Watch: Deion Sanders blasts roughing the passer call in Cowboys-Buccaneers game
Add Hall of Famer and current Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders to the list of people annoyed with the NFL’s enforcement of the roughing the passer rule.
As Reice Shipley noted for The Comeback, Sanders was serving as a guest for the ESPN2 “Manningcast” broadcast of Monday’s wild-card playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers when Tampa Bay’s Akiem Hicks was flagged for roughing Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott in the first quarter.
“C’mon man, they can’t even touch you guys anymore,” Sanders said to retired signal-callers Peyton and Eli Manning. “Don’t you want to play right now? Tell the truth, don’t you guys want to play right now?”
Sanders later said the call was “ridiculous,” and he repeatedly asked where roughing had occurred on the play:
