You might as well put skirts on quarterbacks. That’s Jack Lambert’s famous line about the protection passers receive in the modern NFL. So it’s fair to say Lambert probably wouldn’t love Art Rooney II’s recent comments about the position. In an interview earlier in the week with Sirius Radio’s Movin’ The Chains, Rooney II acknowledged that while some of the calls against quarterbacks are questionable, it’s a worthwhile trade-off in order to protect the position.
“I agree with you, it’s a tough penalty,” Rooney told the show’s Pat Kirwan and Jim Miller, responding to the frustration over some of the calls.