Roughing the Passer: Ravens-Pats Game

[Triple Threat]

Anyone see the two atrocious roughing the passer calls that went against the Ravens? One of them, the Raven didn't even touch Brady..if it was ANY other QB than Brady, there would be no flag |lie|

But the NFL needs to protect the Golden Boy by giving him anything he wants..agree with Ray Lewis about the embarrassment of these calls, which led to New England scores..

May as well be flag football..

[Srotagtbs]

I only saw 1 of the calls in question- the one where he roughed the passer by missing him. Sort of contradicts the name of the penalty if he doesn't touch him.

I'm not sure what the other one was, but I thought I heard it had something to do with hands to the face. If that was the case no problem with that call.

But I'm ALWAYS hesitant to blame refs. I didn't see ND have any trouble stopping Warshington yesterday after the refs game UW a chance to win on the half yard line (I still think the UW runner was in the End Zone with 6 minutes to go, but they still had 4 chances to punch it in and still couldn't do it).

Even if those 2 penalties led to 14 points, why are the explanations for the other 13 points given up? You don't give up those 13 they win (including 3 after the opening kick-off fumble). No fumble, maybe = points for Baltimore. If Clayton learns to catch instead of cowering they would have had a chance to win. Or Flacco throwing an INT in the red zone. Too many other things usually happen for me to blame the refs for losing a game. The Ravens lost this game, not the refs.