Tom Brady Blasts NFL for Steelers Suspension
PITTSBURGH -- Future Hall of Famer Tom Brady has made his thoughts known about the NFL suspending Pittsburgh Steelers safety Damontae Kazee for the remainder of the season due to several unnecessary roughness penalties throughout the year.
The Steelers safety was ejected in Week 15 after a hit on Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr. Days later, the league announced Kazee would be shut down for the remainder of the season, and the playoffs, without pay.
"When players violate the rules intended to protect player safety on a repeated basis, and particularly when the violations carry with them a significant risk of injury to an opposing player, it is appropriate to impose substantially greater penalties," NFL vice president of football operations John Runyan said in a press release about the suspension.
Now, Brady is putting his thoughts on there, blasting the NFL for their decision on the manner.
"Nobody likes seeing players get hurt. But hard hits happen," Brady wrote on Instagram. "QBs should not be throwing the ball in areas where they are exposing their own teammates to these types of hits. Coaches need to coach better, QBs needs to read coverages and throw the ball to the right places and defenders should aim for the right hitting areas. To put the blame on the defense player all the time is just flat out wrong. Need better QB play!! It’s not OK QBs to get your WRs hit because of your bad decisions!”
Kazee does plan to appeal to suspension. This season, he's been fined five times for just over $59,000. However, his agent confirmed to CBS Sports' Josina Anderson that most of those fines were rescinded.
"I want to bring light to the situation of defensive players who are in a position feeling like they have to make plays to keep their job, but also not having any intent to injure," Kazee's agent Ron Butler told Anderson. "This is the most I've dealt with fines since I've been an agent. I understand they're trying to clean up the game, but at this point it's a bit extreme. As for the notion of Kazee receiving a harsher punishment for being a 'repeat violator' you have to remember most of his fines that were assessed this season got rescinded after appeal. So we have to be careful about that classification and narrative."
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