BJ Kissel destroys Dwight Freeney's "Mahomes abused the rules" narrative

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Originally Posted by DRM08

Mahomes has had more TD’s taken off the board from penalties than any QB in the last 6 years. If that’s special treatment, it sure doesn’t match up very well with what you’re suggesting.

Below is a list of Roughing the Passer flags for recent QB’s. Funny enough Carson Wentz is at the top of the list from his earlier years. Your guy Mayfield is slightly above Mahomes on the list. Josh Allen is very high on the list even though Buffalo fans whine about the refs a lot:

0.316 per game for Carson Wentz
0.315 per game for Josh Allen
0.288 per game for Jared Goff
0.266 per game for Ryan Tannehill
0.259 per game for Kirk Cousins
0.251 per game for Matt Ryan
0.250 per game for Deshaun Watson
0.241 per game for Jimmy Grapes
0.239 per game for Justin Fields
0.231 per game for Gardner Minshew
0.230 per game for Baker Mayfield
0.229 per game for Cam Newton
0.225 per game for Patrick Mahomes
0.220 per game for Russell Wilson
0.214 per game for Jacoby Brissett
0.203 per game for Justin Herbert
0.200 per game for Matt Stafford
0.197 per game for Dak Prescott
0.195 per game for Geno Smith
0.182 per game for Aaron Rodgers
0.182 per game for Joe Burrow
0.179 per game for Tua Tagovailoa
0.158 per game for Lamar Jackson
0.139 per game for Derek Carr

Derek Carr at the bottom of the list is interesting considering the bogus RTP on Chris Jones that caused the Arrowhead crowd to boo the refs for 30 minutes straight. Lol

Where did you find those stats?


That was pretty funny. Though in the moment I was pretty pissed they threw that flag against CJ. Complete BS. But the crowd reaction was purely priceless.


Tbf, I thought we were also talking about unnecessary roughness flags, like when the QB is running with the ball and gets a flag when he gets hit as he goes out of bounds or as he's sliding or whatever. And I wasn't thinking just about the total number of flags, but the circumstances/context of them, but whatever.

I think Pat gets a lot of protection, you may not. But I also think Qbs in general are overly protected in the new kinder gentler NFL.