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Originally Posted by kdf5
9-4-4...Roughing the passer. Defensive players must make a definite effort to avoid charging into a passer, who has thrown the ball from in or behind the neutral zone, after it is clear the ball has been thrown. No defensive player shall charge into the passer who is standing still or fading back, because he is considered out of the play after the pass.
Call it the way you want but technically the OP is a PF, not roughing.
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Forgive me, but sometimes new, or creative, interpretations related to issues that have long been otherwise established, serve only to confuse.
There are a number of Personal foul penalties described in NF: 9-4 (Personal Conduct). Beyond those fouls NF 9-4, 9-5 and 9-6 provide additional penalty specifically to afford additional protection to certain players who have been recognized as being especially vulnerable to injury while engaging in specific unique activities.
If a player is a "Passer", as defined in Rule 2 (NF: 2-32-11)
he is entitled to those
additional protections afforded by the additional penalty associated with committing a personal foul,
against a passer .
"Technically" weaselwording a foul committed against a "passer", into a lesser offense, is depriving him of the added protection that is deliberately sought by the creation of a rule designed specifically to protect him.