Dean Blandino, the NFL’s VP of officiating, confirmed Terrell Suggs’ assertion that his hit on Sam Bradford in Week 2 was completely legal.
Suggs received a 15-yard roughing-the-passer penalty on the play and incurred the wrath of many who believed it was a dirty play, including Bradford.
Bradford says he thinks Suggs went at his knees intentionally. #Eagles
— Eliot Shorr-Parks (@EliotShorrParks) August 23, 2015
Suggs contended all along that since Bradford was executing a read-option play he was clearly a runner, in which case the roughing-the-passer rule doesn’t apply.