packerbacker1234]

Funny.

The horsecollar penalty is a joke. Just because his hand intially started at the collar, it's about how the tackle was made. Hand grasps shoulder pads, then immediatly let go and went to all jersey and drug him down, without any snapping of the neck motion, or anything apparently illegal.

The "vicous" hit on Kitna was a legal tackle by the rulebook that is the NFL, hence no flag was thrown (ok, it wasn't a tackle, but a knockdown).

They seriously called it a helmet to helmet? There was a guy already at Kitna's feet, so barnett went over the top and layed some wood with HIS SHOULDER into kitna. The fact it was his head is irrelevant once outside the pocket. Plus, it appeared to me, it was indeed his chest that took a majority of the blow, and not the actual head.

It didn't look illegal live, or slowed down, or by the rule book. The QB is a running back in that situation. Those same hits happen ALL THE TIME against not just RB's, but WR's, and they are totally legal. This guy had the ball in his hands by the time Barnett made his move to get the hit, and it was gone JUST BEFORE the hit occured.

No reason for these silly fines. Come on NFL, let the players play. It's just like Barnett joked after getting the fine for the hit on kitna "I guess they just don't want us tackling QB's anymore."