NFL: An official’s penalty against an interference directed at Tom Brady gets people talking

Official Jerome Boger had to justify a penalty awarded to the Atlanta Falcons streak man who saved Tom Brady.

He said in fourth-quarter footage that Grady Jarrett “needlessly” threw the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback to the floor.

The match was important, as the Falcons now lost by six points with 3 minutes left. It looks like Atlanta snagged the Bucs with this sack in third, but the penalty allowed the Bucs to continue the streak and exhaust the seconds on the clock to win 21-15.

In the sequence, we see Jarrett surrounding Brady and rolling with him on the floor.

“What I have is a defensive player who grabs the center back while he’s in his pocket and puts it unnecessarily,” Boger said. This is what I decided on. »

Jarrett declined to speak to the media after the meeting. Falcons coach Arthur Smith also declined to comment. Brady’s teammate, goalkeeper Tristan Wirves, made a joke out of the quarterback’s age.

“I think Tom is who he is, he’s going to get that kind of call more often,” Wirves said of the 45-year-old quarterback.

Head coach Todd Bulls says play is increasingly being seen as a penalty since what happened to quarterback Dolphins Tua Tagovailoa.

“I saw this penalty play, I’ve seen it since I’ve just been injured. It was in the London daytime game,” Bowles said of the match between the Packers and the Giants.

For Falcons player Lorenzo Carter, he doesn’t understand that a handkerchief was thrown at this play. We’re just playing hard.”