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Associated Press
The NFL plans to sermon roughing-the-passer penalties amid outrage implicit 2 disputed calls successful Week 5, a idiosyncratic with nonstop cognition of the substance told The Associated Press.
The person, speaking connected information of anonymity due to the fact that the conversations are internal, said changes to the regularisation are not expected during the season. The idiosyncratic besides said the league has not fixed officials a directive to stress roughing calls pursuing Dolphins backmost Tua Tagovailoa's concussion.
NFL owners volition conscionable successful New York adjacent week. The league's Competition Committee -- comprised of six squad owners/executives and 4 caput coaches -- makes astir of the recommendations for regularisation changes. Teams tin besides suggest regularisation changes to beryllium voted connected by owners, which necessitate 24 votes to pass.
One idea, suggested by Chiefs antiaircraft tackle Chris Jones connected Monday nighttime after helium was flagged, mightiness beryllium to let video reappraisal of roughing calls.
Protecting quarterbacks is simply a precedence for owners, who wage large bucks for the faces of their franchises. Twenty-five QBs are making astatine slightest $25 cardinal this season.
The questionable telephone against Jones -- the 2nd successful 2 days -- astir outgo Kansas City successful its 30-29 comeback triumph implicit the Las Vegas Raiders.
The Chiefs had conscionable scored to trim their shortage to 17-7 erstwhile Jones stripped Raiders backmost Derek Carr from down conscionable earlier halftime. The Pro Bowl antiaircraft tackle landed connected Carr portion besides coming up with the shot -- replays showed it was intelligibly escaped and that Jones cleanly recovered -- but referee Carl Cheffers threw a emblem for roughing the passer.
"The backmost is successful the pouch and he's successful a passing posture. He gets afloat extortion of each the aspects of what we springiness the backmost successful a passing posture," Cheffers told a excavation newsman aft the game. "My ruling was the defender landed connected him with afloat assemblage weight. The backmost is protected from being tackled with afloat assemblage weight."
On Sunday, Falcons antiaircraft tackle Grady Jarrett was flagged by referee Jerome Boger for a seemingly harmless sack connected Tom Brady. The punishment gave the Buccaneers a archetypal down and allowed them to tally retired the timepiece connected a 21-15 victory.
Boger made a akin captious telephone precocious successful the 4th fourth of the Ravens-Bills crippled a week earlier connected a play that galore besides thought didn't to warrant a flag.
Boger called different borderline roughing punishment successful the Falcons-Buccaneers crippled erstwhile Vita Vea was pushed into Atlanta backmost Marcus Mariota.
Roughing the passer is the lone regularisation wherever referees are instructed to err connected the broadside of caution.
The NFL rulebook notes: "When successful uncertainty astir a roughness telephone oregon perchance unsafe maneuver against the quarterback, the referee should ever telephone roughing the passer."
Jones, who has been flagged for roughing the passer 9 times successful his career, has a solution.
"We've got to beryllium capable to reappraisal it successful the booth, you cognize what I mean?" Jones said. "I deliberation that's the adjacent measurement for the NFL arsenic a whole. If we're going to telephone it a punishment astatine that precocious (of rate), past we've got to beryllium capable to reappraisal it and marque sure, due to the fact that sometimes looks tin beryllium deceiving."
The league already went down that road, making walk interference reviewable for 1 play aft an egregious missed foul precocious successful the 4th fourth successful the 2019 NFC title outgo the New Orleans Saints a travel to the Super Bowl.
The experimentation failed miserably and the regularisation wasn't considered the adjacent year.
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