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Philosophically, I don't like fines on defensive players unless it's something horrendous. In the long run, giving them on-field penalties is probably more likely to change their behavior since it hacks off 52 teammates.
I think the fines came along because some of the penalties any more are so ticky-tack that the teammates don't get hacked off. They view the penalties as being dumb. So the league has to implement fines in addition to on-field penalties.
In this situation I agree with the on-field penalty, and even that is a quarter-second away from being unnecessary. But I don't think that a fine is warranted, even if it would help society by potentially diverting some of Von Miller's money from the criminal underground that he associates with.
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