Jared Allen said he's not going to change the way he plays despite being summoned to the NFL office and given another hefty fine for his hit on Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers two weeks ago.

The league fined the Vikings defensive end $25,000 after meeting with him and Vikings officials in New York on Tuesday. Allen avoided a suspension, but he received his third fine of the season, pushing his total to $80,000.

Allen said he appreciated the opportunity to tell his side of the story, but he insisted he is not a dirty player and won't alter his approach. He said the meeting was "just a culmination of the last few weeks."

"They wanted to see where my mind was at and gave them an opportunity to present their case," he said. "We presented our case. Obviously they felt I wasn't a danger on the field and that's what we're going with.

"I will play football the way I play football and that's the way it is. I'm not a dirty player. I never have been. I play hard football and that's the bottom line. Same thing I told them."

The league fined Allen $50,000 for two hits on Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub, who suffered a knee injury on one of them. Allen also received a $5,000 fine for jumping on a pile against Chicago on Oct. 19.

The league called Allen to its offices after his hit on Rodgers. Allen was accompanied by Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier; his agent, Ken Harris; and Kevin Warren, the team's vice president of legal affairs and chief administrative officer.

Allen was grateful Frazier spoke on his behalf. "When coach goes to bat for you, sticks up for you, it means a lot to you," he said. "And so I definitely think it helped because they saw an organization that was standing behind me."

Allen also found support in former Vikings standouts Jim Marshall and John Randle. Both were at Winter Park on Wednesday and said they think the NFL has gone too far in its crackdown on questionable hits.

"I think it's crazy," Marshall said. "I think it's just absolutely ridiculous. Football is a rough game. They've pretty much taken the quarterback with the protection that he's got, you can't put your hands on him, you can't touch him. If you're in the air and he gets the ball off and you happen to hit him, they want to fine you. You can't play all-out if you're doing those kinds of things. They've got too many rules now."

Said Randle: "The game is about contact. If you want to protect your quarterback, keep him on the sideline. It's 11 men. He's part of the game. ... There are not a lot of rules that protect defensive linemen, DBs or linebackers. It's a brutal game. It's a game where people are going to get hurt. That's why teams have a good starting quarterback and good backups."

Even Rodgers said Wednesday that he didn't think Allen was trying to hurt him, telling reporters in Green Bay after practice Wednesday: "I respect Jared Allen. I don't think that was a malicious hit at all. We actually joked about it afterwards. I know he was fined for the Schaub hit as well. In no way to I think it was intentional or did he want to hurt me. But the rules are the rules, and that's about all I'm going to say."

Marshall told Allen, who did not practice because of a shoulder injury, to keep his same approach.

"He's doing such a fine job," Marshall said. "He's just one hell of a football player. I really admire him."