Tom Brady says QBs who scramble ‘should lose their protection’ amid Patrick Mahomes controversy

Tom Brady is the latest idiosyncratic to participate the treatment regarding the officiating calls surrounding Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes.

Brady, 47, talked astir however it should beryllium the quarterback’s work to support himself.

"When quarterbacks go moving backs, and they're retired of the pocket, they should suffer their protection," Brady said during a caller quality connected FOX Sports’ "The Herd."

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Announcer Tom Brady looks connected earlier an NFC chaotic paper crippled betwixt the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers astatine Lincoln Financial Field. (Bill Streicher-Imagn Images)

"We're trying to support the quarterbacks, but coaches are calling much backmost runs than ever successful the past of the game. So, who is protecting the quarterback? We're trying to accidental the referees should bash it?"

Mahomes was the beneficiary of 2 calls successful the Chiefs' 23-14 triumph implicit the Houston Texans.

Texans’ star antiaircraft extremity Will Anderson Jr. was flagged for a roughing the passer punishment for hitting Mahomes up toward the caput country portion throwing a pass, but what Brady seems to beryllium alluding to is the punishment Mahomes received successful the 3rd quarter.

Mahomes was scrambling successful the 3rd quarter, and arsenic helium slid, was deed by 2 Texans defenders adjacent the caput country arsenic helium was going down. 

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Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes, #15, is tackled by Azeez Al-Shaair, #0 of the Houston Texans, during the archetypal 4th of the AFC Divisional Playoff astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium connected Jan. 18, 2025 successful Kansas City, Missouri. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Texans linebacker Henry To’oTo’o was flagged for unnecessary roughness connected the play. 

There was different play successful the 4th fourth erstwhile Mahomes seemed to embellish interaction on the sidelines successful hopes of generating different flag, but the referees did not telephone a penalty.

"The world for maine is violative players request to support themselves. If they're moving afloat velocity and the defender's coming up — the lone mode to crook the shot implicit is to make force. You're not going to stroke connected the shot and sound its mode retired of a moving back's hands oregon a quarterback's hands," Brady said. 

"You've gotta spell determination with unit and sound it out. You're trying to make turnovers. You're trying to disrupt the passer. You're trying to dislodge the ball. The lone mode to bash that is with force. There needs to beryllium an aggressiveness to doing that."

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Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes speaks astatine a quality league aft an NFL shot crippled against the Cleveland Browns successful Cleveland connected Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/David Richard)

Brady said that defenders playing frightened of being penalized is simply a disservice to the game. 

"If you don't wanna get hit, you tin spell down, you tin tally retired of bounds," Brady said. "But you can't, successful essence, person the antiaircraft subordinate travel successful astatine fractional speed, and past you tally implicit the antiaircraft subordinate due to the fact that he's acrophobic of getting a penalty. It's a disservice to the game. It's thing that I'd anticipation radical truly address. Not that anyone's trying to instrumentality vantage of the rules, but they've gone to a constituent wherever it does interaction the prime of the game."

When Mahomes’ Chiefs play the Buffalo Bills successful the AFC Championship crippled connected Sunday astatine 6:30 p.m., determination volition surely beryllium other attraction paid to Mahomes and the referees. 

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