It’s hard to find a worse officiated sporting event, let alone an NFL game, in world history than Sunday’s Lions-Packers game.
\n\nEven Fox Sports’ Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady, two men whose livelihoods depend on the NFL, couldn’t hide their shock and exasperation.
\n\nBrady was especially critical, as the future Hall of Famer set aside any bias as a former quarterback and explicitly called out the referees for fraudulent roughing-the-passer penalties.
\n\nLions quarterback Jared Goff completed an 18-yard pass to Sam LaPorta. A split second after he threw the ball, Packers defensive lineman Karl Brooks hit Goff. There was no helmet-to-helmet contact, and Brooks didn’t even put his body weight on Goff or drive him into the ground. Nonetheless, the referees flagged Brooks for roughing the passer, and the added penalty yards moved Detroit to the Green Bay 40.
\n\n“No, my goodness, what is that? There’s no way,” Brady said. “Brooks on the tackle kind of makes a great play. It’s a bang-bang play. He rolls off his body. It’s a great throw by Goff. That’s definitely not roughing the passer.”
\n\n“You’re just ripping through the line of scrimmage to try to get the quarterback on the ground. Look, I…
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