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Super Bowl champion head coach Tony Dungy expressed his frustration with inconsistent pass interference penalties during Thanksgiving Day’s slate of NFL games.
There were plenty of questionable calls during each of the three games — as there have been throughout the entire 2025 season. He wrote on social media that the discrepancies have made it appear NFL officials don’t know what pass interference is.
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Tony Dungy on NBC Sports prior to the game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Buffalo Bills at SoFi Stadium on September 8, 2022. (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)
“When you watch NFL football all day long, you just come to the conclusion that our officials don’t know what pass interference is,” he wrote on X. “We tried to get it reported a few years ago and it didn’t help. But these are monster penalties that aren’t called consistently at all.”
Dungy further explained his stance when an X user wrote back that his comments were “cheap seats kind of griping.”
“I had a good day watching football. I just think pass interference is called very inconsistently. And they’re sometimes 40 yard penalties. Don’t make it a cheap seat grab. It’s just a fact made from watching 3 games with (DBs) and WRs making contact with 40-50 passes. Anyone who watched the games would say the same.”
Former NFL coach Tony Dungy watches from the sidelines during the 2025 NFL game between the Atlanta Falcons and the San Francisco 49ers at Levi’s Stadium on October 19, 2025 in Santa Clara, California. (Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)
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NFL officials have sparked debates across social media about pass interference calls, which have also reached the broadcast booth, with Tony Romo and Cris Collinsworth among those critical of them this year.
Former NFL head coach Jon Gruden said last December that he wanted the league to adopt college football’s pass interference rules.
“I would make it the college rule, honestly, because some of these pass-interference calls affect the game, just one play there,” Gruden said at the time on the “Pardon My Take” podcast.
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He also suggested that the call was too subjective and that the penalty flag should only be thrown if it is clear and obvious.
