PreSeason NFL Fine Blotter Update: An interesting one here, because it might tell you something!!

Perusing Twitter for some early Fine Friday material before I go on my daily rounds, I found THIS...

#Packers safety Kentrell Brice said he was fined $20,000 in the preseason for an unpenalized hit on Raiders QB Connor Cook. League told him after the game he roughed the passer. He said it would’ve been a $30,000 fine if he hit Vikings WR Adam Thielen to break up game-tying TD.

— Ryan Wood (@ByRyanWood) September 21, 2018

Wood is a beat writer for the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

So, I guess, first:

• Green Bay Packers:  Kentrell Brice:  $20,054 for Roughing the Passer

But it's the second part of this that makes me wonder what the Hell is going on here.

I'm convinced, from the Clay Matthews situation (for which his fine should be announced today!), that the NFL was manipulating/rigging overtime here.

I'm seeing snark in the comments like:  "Well, good thing he just let him score."

I believe what Brice may be implicating here is that he was told that, if he broke up this play, he would be FINED for doing so!  That it would've been a Defenseless Player situation for him to break up the tying touchdown!

How would he say this in that context if he wasn't TOLD, on a pre-existing basis, not to do so?

How would he say this if it wasn't clear that any attempt to prevent overtime would not be financially punished?

You don't need to lay someone out in that context.  The play is clear, if he drills the guy, he probably IS fined.  But you can break that up without laying someone out.