Super Bowl champion coach takes issue with NFL officials over pass interference penalties

Super Bowl champion caput manager Tony Dungy expressed his vexation with inconsistent walk interference penalties during Thanksgiving Day’s slate of NFL games.

There were plentifulness of questionable calls during each of the 3 games – arsenic determination person been implicit the people of the full 2025 season. He wrote connected societal media that the discrepancies person made it look that NFL officials bash not cognize what walk interference is.

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Tony Dungy connected the NBC Sports acceptable earlier the crippled betwixt the Los Angeles Rams and the Buffalo Bills astatine SoFi Stadium connected Sept. 8, 2022.  (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)

"When you ticker NFL shot each time agelong you conscionable travel to the decision our officials don’t cognize what walk interference is," helium wrote connected X. "We tried making it reviewable a mates of years agone and that didn’t help. But these are monster penalties that are not called consistently astatine all."

Dungy explained his instrumentality further erstwhile 1 X idiosyncratic wrote backmost that his comments were "cheap seats benignant of gripes."

"I had a bully time watching football. I conscionable deliberation walk interference is called precise inconsistently. And they are sometimes 40 gait penalties. Doesn’t marque it a inexpensive spot gripe. It’s conscionable a connection of information made from watching 3 games with (DBs) and WRs making interaction connected 40-50 passes. Anybody who watched the games would accidental the aforesaid thing."

Former NFL manager Tony Dungy looks connected from the sideline during the NFL 2025 crippled betwixt Atlanta Falcons and San Francisco 49ers astatine Levi's Stadium connected Oct. 19, 2025 successful Santa Clara, California.  (Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)

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NFL officials person sparked debates crossed societal media implicit walk interference calls, which person besides reached the broadcast booth arsenic Tony Romo and Cris Collinsworth were among those captious of them this year.

Former NFL caput manager Jon Gruden said past December that helium would privation to spot the league follow assemblage football’s rules connected walk interference penalties.

"I would marque it the assemblage rule, honestly, due to the fact that immoderate of these walk interference calls are impacting the game, conscionable 1 play there," Gruden said astatine the clip connected the "Pardon My Take" podcast.

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He besides suggested the telephone was excessively subjective and that the punishment emblem should lone beryllium thrown if it is wide and obvious.

Fox News’ Chantz Martin contributed to this report.

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