{"id":10238,"date":"2011-09-29T15:18:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T19:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10238"},"modified":"2011-09-29T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T17:06:06","slug":"moore-says-he-was-fined-7500-by-nfl-for-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10238","title":{"rendered":"Moore Says He Was Fined $7,500 By NFL For Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga<\/strong>. &#8211; Falcons safety <strong>William Moore<\/strong> says he was fined $7,500 by the NFL for a hit in last week\u2019s loss to Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>There was some confusion when<strong> Moore<\/strong> said Wednesday he was fined for a helmet-to-helmet hit that did not draw a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, coach <strong>Mike Smith<\/strong> confirmed the fine was for an unnecessary roughness penalty when <strong>Moore<\/strong> used his helmet to hit running back <strong>Earnest Graham<\/strong> in the third quarter of the Buccaneers\u2019 16-13 win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moore<\/strong> had four tackles and an interception in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second straight week the league has fined an Atlanta defensive back. Cornerback <strong>Dunta Robinson<\/strong> was fined $40,000 for leading with his helmet on his hit on Philadelphia receiver <strong>Jeremy Maclin<\/strong> on Sept. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. &#8211; Falcons safety William Moore says he was fined $7,500 by the NFL for a hit in last week\u2019s loss to Tampa Bay. There was some confusion when Moore said Wednesday he was fined for a helmet-to-helmet hit that did not draw a penalty. Instead, coach Mike Smith confirmed the fine was [&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-10238","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\/10238","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=10238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}