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Adam Jones fined $35,000 for incident with Cooper, plans to appeal

Adam Jones was fined $35,000 for his helmet slamming incident with Amari Cooper and, according to reports from those who spoke to him this morning, he plans to appeal.

Adam Jones: "Go ahead. Ask me! Yeah, I got fined. 35K. Way too much for a football play. I'll appeal." #Bengals @FOX19

— Jeremy Rauch (@FOX19Jeremy) September 16, 2015

A football play? I don’t know about that one. Ripping off a helmet and slamming a guy’s head on it doesn’t seem like a football play. And it sure doesn’t sounds like he thinks there’s any problem with what he did.