Garcia late hit draws $25K fine

AN NFL spokesman tells us the Vikings' DE Ray Edwards has been fined $25,000 by the NFL for two infractions against the Bucs last Sunday, including a vicious late hit on QB Jeff Garcia that opened a gash in his chin.

Edwards also committed another foul that was deemed unnecessary roughness when he "leg whipped" an unidentified Bucs player, the league said.

Bucs DL Jimmy Wilkerson was not fined for a hit that drew an unnecessary roughness penalty because he made contact with Minnesota QB Gus Frerrotte's head.

Edwards is permitted to appeal the fine, though it's not known whether he intends to. The $25,000 sum is a sizable fine. Based on his 2008 base salary of $445,000, Edwards makes roughly $27,812 for each game.

Comments

[CW]

Wow that's a huge fine. Leg-whipped??? What a Jack@ss.

[James]

25k is a "huge fine"? Are you kidding? Mike Martz was fined $20k for saying a few public words about the refs and this guy gets only $5k more? That's a joke.

He and his defensive line posse of steriod fueled DT's and alcholic cheapshot-artist Right End should all be watching the rest of 2008 from the NFL's time-out corner. Now that would be "HUGE".

[noosa]

it took em long enough to get this fine out

[IdahoBUCfan]

The information seems somewhat incomplete. WHEN was there a surgery, and WHAT kind of recovery time is expected? I seriously doubt that he was going to play very much anyway, but it would be nice to find out what is really happening!

[itch]

The Wilkerson call was a really bad one. That was as legitimate a hit as any. Glad he got no fine.

Edwards seemed like he was over matched and just playing cheap. He deserved $50K ($25K x 2).