I'd love to see this stat breakdown myself. I've looked but I haven't been able to find anywhere that even lists the stats for Quarterback Hits, let alone something like the number of penalties per game.
Anyone know of where they can be found?
I'd bet my left foot that a comparison of RTP calls for Brady vs hits he takes will be unremarkable except in it being in the middle of the pack.
I find it funny that two of the most dangerous hardest Quarterbacks to tackle (Vick and Rothlesburger) are whining they receive less RTP calls than others.
You think there might be a reason for that?
And wasn't this the RTP call that the previous generation of old-school whiners used as "proof" that the refs are coddling the marquee quarterbacks?
Ngata: I love hitting Brady...he always complains - CBSSports.com
Am I really that much of a homer than I can't look at this hit objectively and say "Yeah, okay. I see it now. You're right. Tom Brady is over-protected"?
Honestly? The best I can do is look at this play and say "Okay, maybe (maybe) it wasn't intentional".
But maybe, like me, the ref's remember Suggs history of bounty talk and hitting like it really is his purpose to inflict bodily damage that has maybe, just maybe lost him some of the benefit of the doubt when it comes to whether to throw a flag or not.
Anyway, I'd love to see some statistics on the number of RTP calls Brady gets per hit.
Since the articles comparing Brady's RTP calls per Pass Attempt do not validate the whiners unproven, blanket statement that Brady receives unfair protection (in the way of RTP calls), they have begun demanding even narrower margins of proof... hence this demand to see how many RTP calls per hit (because, as we've seen calls per throw don't show anything unusual).
And I'm sorry, the burden of proof should be on the idiots making these asinine statements and not on us to disprove them.
Shame it doesn't work that way.
