JACOBS FINDS ?FIRE? IN WILFORK FINGER Posted by Mike Florio on January 25, 2008, 11:19 a.m. The last time the Giants and the Patriots played, New England defensive tackle Vince Wilfork went ?Moe? on New York running back Brandon Jacobs, jamming a finger through Jacobs? face mask and toward his eye. http://beta.profootballtalk.com/2008/01/25/jacobs-finds-fire-in-wilfork-finger/ Discuss. TBTF
He got fined $5,000 for his facemask penalty on Michael Turner during the AFCCG. That was his fourth fine of the season: J.P. Losman knee shot, late hit on Jason Witten, Brandon Jacobs' eye incident, and now this. When do you start suspending repeat offenders?
Repeat offenders of what? Wilfork has been fined 4 times this season, each time for different things as you pointed out. This isn't like Roy Williams repeatedly committing the same exact penalty with the horsecollar tackles, being fined for it 3x in one season before doing it again and being suspended. If he had hit a qb late 4 times and gotten fined for it, poked 4 guys in the eye, or had 4 blatant and severe facemasks he probably would have gotten suspended for a regular season game.
And where is the precedent for suspending people for various infractions that all fall under the vague umbrella of unnecessary roughness. Fines for these offenses are perfectly reasonable because thats the usual penalty for them. Suspending a guy for various (not poking 4x or something like that) infractions, none of which are more egregious in themselves than to warrant more than a fine, is stupid.
So, by your logic, a player can helmet to helmet a QB, then late hit a player, then punch a guy in the face, and then spit at someone and be fine. After all it is not the "same thing"
No...you also missed when I said "none of which are more egregious in themselves than to warrant more than a fine." Punching a guy in the face and spitting both warrant suspensions in themselves. If of the course of an entire season a guy does 4 separate things that warrant fines but not suspensions, then no he shouldn't get suspended. While a fine wasn't out of line for anything Wilfork did, none of them really warranted suspension.
