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BillsImpossible
10-07-2015, 06:26 PM
$8,681.

What a joke. How does the NFL come up with a stupid ass figure like that?

What kind of message does that send? Nothing. It's an insult.

A $32,000 fine would seem appropriate, and that money should be donated to a domestic violence charity, but the NFL no longer makes any sense.

Players are going to look at this and say, "I can punch a dude in the face, get away with it on the field and that's all it will cost me off the field?"

I can already hear coaches saying, "Sock him in the face with a good upper cut, I'll pay you're fine."

$8,681 to Odell Beckham is like $8.68 to the average Joe American.

It is a paltry slap on a limp wrist for something that would land anyone of us in jail for assault in real life.

Way to set the example, NFL.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000551873/article/odell-beckham-fined-8681-for-punching-bills-safety
casdhf
10-07-2015, 06:44 PM
What's your scientific formula for coming up with 32K?
OpIv37
10-07-2015, 07:19 PM
A fine on Wed doesn't help us.

15 yards on Sunday may have.

The NFL just admitted that their refs missed a big call.
DraftBoy
10-07-2015, 07:26 PM
A fine on Wed doesn't help us.

15 yards on Sunday may have.

The NFL just admitted that their refs missed a big call.

Not sure how 15 yards is going to make up for 14 points...but the call would of helped something.
BillsImpossible
10-07-2015, 07:48 PM
What's your scientific formula for coming up with 32K?

$1,000 for each team in the NFL.
OpIv37
10-07-2015, 08:07 PM
Not sure how 15 yards is going to make up for 14 points...but the call would of helped something.

I qualified it with a "may." Would it have affected the outcome? Not likely, but possibly. There is no way to tell now.
Luisito23
10-07-2015, 08:28 PM
Of course it would've helped...Not win the game, but ****, 15 yds. is 15 yds.
Skooby
10-07-2015, 09:18 PM
Token gesture, gee we could of been somebody.
trapezeus
10-08-2015, 04:57 AM
If you can cheat for 15 years and get a suspension overturned, I'm pretty surveyor can win an appeal on a punch that is clearly caught on tape. The league sucks.
DraftBoy
10-08-2015, 05:43 AM
I qualified it with a "may." Would it have affected the outcome? Not likely, but possibly. There is no way to tell now.

Fair enough, however instead of the fine or the 15 yards I would of preferred he just been ejected which is the punishment for throwing a punch in a game.
OpIv37
10-08-2015, 08:33 AM
Fair enough, however instead of the fine or the 15 yards I would of preferred he just been ejected which is the punishment for throwing a punch in a game.

Yeah well he was playing so poorly that may have affected the outcome in their favor....
Victor7
10-08-2015, 09:10 AM
What a totally random amount. Oh and insignificant to an NFL player.

Mario Williams got fined 9k last year for wearing red socks during a game. You read that correctly. Wearing the wrong socks is worse that punching someone in the eyes of Roger Goodell's NFL.
OpIv37
10-08-2015, 10:08 AM
What a totally random amount. Oh and insignificant to an NFL player.

Mario Williams got fined 9k last year for wearing red socks during a game. You read that correctly. Wearing the wrong socks is worse that punching someone in the eyes of Roger Goodell's NFL.

It's probably a percentage of his game day salary.
HHURRICANE
10-08-2015, 08:39 PM
Rex should have been fined.