Jets fine Bart Scott $10K for obscene gesture

NEW YORK - The Jets have fined linebacker Bart Scott $10,000 for an obscene gesture he made toward a photographer in the team's locker room Monday.

After gathering items from his locker at the team's facility in Florham Park, N.J., Scott walked past reporters and then turned, stuck out his middle finger and used an expletive while telling a photographer to get the camera out of his face.

The team says in a statement announcing the fine Thursday that Scott's "actions were inappropriate and unacceptable."

It is uncertain whether Scott, who's owed $4 million in guarantees next season, will be back with the Jets next season.

Coach Rex Ryan was fined $75,000 by the NFL in November for using profanity while angrily responding to a fan at halftime of a home game.

On Wednesday, Jets rookie quarterback Greg McElroy said there was a "corrupt mindset" in the locker-room during a disappointing season, and the team included some "extremely selfish individuals."

The Jets' seventh-round pick out of Alabama told a Birmingham radio station that New York's locker-room was "definitely not a fun place to be, I can assure you." McElroy missed the season with a thumb injury, but was around the team throughout as it finished 8-8 and failed to make the playoffs.

McElroy told the station that some players cared only about individual achievements rather than wins or losses.

He didn't single out any players, but the comments came on the heels of Santonio Holmes being benched in the regular-season finale for arguing in the huddle.