Last week, Packers defensive star Clay Matthews blasted the NFL and said the league was getting soft with the way their calling “roughing the passer” this season.
Clay Matthews says something has to change with the way the NFL is calling penalties on defenders for hits in the QBs. pic.twitter.com/AkFLQ28RlB
— JosinaAnderson (@JosinaAnderson) September 23, 2018
Obviously I don’t agree wit it again. I understand the spirit of the rule but when you have a hit like that, That’s a football play … Unfortunately the league is going in a direction that a lot of people don’t like. You know I think they’re getting soft, the only thing they do hard is levy fines on guys like me who play the game hard. “I respect the rule, I just think they’re going in the wrong direction with this,
During today’s Raiders-Browns game, football fans were once again up in arms when Arden Key was penalized for barely touching Baker Mayfield.
This has to be the absolute worst roughing the passer call of all time pic.twitter.com/hV0h3nXoYj
— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) September 30, 2018
They called this roughing the passer. No words. pic.twitter.com/SUuxCxd63A
— NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) September 30, 2018
They just called the worst roughing the passer penalty I have ever seen in my life. And considered how this season has gone, that is saying something. Arden Key was the latest victim.#RaiderNation
— Jason Dumas (@JDumasReports) September 30, 2018
hang flags from the QBs waist and be done with it
— Tony Lloyd (@cincylloyd) September 30, 2018
Arden Key getting called for roughing Baker Mayfield might be the stupidest call in NFL history. #CLEvsOAK
— George Avant (@35O125go) September 30, 2018
Is football really going to be that soft now a days? Smh.
— 816 (@siccottic) September 30, 2018
@NFL is sooooooooft pic.twitter.com/n2anNuq1TV
— Brizzy D (@Brizzyd21) September 30, 2018
Cause right now the nfl is ultra soft at this rate nba and soccer are going to catch up even more pic.twitter.com/8erY6RKHSh
— Brizzy D (@Brizzyd21) September 30, 2018