CBS’s Charlie Casserly reported that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be fined for talking to players during the lockout.

Pete Prisco reports Bucs officials said coach Raheem Morris made seven phone calls to players during the time when the NFL did not allow teams to have contact with their players. Prisco also reports that one of Morris’ calls was to congratulate tight end Kellen Winslow on the birth of his child.

It sure seems like the NFL is being petty on this. Winslow’s a guy who has played hard for Morris and, under normal circumstances, calling a player to congratulate him on something like this seems like the right thing to do.

Then again, the NFL made it abundantly clear that teams were not to have any contact with players during the lockout. Maybe the Bucs weren’t the only team breaking the rule. But they’re going to get fined for it.

The Bucs are saying the phone calls were short and some of them were under a minute. But Morris is an NFL coach who expects his players to follow his rules. He should have known better than to break league rules, even if it seemed like he was only bending them.