NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent said that the league supports its referees’ judgment on two controversial roughing-the-passer calls from Week 5.
Grady Jarrett of the Atlanta Falcons sacks Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the fourth quarter on Oct. 9, 2022.Getty Images
Jarrett was called for the penalty for throwing Brady to the ground “unnecessarily,” which is prohibited by the roughing-the-passer rule, and Jones was penalized for falling on Carr with his entire body weight, also prohibited by the rule. Both calls on seemingly innocuous hits caught flak from fans because of the importance of the plays on which they occurred. In Jarrett’s case, he made a sack on a third down late in the fourth quarter of a one-score game, and if not called, the Falcons would have gotten another possession to try and win the game. The Bucs were given an automatic first down and they used their new set of downs to run out the clock.
Jones was called for roughing Carr late in the second quarter and on the play, stripped the football from Carr and recovered it in Raiders territory. Instead of giving the Chiefs an opportunity to score again before halftime, it gave the Raiders a first down in Kansas City territory and resulted in a Vegas field goal.
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