Fine but No Suspension for Wilfork

After meeting with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell last week concerning dirty play, Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork has been fined $35,000 but was not suspended from the league for a hit to the helmet of Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler in the teams’ matchup on October 20. The decision to fine Wilfork but not suspended him was announced late last week, and the verdict is partly due to a DVD from the Patriots’ video department that showed the entire disputed act.

In the DVD that Wilfork’s wife Bianca handed Goodell at their meeting, video shows Goodell’s elbow on Cutler from all different angles, proving that Wilfork may not have hit Cutler in the head after all. Undisputable is the fact that after Wilfork tackled Cutler, Cutler picked himself up and patted Wilfork on the helmet after the play. What seemed like foul play was soon debatable, and for this reason Goodell has chosen not to suspend Wilfork from the NFL.

Wilfork and his wife wrote a thank you letter to Goodell following the decision to fine him but not suspend him from the league. Last year, the Patriots tackle was fined a combined $35,000 for hits on various players.

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