{"id":917,"date":"2012-11-14T18:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T23:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=917"},"modified":"2012-11-14T18:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T23:53:58","slug":"tim-dobbins-fined-30k-for-hit-that-concussed-jay-cutler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/11\/14\/tim-dobbins-fined-30k-for-hit-that-concussed-jay-cutler\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Dobbins fined $30k for hit that concussed Jay Cutler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P-wu6VwU6hI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The NFL has fined Houston Texans linebacker Tim Dobbins $30,000 for his hit that knocked Jay Cutler from Sunday nights game. Dobbins hit the Chicago Bears quarterback with a helmet-to-helmet blow that gave Cutler a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>Dobbins claims that the injury to Culter is not his fault.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did not hit him in his head, and actually, he ran into me,&#8221; Dobbins <a id=\"yui_3_5_0_1_1352936826812_3829\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/blog\/eye-on-football\/20948922\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> Comcast SportsNet Chicago. &#8220;I just felt like he was going to take off and run with the ball, and I thought he was past the line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video from the game has a different account. Either way Cutler is not expected to play in Monday&#8217;s game against San Fransisco. Oddly the 49ers may also be without their quarterback, Alex Smith, who is also dealing with a concussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL has fined Houston Texans linebacker Tim Dobbins $30,000 for his hit that knocked Jay Cutler from Sunday nights game. Dobbins hit the Chicago Bears quarterback with a helmet-to-helmet blow that gave Cutler a concussion. Dobbins claims that the injury to Culter is not his fault. &#8220;I did not hit him in his head, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[114,133],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-jay-cutler","8":"tag-tim-dobbins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}