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Ja’Gared Davis can only look at the way roughing the passer calls are being made in the NFL and shake his head.

As a defensive end who has been playing football since he was a kid, Davis was taught to tackle a certain way.

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He knows a dirty hit when he sees one, so when he sees guys like Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews getting penalized for seemingly clean hits on quarterbacks, Davis can’t help but wonder what defensive players are even supposed to do anymore.

“(The NFL’s new roughing the passer rule) would probably affect me a lot, because it’s to the point now where we almost can’t touch them at all,” Davis said. “(Matthews’ hits) again (Kirk Cousins), the one against Alex Smith, they were clean hits. He took his head out of it, didn’t lead with his head, he just ran through contact. As a kid, that’s what we’re taught.”

While the CFL’s rules do state that any hit above the passer’s shoulder that involves stuffing him to the ground, throwing him violently to the ground or landing on him with most of the defender’s weight is illegal, there hasn’t been anywhere near the controversy surrounding the way roughing the passer is flagged when compared to what’s happening in the NFL right now.