Banner afternoon for the Chiefs get all the calls crowd.

[PunkinDrublic]

Get ready for your social media feeds to be flooded with crybaby bitch memes. It truly is lonely at the top!

[BryanBusby]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

NFL Officiating Rules Analyst Walt Anderson appeared on @NFLGameDay with a detailed explanation of the controversial flags thrown Saturday for hits on #Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes.

Short version, per Anderson: Under the rules, officials got both calls right. pic.twitter.com/gIL9OidOQL

— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) January 19, 2025

Somebody tell Aikman and the ESPN rules analyst

Doesn't matter. Will just excuse it as protecting the shield.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

Texans RB Joe Mixon on the officiating in today's game:

"Everybody know how it is playing up here. You can never leave it into the refs hands. The whole world see, man." pic.twitter.com/NZPIlO6YrQ

— Will Kunkel (@WillKunkelFOX) January 19, 2025

Once a Bengal, always a Bengal

[tredadda]

Originally Posted by ForeverIowan

By bailout he means the CLEAR AND OBVIOUS pass interference that any ref would have called for any other of the 31 teams in the league? Lets not even mention the questionable call against the Chiefs the prior play. You can't make this shit up.

KC has gotten to the point where people think that blatant penalties against them should not be called. When they are it’s because the refs/NFL are “bailing them out”.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

NFL Officiating Rules Analyst Walt Anderson appeared on @NFLGameDay with a detailed explanation of the controversial flags thrown Saturday for hits on #Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes.

Short version, per Anderson: Under the rules, officials got both calls right. pic.twitter.com/gIL9OidOQL

— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) January 19, 2025

Somebody tell Aikman and the ESPN rules analyst

The issue with discussions about the Chiefs and refs are a mess because people conflate a ton of different concepts:

I don't like the rule
I don't like how they call the rule
The refs are inconsistent
The refs protect QBs too much
The Chiefs know how to use the rules in their favor
I don't like the Chiefs

All of those in some combination are usually the actual issues in these situations, but it gets reduced to "the refs are biased toward the Chiefs" because online discussion in the modern era doesn't exactly have nuance as a central characteristic.

[carcosa]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

Texans RB Joe Mixon on the officiating in today's game:

"Everybody know how it is playing up here. You can never leave it into the refs hands. The whole world see, man." pic.twitter.com/NZPIlO6YrQ

— Will Kunkel (@WillKunkelFOX) January 19, 2025

This shit is so sad lol

[Humbug]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Once a Bengal, always a Bengal

Once a bitch, always a bitch

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by tredadda

KC has gotten to the point where people think that blatant penalties against them should not be called. When they are it’s because the refs/NFL are “bailing them out”.

It’s so bad people complain if the spot of the ball isn’t IMMEDIATELY correct. The officials very briefly discuss, get it right by marking it short, and they still complain the refs tried to rig it.

[Macroach]

It starts from the head coach on down. Demeco Ryans smirking and blaming the officials indirectly in his post game presser … then the Texan players directly calling out officials.

Do the rules over protect the QB? That’s another discussion - it’s independent of this media-created, social-media fueled narrative that the Chiefs get ALL the calls.

Anyone who wants to hate-watch a NFL game and JUST look for calls they don’t agree with will find what they seek. They can then blame “rigged” games and impartial officiating for their own failures. (See Ryans and the rest of the Texans with their bad case of denial).

Where is the social media outrage that the Lions had a 3rd down “face mask” call that was a shoulder-pad grab? Must have been refs rigging the game, right?

[4th and Long]

It's time to put an end to the myth that NFL officials help the Kansas City Chiefs win football games.*

1. Referees help the Chiefs with calls: Since Patrick Mahomes took over as the starting QB in 2018, the Chiefs have been called for 846 more penalty yards, against them, than their opponents. That's the 3rd worst differential of any team in the NFL. In fact, the zebras have been making life hard for the Chiefs.

Offensive drives turn into touchdowns at a 22% pace, league wide. Since 2018, the Chiefs have been called for offensive holding 196 times. The reason that this is important is that when a team is called for an offensive penalty during that drive, the touchdown rate falls from 22% to 14%. So, not only are the Chiefs victims of the most offensive holding calls, they've managed to overcome those penalties with a top rated offense.

2. Patrick Mahomes gets a beneficial flag any time he is touched: Since 2018, Patrick Mahomes has played in 112 games and has dropped back to pass more than 4,100 times. Of those 4,100+ drop backs, there have been a total of 30 roughing the passer flags. That's 16th of any QB who's played in the NFL sine 2009. Do the math.

3. The Chiefs always get the calls in crucial situations: Be it 3rd and long or 4th and medium, those big plays when it matters most, the conspiracy theory is that the officials go out of their way to help the Chiefs in those moments. On plays of 3rd and 10 or longer, or 4th and 5 or longer, the Chiefs have just 2 penalties, for the entire season, that were in their favor. That's 15th in the NFL. Let's add to that, this little factoid. When looking at penalties in the second half, in 1 score games in 2024, no team has had more flags thrown against them than the Chiefs.

This whole narrative that the officials always help the Chiefs is just plain garbage.

* statistical data is pre-post season.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

Something certainly made conceding defeat seem unacceptable to the point that the outcome HAD to be "rigged." I can't imagine politicians were what made it societally acceptable, but they certainly didn't help.

That's exactly what did it.

If you don't vote for my side all your neighbors will have the power to torture you. Everyone secretly hates you and wants what you have and to take away what you love.

That's politics - that's not reality...

[ShortRoundChief]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

Texans RB Joe Mixon on the officiating in today's game:

"Everybody know how it is playing up here. You can never leave it into the refs hands. The whole world see, man." pic.twitter.com/NZPIlO6YrQ

— Will Kunkel (@WillKunkelFOX) January 19, 2025

Yup. I understand wholeheartedly that you can’t leave it in the ref’s hands at Arrowhead. Kelce understands too after the infamous “he shouldn’t even be allowed to work at Footlocker “ statement.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by 4th and Long

This whole narrative that the officials always help the Chiefs is just plain garbage.

* statistical data is pre-post season.

It has nothing to do with reality. The fact is in modern America if you just complain loud enough long enough you'll just get what you want. Right or wrong.

[RedinTexas]

Originally Posted by DaFace

The issue with discussions about the Chiefs and refs are a mess because people conflate a ton of different concepts:

I don't like the rule
I don't like how they call the rule
The refs are inconsistent
The refs protect QBs too much
The Chiefs know how to use the rules in their favor
I don't like the Chiefs

All of those in some combination are usually the actual issues in these situations, but it gets reduced to "the refs are biased toward the Chiefs" because online discussion in the modern era doesn't exactly have nuance as a central characteristic.

In all fairness, this goes both ways.

[tk13]

It's just going to get worse because NFL refs make mistakes and anything that favors the Chiefs is going to be a "momentum changing play" whether it was reality or not. This game is the first time where it's felt like people have become disassociated from reality.

[Hammock Parties]