Tom Brady: Quarterback possibly facing fine following controversial penalty v Falcons

Tom Brady could reportedly be facing a fine from the NFL for his reaction to a controversial incident over the weekend.

This weekend wasn’t exactly the greatest for Tom Brady, considered by many to be the greatest football player that the world has ever seen, although you could make the argument that a large part, in fact all of it, wasn’t exactly of his own doing.

Not only did the Tampa Bay Buccaneers struggle to beat the struggling Atlanta Falcons, not helped by the fact that a lot of players on the Buccaneers side are far from healthy this season, but he was involved in a rather controversial decision towards the end of the game. 

Late in the 4th quarter, the Buccaneers were looking to put together a drive to kill the clock, and force the Falcons to use their remaining timeouts in order to seal the game.

But on a 3rd down play, Brady was sacked by the Falcons’ Grady Jarrett, which looked as if it would force the Buccaneers to punt, and give the Falcons one last chance to drive down the field and possibly win the game. However, the play was called back for ‘roughing the passer’, even though looking at it, it seemed as if it was a pretty clean and fair tackle, giving them a first down that more or less sealed the game.

Video: Tom Brady earns favourable roughing the passer call:

This very well might be the worst roughing the passer call in NFL history pic.twitter.com/DBejlYpd9N

The decision to throw a flag on the play left plenty of people fuming about the decision to penalise Jarrett, with many thinking that Brady got away with it. 

However according to reports, Brady might not have gotten out of the woods completely.

According to reports from ESPN and the Associated Press:

The NFL has looked at Atlanta Falcons