{"id":8281,"date":"2013-11-20T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/49ers-brooks-fined-for-hit-on-brees\/"},"modified":"2013-11-20T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T15:47:00","slug":"49ers-brooks-fined-for-hit-on-brees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/49ers-brooks-fined-for-hit-on-brees\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers&#8217; Brooks fined for hit on Brees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The NFL has fined San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks $15,750 for an illegal hit on New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees during Sunday&#8217;s game against the Saints.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Williams, Brooks&#8217; agent, confirmed the fine to the Sacramento Bee and stated that his client is likely to appeal the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks was assessed a personal foul for striking Brees in the neck during the fourth quarter in what turned out to be a pivotal play, as Brees fumbled and the 49ers&#8217; Patrick Willis recovered before the turnover was negated due to the penalty.<\/p>\n<p>With the drive extended, the Saints went on to tie the contest at 20-20 on a Garrett Hartley field goal. New Orleans eventually won 23-20 in overtime after Hartley delivered a 31-yard field goal in extra time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The NFL has fined San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks $15,750 for an illegal hit on New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees during Sunday&#8217;s game against the Saints. Greg Williams, Brooks&#8217; agent, confirmed the fine to the Sacramento Bee and stated that his client is likely to appeal the verdict. Brooks was assessed a [&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":[10,9,8],"class_list":["post-8281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-49ers","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281","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=8281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}