Thread: Broncos safety Rahim Moore fined $21,000 for Week 1 hit

Broncos safety Rahim Moore was fined $21,000 for a hit in the team’s season-opening win over the Steelers. Moore was flagged for unnecessary roughness in the fourth quarter after a collision with Steelers wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders.

Moore was cited by the league for striking a defenseless player in the head and neck area.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/broncos/...ce=rsshomeblog

Ridiculous.

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

Ridiculous.

Totally agree - especially this

Moore was cited by the league for striking a defenseless player in the head and neck area.

Moore went LOW, and the receiver LOWERED HIS HEAD, causing what happened - Exactly what was Moore suppose to do to avoid this????????

hahahaha the NFL is so lame...

From article:

Rahim unnecessarily struck defenseless Steelers receiver Emmanuel Sanders in the head and neck area Sunday night.

rest - http://sports.yahoo.com/news/3-playe...1644--nfl.html

Heck yes - Rahim's hit was unnecessary - GEEZ - he should NOT have tried to do what he is suppose to do

Anyone got a video of this? I would love to see what happened. I missed the second half.

BRONCOS (what's up SR) should pay that fine for him and tell the kid to keep playing hard.

article written Sept. 10th

Rahim Moore held up after an errant pass skipped off the hands of Steelers WR Emmanuel Sanders in the third quarter of Sunday night's game. He actually took the brunt of the collision with Sanders. Yet the second-year Broncos safety was still called for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Sanders.

rest - http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/nf...manuel-sanders

Originally Posted by Nomad

BRONCOS (what's up SR) should pay that fine for him and tell the kid to keep playing hard.

I was thinking the same thing

I'm all for player safety, but this is FOOTBALL!! Someone needs to clue Goodell and the rest of the policy makers into that fact. I call it the pussification of the nfl. Try not to hit helmets, but with that said, it has to obvious and on purpose to be a penalty IMO.

Originally Posted by smith49

I'm all for player safety, but this is FOOTBALL!! Someone needs to clue Goodell and the rest of the policy makers into that fact. I call it the pussification of the nfl. Try not to hit helmets, but with that said, it has to obvious and on purpose to be a penalty IMO.

Tell the players to quit suing:shrugs:

Complete BS. That should not have been a penalty. The receiver was not defenseless. If he had caught the ball there would be no fine and no penalty. He ducked his head into Moore.

He deserved it. It was a way late hit.

Originally Posted by Northman

He deserved it. It was a way late hit.

This is quite possibly more ridiculous than Moore being fined... please tell me you are being intentionally absurd.

I see now. This is a way of raising revenue for the NFL. Replays showed that
Rahim Moore did not initiate the contact, but that the receiver went into Moore.
Moreover, it showed that Moore simply braced himself for the contact. So an
asinine replacement-ref call was backed by the absurd fine.
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