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The last two men who served as the NFL’s head of officiating have come out strongly against the league’s emphasis on roughing the quarterback, in particular the two called in the Minnesota Vikings-Green Bay Packers game on Sunday. Much of the emphasis has been placed on the call against Packers’ linebacker Clay Matthews, which took a Kirk Cousins interception off the board and allowed the Vikings to come back and score the game-tying touchdown and two-point conversion. Mike Pereira and Dean Blandino, both of whom served as the NFL vice president of officiating (Alberto Riveron holds the job now) and are currently rules analysts for Fox Sports, do an online show together called “Last Call” where they go over plays and penalties from the week’s slate of games.
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