{"id":10093,"date":"2011-09-22T15:39:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T19:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10093"},"modified":"2011-09-22T15:39:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T19:39:51","slug":"nfl-fines-falcons-robinson-40000-for-hit-on-eagles%e2%80%99-maclin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10093","title":{"rendered":"NFL Fines Falcons Robinson $40,000 For Hit On Eagles\u2019 Maclin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> \u2014 <strong>Dunta Robinson<\/strong> will pay for his flagrant hit on the Eagles\u2019 <strong>Jeremy Maclin<\/strong>. He won\u2019t be suspended.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL on Monday fined the Falcons cornerback $40,000 for the hit in which he led with his helmet and crashed into <strong>Maclin<\/strong> in the third quarter of Atlanta\u2019s 35-31 win over Philadelphia on Sunday night. <strong>Robinson<\/strong> was penalized 15 yards for unnecessary roughness.<\/p>\n<p>The league did not suspend<strong> Robinson<\/strong> although it has said hits like the one he put on <strong>Maclin<\/strong> could lead to such action. <strong>Robinson<\/strong> is a repeat offender, having being fined $25,000 last year for a similar hit on the Eagles\u2019 <strong>DeSean Jackson<\/strong> that left both players with concussions.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter sent to <strong>Robinson<\/strong>, NFL vice president of football operations <strong>Merton Hanks<\/strong> noted that \u201cfuture offenses will result in an escalation of fines up to and including suspension.\u201d<br \/>\nCommissioner<strong> Roger Goodell<\/strong> was advised of the decision, and said \u201cwe felt this was the appropriate discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Dunta Robinson will pay for his flagrant hit on the Eagles\u2019 Jeremy Maclin. He won\u2019t be suspended. The NFL on Monday fined the Falcons cornerback $40,000 for the hit in which he led with his helmet and crashed into Maclin in the third quarter of Atlanta\u2019s 35-31 win over Philadelphia on Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}