Two Bills fined by the league

[ServoBillieves]

These fines are getting ridiculous... Does the NFL not make enough money?

» Buffalo Bills (http://www.nfl.com/teams/buffalobills/profile?team=BUF) running back Quinton Ganther (http://www.nfl.com/players/quintonganther/profile?id=GAN664462) was fined $5,000 for unnecessary roughness after being flagged for a roughing-the-punter penalty during a loss to the Minnesota Vikings (http://www.nfl.com/teams/minnesotavikings/profile?team=MIN). Bills guard Andy Levitre (http://www.nfl.com/players/andylevitre/profile?id=LEV605031) was fined $7,500, also for unnecessary roughness, after he struck an opponent late.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d81ccbb71/article/cole-receives-fourth-unnecessaryroughness-fine-in-two-years?module=HP_headlines

I didn't see the game, were these legit hits or some slapping?

[BillsFever21]

They were hardly anything. The league wants to fine the players for everything nowadays. Oh well it's not my money.

[Mr. Pink]

The league is trying to protect defenseless players to a fault...basically.

[wmoz11]

Merry Christmas to a few charities.

[Mr. Miyagi]

I was at the game. Those were complete BS penalties.

[RoscoeMagic]

Yeah how was that roughing the punter by Ganther? It looked to me like a clean block how is that not allowed? He didn't even run into him at the punt, he was putting a block on the dude. That crap gave them a first down. I still don't get that one. Anyone?

[psubills62]

The Levitre play was right around when the whistles were being blown, from what it seemed. Not malicious or penalty-worthy at all. The Ganther play was a legit block, imo, just looked bad because it was a 100-pound punter running down the field. Ganther even waited until he was sure it wouldn't be a block in the back.

[kelly2reed4six]

The Levitre play was right around when the whistles were being blown, from what it seemed. Not malicious or penalty-worthy at all. The Ganther play was a legit block, imo, just looked bad because it was a 100-pound punter running down the field. Ganther even waited until he was sure it wouldn't be a block in the back.



This is probably the worst year of officiating I have seen ever....all around across the league. These loser refs should be able to be fined for sucking balls at making calls.

[YardRat]

Meh...personally I think both penalties were valid, but not worthy of a fine.

[psubills62]

This is probably the worst year of officiating I have seen ever....all around across the league. These loser refs should be able to be fined for sucking balls at making calls.

They were absolutely horrible in the Minnesota game. The refs should have been fined by the league.

[BertSquirtgum]

the nfl is turning into a ****ing joke. is it possible for the officiating of nfl games to get worse and worse every year? some of these officials make me sick, i often wonder if they have cataracts in their eyes.

[jamze132]

I was at the game. Those were complete BS penalties.
I bet the guy that sat at home and watched the replays over and over could form a better opinion on the plays than you who attended.

[BertSquirtgum]

I bet the guy that sat at home and watched the replays over and over could form a better opinion on the plays than you who attended.
i did that and they were bull**** garbage penalties. the saying in our house during the game was....wow, you sure can tell they're playing in Minnesota

[Night Train]

The Ganther fine is a reach of epic proportions. :shakeno:


He was flagged and that wasn't much of a hit at all.

:monkeyp: NFL

[Buddo]

Levitre's penalty was justified - the whistle had blown. It was dumb, but didn't exactly qualify as anything 'malicious'. To get fined for it, seems ludicrous tbh.

The Ganther one was also nothing to write home about. Unless you can't block the punter at all any more. Didn't think that should even have been a penalty tbh, unless the whistle had blown - and I don't think it had.

Neither instance could I see as being 'fine worthy'. Watch any number of games, and you will see far worse stuff, neither get penalised in the first place, of fined for after.