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Originally Posted by arrwheader
NFL could make their officiating more consistent and simplify rules and processes to make it better. They don't, and I don't think it is because they don't know how. I am not naïve enough to think they don't have a purpose behind that. I don't think rigged but I can see "influenced" Teams have to overcome it to win like it is a part of the game.
I Also think Brady has his team dedicate a whole section or whatever at practice on drawing flags. Where they study film find tendencies and try to exploit it and design a play to draw a flag. I really do. I also think they do it as well with personalities, anything to piss a guy off to draw a flag. I think they practice it and try their best to make it not look like a flop and it works. Guy was cheesing big time on that penalty on Jones, like the plan is working.
We lost the game we didn't score a touchdown. The biggest question we all need to ask is why we looked so un creative and un prepared. The Chiefs get this far on a "run it back" campaign and then just don't prepare for zone defense, offensive line issues (when their whole oline is out) etc. ? That is the part I can't understand the most. It was like they just didn't care.
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I don't believe the proper term is "rigged" either (although I do think the NFL is up there with soccer as one of the sports that would be easiest to rig if a ref really wanted to). I think it's just blatant bias/favoritism toward certain players and in particular Tom Brady.
It happens in the NBA to a certain extent too. I'm as big a LeBron fan as there is, but it's obvious he gets more calls than anybody in the NBA at this stage of his career. It isn't because the league is rigged (there's no way they're ever letting the Toronto Raptors win a title if that shit is rigged), it's because of who he is and the reputation he has built. The same thing happened to MJ before him.
Brady is going to get the benefit of the calls until he leaves the league due to the reputation/mythology that has been built up around him. You'd just hope it wouldn't be so blatant as Sunday.