Roughing the passer?????? - New England Patriots Forums

signbabybrady · 09-20-2009, 04:54 PM

The NFL is killing football for me. I'll never quit but WTF.

Last week we hit the QB with the ball twice and get flagged for it. BS

This week Brady gets hit 10+ times didn't get sacked because the ball was out of his hand and not one call. Maybe only one or two were late but I was expecting one or two to draw flags and I hate sitting there hopinng for flags but when you see flags for hitting the QB when he has the ball you are left expecting them when he doesn't. Then on the 3rd and 3 at the end of the game it looked like AD pulled up scared to get a penalty that would of ended the game. While I was typing this a roughing the passer was called in the charger game that was exactly like 3 or 4 of the Brady hits today.

no consistancey is one gripe but my real gripe is that they have forced me to want these calls because they get called against us and I hate watching a game like that.

PatsFanSince74 · 09-20-2009, 04:56 PM

I didn't see any hits on Brady that I thought were roughing; there was one that was close where it looked like he was thrown to the ground, but the replay showed it was a follow-through on a clean hit and not a body slam.

***BradyFTW!*** · 09-20-2009, 04:56 PM

I agree with the way that it was called this week, but the inconsistency from last week bugs me too. I'd just like for these hits to be consistently not flagged.

Bill B. · 09-20-2009, 04:58 PM

Maybe we should pull a Polian and send a letter to Goodell? I would have thought that with all the pregame talk by the Jets that we would have got at least one of those calls. Brady did get slammed a couple of times when the ball was well out of his hands. No consistencey.

cmasspatsfan · 09-20-2009, 04:59 PM

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I agree with the way that it was called this week, but the inconsistency from last week bugs me too. I'd just like for these hits to be consistently not flagged.

It was the first game last week for refs too and they were probably told to keep on eye on these things, new rule and all. As time goes on hopefully they'll be more consistent.

signbabybrady · 09-20-2009, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by PatsFanSince74

I didn't see any hits on Brady that I thought were roughing; there was one that was close where it looked like he was thrown to the ground, but the replay showed it was a follow-through on a clean hit and not a body slam.

In my normal opinion I would agree but when I see sh1tty calls vs us I am left expecting them that was more my gripe than anything as I said of the 10+ hits only maybe one or two could have been calls. My real gripe is that they have forced me to watch the game thru these googles.

Gunnails · 09-20-2009, 05:05 PM

The Oline should of protected him better, Jets played a clean game.

upstater1 · 09-20-2009, 05:07 PM

I would not have been surprised to see a penalty on that hit on Brady, given what we've seen so far this year.

Message to the Jets fan: there are no more clean hits to the QB after he releases the ball. Have you not been watching games this year?

One thing the refs did miss though is roughing the kicker. How in the world did they miss that one?

***convertedpatsfan*** · 09-20-2009, 05:07 PM

Agreed, I'd like to see a bit more consistency on this call, especially considering it's a major penalty.

But I can't really criticize the crew today for not calling it. It'd be awful if they only called it on the Pats, but considering the Pats weren't really interested in hitting the QB, we couldn't really compare.

***fgssand*** · 09-20-2009, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by signbabybrady

In my normal opinion I would agree but when I see sh1tty calls vs us I am left expecting them that was more my gripe than anything as I said of the 10+ hits only maybe one or two could have been calls. My real gripe is that they have forced me to watch the game thru these googles.

I know exactly what you are saying........

If you look at all the action throughout the league as I do with NFL ticket - it is the inconsistency of the way the roughing the passer penalty is called. I really think they players have no clue anymore what is or isn;t other than the blatant.