Two roughing the passer penalties have helped Washington take a surprising lead in the third quarter today.
A 12-play, 76-yard drive that resulted in a one-yard touchdown run by Darrel Young was helped along when the Eagles were twice flagged for hits on Robert Griffin III.
Both of the calls were questionable. Neither was particularly late, neither was a direct shot to Griffin’s head and neither drove Griffin into the ground at the end of the hit. Plenty of worse hits go uncalled every week.
But these two were called, and they went against the Eagles, who now trail 17-14.