Not everyone has agreed with Newton’s approach in raising his objections publicly. It’s difficult to deny that he has a point, however, with the NFL having acknowledged some of the missed calls on hits against Newton this season.

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“There’s no question about it,” Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon said Tuesday. “In the first game, there was one guy who got fined even though he was not flagged. I’m not sure what will happen with this one to the knees. I don’t know if he’ll get fined but it wasn’t flagged.

“I don’t feel like Cam’s beef is what’s happening to him when he goes outside the pocket. I feel like his beef is about those hits inside the pocket. I definitely get where he’s coming from. He’s not getting some of the calls he should get.”

Dean Blandino, the NFL’s vice president of officiating, told the league-owned NFL Network on Tuesday that Campbell’s hit should have been penalized.

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“One was a foul that we missed,” Blandino said. “And you can see Campbell coming up the middle and he’s gonna hit Cam in the knee area or below [with] forcible contact, driving through with the shoulder. That’s a foul for roughing the passer. We want our referees to call that. We’ll address that with the crews going forward.”

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In the season opener, a particularly egregious helmet-to-helmet hit by Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall was not penalized. Marshall left his feet to deliver that hit. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged in an interview four days later at FedEx Field that the officials had erred.

“Clearly I know we missed at least one in there,” Goodell said then. “But you’re also concerned about the fact they even happen, even if you don’t miss them from an officiating standpoint. What is it we can do to try to ensure that those hits don’t occur? That’s why we have a process. Obviously hopefully they’re flagged on the field. And then if not, discipline can occur.”

The NFL fined Marshall $24,309 for that hit on Newton. It fined Broncos safety Darian Stewart $18,231 for a hit on Newton during that game that was penalized, although Stewart’s penalty was offset by an intentional grounding call against Newton on the same play.

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Campbell is likely to be fined later this week for Sunday’s low hit.

Newton spoke to Goodell by phone Tuesday about his concerns.

“This is something we’ve heard before from other players and we obviously don’t take players’ safety concerns lightly,” Blandino said during his NFL Network interview. “And we review every play from every game with an eye for player safety, and we’ve done that all year.”

Officials will be shown the Campbell hit and another hit on Newton outside the pocket Sunday that was penalized, Blandino said.

“We’ll show both of these plays,” Blandino said. “We’ll address it with our referees and make sure that all of our quarterbacks are protected the same way under the rules.”

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Moon said in a phone interview that he does not agree with Newton’s method of airing his grievances.

“I’m not a fan of saying it publicly,” Moon said. “I’d have gone straight to the league or straight to the commissioner if I was him. You don’t have to tell the whole world. But he’s an emotional player and that’s his emotion coming through after a game.”

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Some observers have said that Newton’s sometimes-rugged playing style, as a big and agile quarterback who is not afraid to take on prospective tacklers when he runs with the football outside the pocket, might be affecting how hits on him inside the pocket are officiated.

“It might,” Moon said. “But it shouldn’t. Everyone is making the comparison to Shaquille O’Neal and how he didn’t get some calls because he was so big and strong and it didn’t seem to affect him. But it shouldn’t matter. The rule is if you go low on the quarterback below the knee in the pocket, it’s gonna get flagged. It’s the same thing when you go to the head. He should be getting those calls.”

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Blandino said quarterbacks and everyone else must keep in mind that the protection rules are different for a quarterback who is in the pocket as a passer — in which case hits to the head and hits below the knee are prohibited — and for a quarterback who leaves the pocket and becomes a runner.

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“I think it’s the posture that’s gonna dictate the protection,” Blandino said. “And we want our referees to be as consistent as possible. And quarterbacks have to understand that you get more protection in the pocket in the passing posture. And when you leave the pocket and you’re in a running posture, you’re going to lose protection. So I think that’s one of the issues. And when you have a quarterback that does run more often, there are more designed runs or just scrambles, you do lose protection.”

Goodell said in his interview during the season’s opening weekend that there is little sentiment within the league for making such illegal hits subject to instant replay review.