Jay Cutler was fined $10,000 for taunting, according to a league source. He flipped the ball at Vikings cornerback A.J. Jefferson and was flagged late in the first quarter.
Culter joined the list of players fined following last Sunday’s Bears-Vikings game.
Eric Weems told the Tribune he was fined $7,875 for striking Jefferson late on the play immediately before Cutler taunted Jefferson.
Jefferson was flagged for unnecessary roughness on the play, but Weems wasn’t. Weems plans to appeal the fine.
"Heck yeah, I’m going to appeal it,’’ he said Friday. "I can’t just give it to them. I’ve got to appeal. They said I hit the guy late, which it was during the play.
"Of course I’m going to contest that once I get the video from them. I don’t see how I hit the guy late. And I didn’t get a penalty, either. So I don’t see how that works.’’
On Monday, Cutler addressed the flipping incident on WMVP-AM 1000. "I've got to be smarter than that," he said. "If anyone else on offense had done that I would have probably yelled at him like it can't happen here. I can't do it again obviously."
Besides Cutler and Weems, linebacker Brian Urlacher was fined $15,750 for a horse-collar tackle on Adrian Peterson while Henry Melton was fined $7,875 for grabbing Peterson’s facemask. Both players said they intend to appeal.
Vikings defensive end Jared Allen was fined $21,000 for his vicious hit on Bears right guard Lance Louis. The end result was Louis tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, ending his season.
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