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Chase Young received roughing the passer penalty for ridiculously soft hit
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When things aren’t going your way, sometimes the bad things seem to just keep happening. For the Washington Football Team defense, today was no different.
On a 4th down play for the Atlanta Falcons during their game with Washington on Sunday, Washington defensive end Chase Young was tagged with a ridiculous roughing the passer call after making a hit (or more of a passing glance) on Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan.
This is a terrible roughing the passer call on Chase Young. Young should have just made a proper tackle attempt, in fairness, but it was never roughing the passer pic.twitter.com/wOdpgJv22c
— Mark Bullock (@MarkBullockNFL) October 3, 2021
The play resulted in a first down for the Falcons, and they went down to score on the drive rather than giving Washington the ball around mid-field.
Protecting the quarterback is a focus of many of the rules these days, in both college and the NFL, but there have seriously been harder hits during high school PE classes that haven’t resulted in any punishment — the officiating needs to get better.
Scott Schultz covers Michigan State Football, along with Breaking News for B1G Football & Basketball for Saturday Tradition. He also serves as an Automotive News Editor & Writer, and Softball Writer elsewhere on the web. Follow him on Twitter @SRSchultz.