{"id":26410,"date":"2014-11-27T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nfl-fines-lions-c-raiola-10k\/"},"modified":"2014-11-27T00:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T00:23:00","slug":"nfl-fines-lions-c-raiola-10k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nfl-fines-lions-c-raiola-10k\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL fines Lions C Raiola $10K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Detroit Lions center Dominic Raiola was fined $10,000 by the NFL this week for striking a New England player in the back of the helmet in the final minute of Sunday&#8217;s 34-9 loss to the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>NFL spokesman Michael Signora said Wednesday Raiola was fined for unnecessary roughness for violating a rule prohibiting &#8220;striking, swinging at, or clubbing the head, neck, or face of an opponent&#8221; with your wrist, arm, elbow or hand.<\/p>\n<p>Raiola swung at rushing Patriots defensive lineman Zach Moore on a 3rd-and-9 pass play, hitting him in the back of the helmet and knocking him to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Signora said Raiola was not fined for diving at Moore&#8217;s legs on the final snap of the game as the Lions kneeled to run out the clock<\/p>\n<p>Raiola drew criticism for the attempted cut block and for implying he did it because the Patriots scored a late touchdown in a rout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Detroit Lions center Dominic Raiola was fined $10,000 by the NFL this week for striking a New England player in the back of the helmet in the final minute of Sunday&#8217;s 34-9 loss to the Patriots. NFL spokesman Michael Signora said Wednesday Raiola was fined for unnecessary roughness for violating a rule prohibiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":["post-26410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-lions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}