Roughing The Passer Rule Needs To Change: Why Tom Brady Needs to Stop Complaints

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Published: October 5, 2009

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... has always been a tough game. There's a reason there are only 16 games in an NFL season. Players need time to recover from being beaten up for 60-minutes every week.

But, if breathing too hard on a quarterback is a penalty now then do they really need a week to recover?

For those that haven't seen the plays in the Patriots-Ravens game on Sunday, there were two very questionable roughing-the-passer calls.

Terrell Suggs barely touched Tom Brady's leg and Brady started complaining like Tonya Harding hired someone to come after him.

The second was when Haloti Ngata grazed Brady's helmet. Maybe Brady was worried Ngata would mess up his hair because again Brady begged for a flag to be thrown.

Now I'm all for protecting the quarterback, if your an offensive lineman.

I understand that quarterbacks have to stand in there and take hits when they are basically defenseless. And roughing-the-passer should absolutely be called when a quarterback is hi...

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