Clay Matthews fined $15,750

Even Troy Aikman, not known for his love of the Packers, thought the hit was clean.

He could and should have pulled up and didn't.  That will draw a penalty every time.  The pass was over and he hit him anyway.  Stupid decision on Clay's part.

 

If that was Rodgers you would want the flag.  The only mistake was calling it helmet-to-helmet instead of roughing the passer. 

I idea of "2 steps" is pretty much gone.  Used to be the refs let you take 2 steps after the QB released the ball to get a hit in.  Now, if you can pull up, you are expected to pull up.  Sucks for defenders but it's where the game is now.  Players have to adjust.  

Walden better be fined $157,500 then because what he did was 10X worse than what Clay did. 

It was the club. That thing looked menacing. 

 

I cant agree with any calls made by Mike Carey's crew. He onced tossed Terrell Suggs from a game because Suggs got in his face for a late hit on Joey Harrington and told reporters Suggs had "malice in his heart". 

Didn't have a real problem with the penalty given today's NFL, but the fine seems pretty excessive.

The fine is asinine.

May my late grandfather, who first used the word "asinine" in my presence when I was a kid leading to me believe I had just learned a new curse word and thereby adding it to my lifetime lexicon, visit badell in his dreams tonight and scare the **** out of him.

Did your grandfather teach you the word titillate too? 

Nope, grandpa grew up through the depression eating hickory nuts out in the woods as a teenager so the younger kids could eat supper.  Nothing titillating in his story...  well, until he met grandma, I suppose, otherwise I wouldn't be here. 

Big deal, it's pocket change to CMIII

It may be pocket change, but it's CMIII's image that's paying. His hit on Kaepernick was just plain stupid and he deserved the penalty. Now he's on record as having two fines in the same season and I would bet he doesn't want that type of rep. This one is probably a "second offender" type, no matter that it was a legal hit.

I hear ya but pretty soon they will be playing flag football or have a red light on their helmet and when the defender hits them hard enough the light goes on and the player is down. 

Matt Birk agreed - the fine was asinine. 

By Rob Demovsky | ESPN.com

 

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Remember when Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy insisted linebacker Clay Matthews was not a dirty player after his late hit on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in Week 1?

Well, according to Matthews, the NFL agreed with McCarthy.

Sort of.

Matthews told ESPN.com on Thursday that the league reduced the $15,000 fine he received for hitting Kaerpernick out of bounds in the season opener. That penalty started a fracas on the sideline. Matthews said the fine was cut to $7,500.

What's more, Matthews said he also won the appeal on his fine from Week 10 against the Philadelphia Eagles, when he was originally docked $15,750 for his roughing the passer penalty against Nick Foles.

"I got the whole thing rescinded because I didn't hit him with my head," Matthews said.

Matthews said he originally asked for that fine to be reduced, but NFL appeals officer Matt Birk said he'd wipe out the entire thing.

"It was funny because he said I think you're underselling yourself as far as my appeal," Matthews said. "He's like, 'I don't think you hit him with your head at all.' I thought I hit him legally, so $15,000 was way too much. And he said, 'Well, I don't think you really did anything, so we're going to take that away.' So that was a good day."

Those were Matthews' only two fines of the season.

"And now it's only one -- half of one," he said.

Well, great... But it sure would be nice to see him hit the QB a bunch more this weekend and forward. Time to see the Claymaker...