Add Mike Pereira and Dean Blandino to the lengthy list of people who say Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews’ roughing the passer penalty on Kirk Cousins was nonsense.
Both formerly served as the league’s head of officiating. Both now work for FOX as rules analysts. Both say the play wasn’t a penalty.
“Those are not fouls. We don’t like those as fouls,” Blandino said on their weekly show, Last Call.
Pereira said he believes the league is “creating penalties for contact and tackles… that don’t put the quarterback at risk of injury.