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Washington Soccer Crew linebacker Jon Bostic has been fined $12,000 for a unhurried helmet-to-helmet hit on Dallas Cowboys quarterback Andy Dalton on Sunday, per ESPN’s Todd Archer.
Bostic used to be ejected from the sport after additional evaluation.
Dalton is at the 2nd within the concussion protocol and has been dominated out of his crew’s avenue sport in opposition to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. Rookie Ben DiNucci will birth at quarterback.
Washington head coach Ron Rivera talked about the hit with Pro Soccer Talk’s Mike Florio after his crew’s 25-3 take grasp of over Dallas: “I told him, Jon, you are a passe man, you would possibly perchance presumably well presumably presumably silent know higher. I did now not search for it and I used to be truly form of asking all people what befell. They acknowledged, ‘He hit him, Coach.’ And then when he bought ejected, that in fact surprised me.”
Rivera also acknowledged that he apologized to Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy.
Bostic used to be the area of fashioned criticism following the hit, which some felt used to be great of a suspension:
“If that is now now not a foremost suspension, I don’t know what is,” Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports wrote. “Right here’s upright a brutally pointless shot. And it has nothing to attain with keeping a QB. You endanger any player’s occupation with this form of thing.”
Soccer analyst Warren Moving did now now not judge the penalty used to be extreme ample in comments made after the comely info broke: “If this play handiest ends in a $12,000 comely and no suspension, as medieval because it sounds, there is now now not great disincentive for linebackers to continue KO’ing quarterbacks love this. Lovely sinister search by the NFL that here’s the most involving penalty for any such hit.”
Bostic, an eight-yr NFL passe, has 52 tackles, four quarterback hits and two sacks in seven video games this yr. He had a occupation-high 105 tackles in 2019.
The Washington Soccer Crew has a bye this week. Its subsequent scheduled sport is dwelling in opposition to the Novel York Giants on Nov. 8.
