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Pats NT Vince Wilfork was fined $15,000 by the NFL Friday for an incident last Saturday when Wilfork poked his fingers through the facemask of Giants RB Brandon Jacobs. Wilfork was not penalized on the play because referees didn’t see it but television cameras caught it immediately.

Wilfork explained his role in the incident on his website:

“I have received a number of questions about it that just assume I was trying to poke him in the eye. It was nothing more than them doing trash talking and in the heat of the moment I pointed my finger in his face. I did not make contact with his eye or anything like that. After that it was over, on the field emotions are high there were several bumps amongst players and trash talking the whole game. It was one of the biggest games of the season and we all had a lot of emotion in the game. When things like that happen it is all heat of the moment and once the moment is gone it is over. There are no hard feelings and I really think the commentators did a great job of blowing it up. When the game was over we all said our byes and that was that.”

There were some who thought Wilfork could possibly receive a one game suspension because of the action.

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