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Doug Farrar

Referee Jerome Boger fails to understand roughing the passer… again

NFL officials are not very good at differentiating between what is roughing the passer and what is not roughing the passer. Those officials are not helped by the league’s rulebook, which gives the parameters of the penalty, and then tells officials to do this:

When in doubt about a roughness call or potentially dangerous tactic against the passer, the Referee should always call roughing the passer.

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