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Originally Posted by transplant99

According to the referee yesterday Matthews was called for bringing all his weight down on Cousins...same thing happened the week before. Both are ridiculous which is why i comparing them.

What is interesting, is that is not why he called him. Here is Corrente's quote:

It has nothing to do with the rule of full-body weight [landing on the quarterback]. It has nothing to do with helmet-to-helmet. He picked the quarterback up and drove him into the ground.
https://packerswire.usatoday.com/201...clay-matthews/

He also doubled down when was asked what Matthews could have done differently his answer was "don't drive him into the ground".

Bizarre interpretation, and beyond that the NFL has now said they plan to use the Matthews and Kendriks hits as coaching moments of a technique that is not allowed. So the NFL has backed up their official and decided that the Matthews hit is a penalty and will be called as such.

The closed the catch controversy to only open up this one. This is going to get very messy for the NFL.