Fans livid over awful 'roughing the passer' call on Ole Miss against Kyle Trask
The boos rained down in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium Saturday when Ole Miss was called for a “roughing the passer” penalty against Kyle Trask.
Rebels’ defensive coordinator DJ Durkin called a blitz off the edge by Momo Sonogo on 3rd down, and Sonogo then gets called for roughing the passer on the incomplete pass.
The penalty gave Florida a first down and kept the drive alive.
Check this out.
This was called roughing the passer…. pic.twitter.com/WAONvy9fZL
— KÏŁŁÄ ČÄM (@FTBeard1) September 26, 2020
The Florida Gators lead Ole Miss 44-29 with a little over 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter.
Fans reacted on social media over the call.
How is that roughing the passer on Ole Miss?
— Todd McShay (@McShay13) September 26, 2020
What an absolutley ridiculous roughing the passer call on Ole Miss.
— Wes Rucker (@wesrucker247) September 26, 2020
Horrible roughing the passer call against Ole Miss continues a drive for Florida on 3rd down.
Predictable.— Jeff Jarnigan (@JeffJarnigan) September 26, 2020
Awful roughing the passer call against Ole Miss. pic.twitter.com/UJb5VpwFCq
— Dustin Jackson (@DustinVT2009) September 26, 2020
Weak roughing the passer call
— GuruNole (@jbuch007) September 26, 2020
I don’t blame them.
Ridiculous call
It cost Ole Miss a lot. “Illegal tackling”?!?? C’mon man
*Roughing the 240lb QB*
Ball was long gone. That’s going to be called every time. The more questionable call was the targeting on Shawn Davis when he hit the receiver with the side of his body.
Nashville. A split second is “long gone?” If that call had gone against Florida, you would be saying the opposite I bet. And the Davis hit was clearly targeting as he hit a defenseless player being tackled in the head with his helmet. Very dirty hit back Davis and there is no place in college football for that kind of hit any more. Fortunately, it was at the beginning of the game and he will not miss any time in the SC game next Saturday. But I hope he learned a valuable lesson. Hit hard, but hit legally.
Nash…that targeting call ? I sure did not see it the way the refs called it…looked like a shoulder pad/body hit, with very minor touching of the helmets.
After watching it a few more times you may have a point Nash, but it’s also hard not to see Nature’s point that Sonogo didn’t know where the ball was. But sonogo did get that little lift and slam at the end guess he was just trying to finally bring Trask down. There wasn’t a whistle at that point.
Greatest of all was the reaction by the Ole Miss fans. That has to be the best fan involvement of the SEC covid year so far.
Ya, I guess they balance out. The Davis ejection really made the pass defense significantly worse, especially with all the other defensive players out.
Georgia fans worried about all things Florida when they can’t even score against Arkansas
A walk on QB, not a 4 or 5 star all-world QB, helped UGA score some. But Georgia has a QB problem for sure. They better hope the USC QB transfer gets his OK to play soon. Not sure what the Georgia OC was seeing in that redshirt freshman they started. He is clearly not ready to play QB as a starter in the SEC. But you can see that he has a lot of talent. He is just not mentally ready to execute at a high level. But I think he has a lot of potential. But Franks did as well.
Fans should be more concerned that their defense can’t tackle anyone actually HOLDING THE FOOTBALL let alone a quarterback standing in the backfield with nothing left to do on the play.
Learn the rules of the game or don’t bother showing up to the stadium you swine. Those refs did everything they could to keep Ole Miss in that game from start to finish.
Absolutely correct. The refs could have called (tackling) on Ole miss offensive line 85% of the time.
Florida grad and fan here. That was a horrible call. But I am glad the ref made it. Florida’s defense was playing about as horrible as that call was. I am sure the SEC will address the call with the ref this week. The Ole Miss player did not pick Trask up and toss him to the ground. If fact, he had no idea if Trask still had the ball or not. What was he supposed to do, let Trask go and hope he had let go of the ball? Sometimes these refs go overboard to protect QBs, as was the case this time.