What the media has done this week has been some of the most baffling shit I’ve ever seen in my life. The week of one of the biggest games in NFL history and all the media has talked about is two Patrick Mahomes personal fouls, singling him out.
Since evidently we are doing this, lead by the highest profile & highest paid NFL reporter in history, here’s the last Roughing the Passer call Mahomes got in the playoffs, prior to the Texans game.
What a flop!
This is incredibly embarrassing for someone who commands zero respect. Almost every one of these the announcers say are clear penalties. The one that they don’t the NFL reviewed it and said it was a penalty.
https://t.co/D3NFChSUJN
It’s insane that someone in the league is pushing this, and/or allowing the most visible person to spew this kind of BS. Maybe the Chiefs are better coached and don’t hit QBs late or in the head/neck. Back in my day teams who got less penalties called were considered better coached. Insane.
The league’s voice with the largest reach is insinuating the league both influences games via refereeing AND favors one team specifically. It’s not a cute little joke. That would be the biggest sports scandal ever, especially with everything being tied to gambling these days.
1) The refs said both calls were applied correctly after a day to review them. (I agreed with the first penalty, not the second) How exactly is it supposed to help that situation then?
2) Good job using his name in multiple tweets while you farm for outrage engagement. It’s not like Lamar had a much more egregious penalty NOT called against him on Sunday. That’s more recent than Saturday! And the non call was worse! But hey it’s a Pat problem so let’s make everyone angrier and play into the tinfoil hat people.
Now, folks, lead by disingenuous media members, are clinging to this crazy idea that a well coached, veteran, champion team avoiding penalties in the *postseason* is somehow EVIDENCE of a league wide conspiracy!
But when asked to provide the playoff game that the Chiefs won thanks to the ref they come up with… what?
An obvious hold in the Super Bowl that the defensive player said after the game, and I quote, “"It was a holding. I tugged his jersey. I was hoping they would let it slide."
An obvious roughing the passer penalty in AFCCG that the defensive player said, and I quote, “I didn’t know how far out of bounds we were.”
Or an unnecessary roughness call in the 3rd quarter of a game KC was winning that turned 2nd & 6 into a 1st down?
It’s all fever dream nonsense, lead by angry fans on social media & media members who have proudly tripled down on horrendous Chiefs takes that now feel boxed in by their continued excellence. That’s all.
It’s just exhausting.
@JoshDubowAP has outlined every imaginable scenario to show the Chiefs are league average (or worse!) over Mahomes career AND just the last 3 years in any penalty margin/ref category.
Folks don’t care.
We ALL saw the refs blow a HUGE DPI/OPI call in BUF/BAL that basically put 7 points on the board for BUF, we just move on because shit happens & refereeing is hard.
Folks don’t care.
But because the refs got ONE call wrong in KC-HOU (the first call, despite Aikman’s protests, was correct AND was reviewed by New York & upheld), it’s 4 days of hysteria. Ignoring that if the call hadn’t happened, KC would’ve had the devastating situation of… 2nd & 6 AND ignoring that Houston SCORED ONE TOUCHDOWN & PLAYED TERRIBLY!
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