Season has rough start for Packers' Matthews
by Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times
Sep 30, 2018
3 minutes
Clay Matthews has a strange streak going, one that he hopes to break Sunday.
The Green Bay linebacker has been flagged for roughing the passer in each of the Packers' three games, and two of those penalties appeared to be normal tackles.
Officials are eagle-eyeing quarterback hits this season, and particularly ones in which the tackler uses his full body weight to drive quarterbacks into the ground. There have been 34 roughing-the-passer penalties this season, more than double the
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