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Just wondering here, Eagle, but uh, unless your players WANT to be suspended for the rest of the year and/or fined into bankruptcy for WILLING injurying a player I don't think this will happen.

There is no good reason for or against this.

"Don't know if anyone else was listening to the Afternoon Blitz on Sirius radio today when Terrance Newman was interviewed but he said he is prepared to pay a $15,000 to $25,000 fine as revenge against Kitna for comments he made after last season's win over Dallas. He said he better look out if he lines up outside on a blitz and has the money to cover the fine for the hit. Schein and Wilcox continued to bait him for the whole interview and he continued to express that the defense is gunning for Kitna big time. I think the NFL should sit Newman for the game myself and think this kind of threats for serious injury and fineable hits is ridiculous. He said he is putting Kitna's quotes on everyones locker and definitely indicated that the defense would be gunning for him. I've never before heard an NFL player so expressly indicate that he is planning on hurting another player and if anyone seriously hurts Kitna the whole Dallas team should be penalized like never before. And they thought Green Bay putting bounties was a problem, this is over the top."

Taken from a Lions message board. Sounds like they're gunning for Kitna, Ben.

Eagle, I still don't think you can predict such an injury...I'll agree that Newman will probably be looking to lay a good hit on him (probably a couple of them), but I REALLY don't think he'll go out of his way to injury (seriously or otherwise) Jon Kitna.

Um, if he purposefully makes an illegal hit, tackle, etc and injures him he'll (like I said) probably be suspended or fined into bankruptcy.

Nah. The standard fine for an intentional helmet to helmet hit on a QB is $15k and no suspension, though the NFL has been instructing officials to eject the player for the rest of that game if it's blatent.

^Fair enough.

But still, with all this pregame chatter about how Newman is INTENTIONALLY going to try to take him out, don't think that Goodell wouldn't be willing to pull a rest of the year suspension or a HUGE fine.

LOL! This is kind of a dumb topic...I predict Tom Brady will blow out his arm next week!!!!

The last thing Kitna needs to worry about is little Terrance Newman hitting him. He'd better be more worried about Ware and Ellis who will be in his face all game long along with Bradie James (who has his own vendetta against Kitna) and little known Nate Jones (the guy who knocked Favre out of the game last week) who is a beast on blitz packages.

I'm not too worried about Newmans comments. I don't see him blitzing much in this game, he'll be too busy in coverage against 5 receiver sets.

No way I can vote on a prediction of injury. Wouldn't be surprised if it happened just because of how dominant the Cowboys pass rush has been of late and how porous the Lions protection is, but you never want to see any player get hurt seriously.

Vote to Ben.

theyll make it look like an accident
but ya its gona happen

CCC, I understand that it is MORE than just Newman who is out to get Kitna (both publicly and privately), and so I refer to the whole team...

Ben, he couldn't have said anything, the new Fa-ge-t rules say, "If you have a life, you can't argue"

It is mentally insane...

After 24 Hours, it thinks you fell off the face of the Earth...

I know...not my fault...

I know that, I am just P.Oed at the new rule...