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Traina Thoughts: You Can Complain All You Want, But The NFL Is All In On New Roughing-The-Passer Rule

1. The NFL had a fun and wild day yesterday thanks to a lot of upsets, but there's still a bad taste in everyone's mouth because of absurd roughing-the-passer penalties.

Packers linebacker Clay Matthews has become the poster boy for the new rule, getting flagged for the infraction yesterday for the third time in three games. Before this season, Matthews has gotten four roughing-the-passer penalties in in nine years.

Here's the thing, though: The NFL doesn't care about the outrage. Howie Long took the league to task on FOX's postgame show yesterday, saying the rule seems completely "subjective.