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Rob Jackson and Perry Riley each fined $15,000 for hits vs. Rams

Rookie wide receiver Niles Paul wasn’t the only Redskins player to receive a fine for a hit in Sunday’s game at St. Louis. Linebackers Rob Jackson and Perry Riley have been fined $15,000 apiece after also receiving unnecessary roughness calls.

Jackson’s fine was for a hit in which he took Sam Bradford to the ground after the quarterback released a pass.

Riley’s hit came when he drilled St. Louis punt returner Austin Pettis just as he secured the ball.

Coach Mike Shanahan argued Riley’s infraction during the game, but he agreed that Jackson was guilty of his penalty.

Paul was fined $20,000 for his hit, which also was in punt coverage, because it was helmet-to-helmet.

As B Mitch said tonight... "why don't we just give them all pink flags, and say no more tackling."

I think it's hard for a player running full speed to worry about where the hit is going to be. Pettis should have called fair catch, he didn't and got rocked with a perfectly timed hit.

First all three were clean hits but ill go from the cleanest to dirtiest.

Riley's hit was clean 100%. He hit the PR in the body with no contact to the head AND he was blocked into the PR. Now he was going to hit him anyway, but he was illegally pushed from the back into the PR making him arrive earlier. How early he got thee is what I believe he got flagged for.

Jackson's hit was only illegal because Bradford didn't go down right away and Rob finished the tackle. Other than that it was 100% clean.

Fining fining either of these guys is just a joke.

Paul hit the PR a little high, but the only helmet to helmet contact was very slight contact from Paul's helmet below his left ear. In other words it was the type of contact that of impossible too avoid with such a violent hit.

I can see fining him maybe $5000, but that is it.

I think Riley's play shouldn't have been a flash and there is NO WAY the NFL can justify a fine on him.

jackason week flag, but it should have been called. Absolutely no fine.

Paul flag with a much lower fine.

I can remember Lance Briggs malling a Pez dispenser out of Ramsey with no flash or fine and an Egirl player pile driving JC WWE style on his head after the pass was gone and no flag, no fine.

Why is the NFL getting so fine happy?

I think Roger Goodell is worried about being sued by a player who has a career ending injury from a bad hit.

Deadskins wrote:I think Roger Goodell is worried about being sued by a player who has a career ending injury from a bad hit.

So why fine clean hits? I can understand fining fire dirty hits and none of these his were dirty!

skinsfan#33 wrote:

Deadskins wrote:I think Roger Goodell is worried about being sued by a player who has a career ending injury from a bad hit.

So why fine clean hits? I can understand fining fire dirty hits and none of these his were dirty!

+1

Deadskins wrote:I think Roger Goodell is worried about being sued by a player who has a career ending injury from a bad hit.

If true, then Goodell has created the situation himself, by converting responsibility for injuries from an implied risk assumed by the players in exchange for the significant money that could be made (see Darrell Stingley), to the league, as a risk of doing business.

He is destroying the game. You may scoff now... but the game you watch in 20 years will be nothing like the game you see today.

Not saing that I agree with Goodell, that's just the only reason I can possibly think of.

All three hits were excellent and clean. Paul's 'victim' even says the hit was fine, and thinks he should've called fair catch. Those crappy calls made the game much closer than it ever could've been otherwise.