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Rules on hitting QB filled with holes

Jerome Boger, despite the lack of support from the NFL's vice president of officiating, was not wrong.

The referee in the Eagles' preseason game Saturday against Baltimore watched a play unfold in front of him and decided it did not pass the smell test, so he reached for his yellow flag and assessed a 15-yard penalty on Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs.

Boger, who is in his 12th season as an NFL official and his 10th as a referee, initially announced that Suggs was guilty of roughing the passer. He was wrong about that, of course, because Eagles quarterback Sam Bradford never threw a pass.