Guess the fine for D. Wesley

[Kettle]

$12,500

i've seen that before

[Kettle]

$12,500

i've seen that before

[nosuchthingasapanther]

$10k.

[bucman]

What a cheap shot that was, Your boy should be suspended for the rest of the year. No room in football for classless acts like that.

[ladypanther]

What a cheap shot that was, Your boy should be suspended for the rest of the year. No room in football for classless acts like that.

You are right. I think we were all shocked by that.

[megadeth078]

He will prob want lose any games because they dude never called Fair Catch. Thus he was not helpless. I would say 35,000

Thank god the people who decide the fines actually know the rules...

[Tank]

$50k

[neverlosethefeeling]

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- New York Jets safety Eric Smith thinks the NFL "made an example" of him with its punishment of his helmet-to-helmet hit on Arizona's Anquan Boldin a few weeks ago.

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Jets S Eric Smith felt his fine was excessive for this hit.

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Smith was suspended and fined $50,000, including one game check, after the scary collision near the end of New York's 56-35 win on Sept. 28.

"If you compare it to the other fines and the extent and the value of the number they put on the other fines, I definitely feel that I may have been made an example of," Smith said Thursday. "It was a first offense this year, and there are a couple of second offenses that haven't been as severe as mine."

Boldin needed surgery to repair a fractured sinus and is sidelined indefinitely. Smith, in his third year, appealed the decision and insisted there was no malicious intent on his part. The league said Smith committed a flagrant violation of player safety rules and that Boldin was in a defenseless position when contact was made.

"I tried to tell them that my intention wasn't to hit him like that, but they told me intent wasn't looked at," said Smith, whose salary is $445,000. "But if intent isn't involved, then why isn't every fine the same?"

That is a very interesting point.

[jdpanthers1]

I say about 50,000, Ray Lewis got fined 25,000 last week for a late hit. Wesley's hit was way worse.

[Rypkord]

75k

God thats a lot of money to my broke ass...

If not 75k probably the same as smith. 50k and a game check which will be ever more than 75k.

[PantherBrew]

Texas $

[Matt Foley]

I missed it, but it's leading off aol's homepage. Not their sports homepage. Their overall homepage. Must have been bad.

[Sam Mills Fan]

He deserves a suspension, not just a fine.

[Mesmer]

Suspension and a fine. I, as a Panther fan, was completely embarrassed when I saw Dante Wesley perform that idiotic cheap shot, and then go on to argue with the official over the ejection call.

Completely retarded, and a totally 110% dirty hit. I don't care how bad Danny Crossman is. NFL players know better than that, and there's no excuse for that kind of hit. That guy could have been seriously injured, and I'm very thankful that he appeared to be alright.