Angry NFL Fans React To New Roughing The Passer Rule Called In Bears-Chiefs Preseason Game

This offseason the NFL implemented several new rules to prevent injuries and to make the game safer.

One of the new rules implemented dubbed the “Aaron Rodgers Rule,” because it was put into place to prevent the injury that occurred when Anthony Barr drove into the Packers QB after a tackle last season has angered plenty of NFL fans this offseason.

Here’s the rule via the NFL officiating handbook.

A rushing defender is prohibited from committing such intimidating and punishing acts as “stuffing” a passer into the ground or unnecessarily wrestling or driving him down after the passer has thrown the ball, even if the rusher makes his initial contact with the passer within the one-step limitation provided for in (a) above. When tackling a passer who is in a defenseless posture (e.g., during or just after throwing a pass), a defensive player must not unnecessarily or violently throw him down or land on top of him with all or most of the defender’s weight. Instead, the defensive player must strive to wrap up the passer with the defensive player’s arms and not land on the passer with all or most of his body weight.

During today’s Chiefs-Bears preseason game, Chiefs pass rusher Tanoh Kpassagnon sacked Bears quarterback Chase Daniels with a perferct form tackle but was flagged for roughing the passer because refs apparently believed Kpassagnon landed on Daniel with the weight of his body.

This of course pissed off NFL fans who reacted on Twitter with several angry tweets directed at the NFL.

https://twitter.com/megablastX/status/1033420398778638336

https://twitter.com/dniederhauser1/status/1033419506008436736

https://twitter.com/jettaboi/status/1033422061451046912