Browns center JC Tretter was assessed a personal foul during the Week 4 fracas against the Baltimore Ravens in which Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey appeared to choke Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. after a play. Tretter tried to stop Humphrey from attacking his teammate.
On Friday, the Browns center admitted he got fined by the NFL for his action. The NFL typically does not release information on fines until Saturday, but Tretter declared in his press conference he was indeed fined “about $14,000” for his involvement.
And he’d do it again, too.
“We will appeal it and see where it stands,” Tretter said. “It is what it is. Like I said after it happened, I would not have changed anything I did.”
He’s not sure if the appeal will work, but Tretter doesn’t regret having his teammate’s back.
“When you got a guy mounted on top of another, choking him, if the answer is, ‘We wanted you to stand there’, then I will take the fine for that. That is not an answer I would work with. I did not throw a punch. I did not think I escalated the situation any more. I was there to de-escalate the situation. We will appeal it, and we will see what they say. I think common sense should hopefully rule, but you never really know about that so we will see.”
As for the Ravens producing a video that they believe proves Humphrey wasn’t actually choking Beckham?
“I did not watch their Zapruder film, but I did hear that,” Tretter said. “Obviously, they are trying to protect their guy, so I get it. I think the film speaks for itself. I think it is pretty obvious what was going on.”
