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[TheBigKhunha]

Ridiculous roughing call on Drew Brees sack sets up Saints TD vs. 49ers

A textbook tackle ruled as roughing led to a likely four-point swing in the Saints' favor.

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[El Caliente]

To be fair it was a ridiculous penalty, which was made up for when Smith was knocked out of the game.

 

[Domeination]

It was a bad call, but we got called for a couple of ticky tacky roughing the passer penalties. The play in question was hardly the reason we won the game.

 

[zeetes]

highschool

 

[LetsGetWaffles]

Yea if any one of our guys had gotten called for that, many would be screaming bloody murder and blaming Goodell. It was a bad call that we were lucky to get.

 

[LiterOCola]

He didn’t initiate contact by lowering his head and did not land with his body on Brees. I don’t see why that was a penalty.

But at least the refs were calling it wrong both ways.

 

[Walter White]

It was a bad call just as the one they called on us.

 

[Saintslfc13]

I also think it was a soft penalty but to call it ridiculous, given the way it's been officiated for at least the last 3 seasons, is a stretch as well. I also thought Onyemata's roughing was a bit soft as well but again I've seen in flagged so I wasn't up in arms. Of the two Onyemata's was probably worse because there was some contact with the facemasks.

 

[sammymvpknight]

The bottom line is that you just can't get a good hit on a QB. That's today's NFL.

 

[Noble Saint]

This guy moved from Carolina to Colorado. Why do people move to Colorado nowadays? That would explain his article. He isn’t even clear if Brees was injured on that play or not. Must’ve been mid-rip on his bong.

 

[TheBigKhunha]

I thought it was called because of the rule established a few years ago that prohibits a wrapping up of a QB and falling full weight on top of him. This is an example of why the rule was put it. The guy wrapped up Drew and made a little effort to not fall directly on top of him, but still drove Drew's right side torso full weight into the ground. One may not agree with the rule, but it is the a rule. If the league wants to keep their top quarterbacks on the field, the penalty needs to be called. This writer must have been experiencing a slow day to write an article about this.

 

[GeneHansen]

I thought it was called because of the rule established a few years ago that prohibits a wrapping up of a QB and falling full weight on top of him. This is an example of why the rule was put it. The guy wrapped up Drew and made a little effort to not fall directly on top of him, but still drove Drew's right side torso full weight into the ground. One may not agree with the rule, but it is the a rule. If the league wants to keep their top quarterbacks on the field, the penalty needs to be called. This writer must have been experiencing a slow day to write an article about this.

This is exactly right. Both of his arms are completely wrapped around Drew when they hit the ground and his feet are in the air.
There was no attempt by the guy to get his arms down and keep some of his weight of Drew.
The problem is the color guy (Schlereth?) going on a about his weight being off to the side. It painted the picture that he didn’t land on Drew when he clearly did.

 

[ItFan]

It was textbook roughing the passer. The replay from the back shows how the DE falls with all of his body and weight on Brees. Now we know why they introduced this rule.

 

[HoustonGold]

This guy moved from Carolina to Colorado. Why do people move to Colorado nowadays? That would explain his article. He isn’t even clear if Brees was injured on that play or not. Must’ve been mid-rip on his bong.

Not everything in Colorado is going to pot. Scott Van Pelt (ESPN) did not like the call either.

 

[saint_drago]

This is exactly right. Both of his arms are completely wrapped around Drew when they hit the ground and his feet are in the air.
There was no attempt by the guy to get his arms down and keep some of his weight of Drew.
The problem is the color guy (Schlereth?) going on a about his weight being off to the side. It painted the picture that he didn’t land on Drew when he clearly did.

Oh plenty of him landed on Drew but this was hardly the most egregious penalty of it's kind. The defender landed sideways, not directly on top of Drew. Had that been called on us it would've been one of the worst calls of the year. That was a major call.

 

[HoustonGold]

USA Today

NFL fans rightly ripped the refs for this horrible roughing the passer call against the 49ers

C’mon, refs!

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