Troy Aikman is outraged and wants the NFL to take the dresses off and fix roughing the passer penalty, and according to TPS;
The NFL has had a rough time deciding roughing the passer penalties with the new rules designed to protect quarterbacks and it got taken to another level in Week 5 of the 2022 season.
From Grady Jarrett on Tom Brady to tonight where we saw Chris Jones and Derek Carr on Monday Night Football.
The call was so bad that Troy Aikman told the NFL to take their dresses off when they address the rule in th eoffseason.
Jones was called for roughing the passer because his weight landed on Carr, but what was he supposed to do in that situation? Momentum was going to take him down with Carr.
You cannot expect a defender to try and fight gravity. It’s a losing battle.
Basically, the NFL has gotten SOFT.
The NFL’s competition committee plans to discuss roughing the passer penalties after the season amid outrage over two disputed calls in Week 5, a member of the committee who wishes to remain anonymous told ESPN’s Ed Werder.
The Associated Press, which reported earlier Tuesday that the topic also will be discussed next week when NFL owners meet in New York but that the league was not planning in-season rule changes, said the NFL has not given officials a directive to emphasize roughing calls following Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s concussion.
The NFL’s competition committee — composed of six team owners/executives and four head coaches — makes most of the recommendations for rule changes. Teams can also propose rule changes, which require 24 votes to pass, to be voted on by owners.
“Well, the hard part is that because we have no real standard for what roughing the passer looks like, we will always get a wide range of what a referee decides is and isn’t a foul,” the committee member told Werder. “The only way to correct that is to have a ‘review process’ for personal fouls. We may even have to do that for OPI (offensive pass interference) and DPI. These are huge fouls that impact and can change the game when the foul is or isn’t called. I don’t know if the powers that be would want that ‘review process’ for personal fouls or not, though.”
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