Pass Rush specialist Chuck Smith joined Dukes & Bell for his normal Tuesday appearance on the show and talked about what he thought of the Grady Jarrett sack turned roughing the passer, which has become an issue across the NFL.
When asked what he thinks of the roughing the passers calls being made on sacks.
“Everyone as they saw with Grady was a bad call, and I think you have to understand how movement works,” Smith said. “One of the things I don’t think the NFL understands when officials make plays like that is movement, so when you look at the movement, the dynamics of Grady how he’s bursting, how he ends up wrapping around Tom Brady. Really a lot of it has to do with you’re taught to burst when you beat an offensive lineman. Because the offensive lineman is on your hip trying to push you by or also you’ll have maybe another player, say the center peeling back on Grady. So you’re not taught to break your feet down, so movement and understanding how the body moves on pass rush has a lot to do with it.”
Smith talked about the NFL not understanding pass rush movement and how it works.
“So when Grady is going his full speed momentum in that way of wrapping up the quarterback, that’s always gonna to happen so that’s subjective when you look at the referee how he had to make that call. But the NFL they have to understand how movement works and how it works in conjunction with the blocker involved in the process, so with Grady it was a bad mixture because the referee and I don’t think the NFL truly understand the art of how pass rush movement works.”