Wesley Suspended One Game Without Pay

[Montsta]

http://blogs.nfl.com/2009/10/19/panthers-wesley-suspended-one-game-without-pay-for-hit/

Thoughts?

[PantherDude]

I felt maybe he should've been suspended a little bit longer, but I have no problem with this one. Hopefully he'll learn from this & not do it again.

[bleys]

one game, most he should be suspended for IMO.. he tried to make a play on the ball, but timed it too early.

Had he timed it right, we wouldn't be talking about this. Perhaps since he left his feet, but I disagree with them saying he hit the head at all.. From what I can see, it looks like he puts a shoulder into his chest. It's close due to him throwing his elbow, but you can only say his neck area at the most... who knows.

he's getting what he's getting. it's over and done with.

[grateflday]

No surprise here. I was expecting a suspension and its warranted.

[Montsta]

Yeah, it's about what I thought it would be. So does he get a fine on top of that? Or is the loss of game check the fine? I'd imagine it would be like a $25K or $30K fine in addition, but I don't know.

[Captroop]

I'm just trying to work out how much he will lose by missing one game. Where's Mr. Scot with his contract details?

If he's making more than $400k per year, then he got a pretty hefty fine, because that would be more than $25,000, which was the high end of the possible fine penalties I heard postulated.

[Panthers128]

seeing as they ejected him at halftime of the bucs game, i think it should have just been a large fine

but the NFL is becoming softer as each day passes, maybe they'll make a new football league that is a contact sport someday, a place for people like ray lewis to play