A bystander rough call helps Tom Brady, causes controversy in Bucs-Falcons

The pirates retained possession and eventually managed to kneel around the clock for a period of 21-15 The win, but the howl arose from those who believed there was nothing wrong with the way Grady fired Jarrett of Atlanta’s Brady.

Among them was Scott Bewley, a former NFL executive He said On Twitter, “I’ve seen a lot of #NFL football games in my life, but someone will have to explain this callous call.”

The 57-year-old, who helped draft Brady while with the New England Patriots and whose layover later included a stint at the Falcons’ front office, shared a video of the play and added, “I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything quite like this.”

In the play, he chases Garrett Brady, who is fended off after moving to his right in the jeep to avoid a defensive intervention. Garrett Brady grabbed around his hips and hung the 45-year-old on the grass.

On Fox Sports TV, analyst Daryl Johnston criticized the call, saying “there was no intention of harming the quarterback there.” He added, “This is not in the spirit of Al Qaeda, the way it was created to protect the quarterback.”

In the NFL rule booka passage from the section on intimidating bystanders reads: “When dealing with a passerby who is defenseless (for example, during or after throwing a pass directly), the defensive player shall not throw it unnecessarily or violently or land on the top of it with all or most of the defender’s weight.”

Jerome Boger, Chief of Staff in Tampa He said After the match: “What I had was that the defender grabbed the center back while he was still in the pocket, and threw him to the ground unnecessarily. That’s what I was making my decision based on.”

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Boger was asked if his staff “took specific action to attempt to monitor” such treatment of quarterbacks, given the play’s similarity to the Miami Dolphins quarterback. Tua Tagoviloa was injured In the fourth week.

“No, not necessarily,” he replied via a news reporter.

“It was a terrible call,” Tony Dungey, NBC sports analyst and former Buccaneers coach, said. He said in a tweet. “They have to protect all the players, including the QBs. But Jarrett did nothing wrong. I think this call was an overreaction to Tua last week.”

Some who spoke online suggested that the identity of the sack victim – in this case, the NFL’s biggest star and arguably the greatest quarterback ever – influenced officials’ desire to whistle on the play.

“The Falcons got ROBBED,” former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III, now an ESPN analyst, He said on Twitter. “Hitting the QB with a force not equal to the fear of a passerby even if it was Tom Brady.”

ESPN’s Mike Greenberg said: chirp. “And there is absolutely no chance they would call him after any other quarterback.”

Tampa Bay coach Todd Bulls, in response to a question after the game whether he thought “other quarterbacks had received the same call,” said he had seen similar calls made in-game with Tagoviloa and the New York Giants-Green Bay Packers game earlier. Sunday.

“I think they’re starting to crack down on some things and going back,” Bowles told reporters, “so right now, the way they’re communicating, I think a lot of people have gotten that call.”

Atlanta coach Arthur Smith, who seemed upset by the sideline when the call was made, declined to criticize the referees after the game. Asked if he thought it was difficult, Smith said, “I’m not going to go into that. I haven’t seen the movie, and I have to worry about how to train that.”

Journalists followed up on the case, and Smith was asked if he thought his hawks got a “fair shake-up” from officials.

He replied, “I have to worry about what I can control, so I just need to figure out what I can do to better train these positions.”

Smith also declined to comment on whether Brady’s league status helped him get the call.

Many commentators call for roughing pointed out that, once before, the Hawks had not been flagged for a possible pass interference in a long pass attempt from Brady to wide receiver Scotty Miller fell incomplete. However, such plays, and the decisions officials must make about them, occur frequently in NFL games. The harsh call shocked more than a few extraordinarily unfair things to Garrett, not to mention particularly damaging to Atlanta’s hopes of winning on the road.

This was the second week in a row that Boger was criticized Critical penalty kick roughness passer. His crew flagged the Baltimore Ravens last week for a powerful late-quarter hit on Buffalo’s Josh Allen who helped the Bills win.

Tori Smith, the former NFL wide receiver, suggested Sunday that the NFL needs to make roughing calls reviewable. “This is out of control,” he said He said Online.

After the victory over the Hawks, Brady was asked about his thoughts on the play.

He said, “I don’t throw flags.”