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The NFL did not do a single thing about roughing the passer this offseason.

It's ruined the game since the start of the 2018 season.  It's screwed probably every team in the league.  Miami got its first taste against the Chargers this year.

Are the defensive players okay with it? 

Here's some things I would do

1) RTP is between downs.  This means that if a team gets a turnover on the play, they keep the ball and penalty is marked off.  This will prevent weak RTPs from drastically altering games.

2) No body weight rule.  This is tackle-football, not flag football.

3) Judgements on hands to the helmet.  How hard are they?  No blanket, "Any time the hand hits the helmet it's a penalty".

4) No low hit penalties.  Again, this is tackle football.  If a defender needs to wrap the quarterbacks legs to make a sack, he should be allowed to.

Your #1 is a stupid idea. You may keep weak ones from affecting the game but you open the door for egregious ones

If the defense keeps the ball on a turnover, you are incentivizing defenders to intentionally target the head of QBs, hoping to knock the ball loose.  Sure, you'll get a 15-yard penalty, but you now have the ball.

I agree with this change.  The body weight rule is being enforced in a way that is simply absurd.

This is already the case.  If a defender has wrapped up a QB and his hands happen to touch the QB's helmet on the way down, that is not an automatic personal foul.

After the injuries to Carson Palmer and Tom Brady, the league decided that allowing these kinds of tackles on passers is not worth the risk of injury.  And this is not the first time such a decision has been made; although the NFL is indeed tackle football, horse collar tackles were prohibited nearly two decades ago, due to the same evaluation of injury risk vs. impact to the game.