During the 2022 season as well as other seasons before it, the NFL has received a tom of criticism regarding their roughing-the-passer rules, and in particular how questionably it has been enforced by NFL officials. Some quarterbacks are barely being touched as the flag goes flying to punish a defense for simply making football plays.
Reports have emerged that one NFL team is pushing for the league to make a significant change to the current ruling of roughing the passer.
One team has submitted a proposal for roughing the passer calls to become reviewable by instant replay.
This may feel like hope for something to change, but fans shouldn’t think anything will happen so soon, especially for the upcoming season.
NFL.com’s Judy Battista reported on Sunday that the committee looked at 80 roughing-the-passer calls throughout this past season and only found 3 calls that were “questionable”.
That is quite hard to believe.
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Basically, nothing will be changing anytime soon if at all.
On Monday, the committee will discuss the proposal, but it isn’t likely to gain much steam from there.
Quarterbacks are the money makers of the league and the NFL won’t risk a bunch of them getting hurt with brutal hits just because fans do not like the penalty. This is the new NFL where QB’s will be protected at all costs.
The days of delivering big hits to them are over and won’t soon return.
