Patriots Penalties:
Method: This data reports the Penalties called on New England and their weekly opponents. It specifically reports the number of subjective penalty calls, which include Holding, Pass Interference, Unnecessary Roughness, Unsportsmanlike Conduct, Taunting, Illegal Blocks. This means that these infractions can either be called on every play and are completely at the discretion of the official to choose when to call them, or subjective in that they can be called based on the discretion of the official, such as if a hit is deemed unnecessary roughness (like roughing the passer or helmet to helmet). These are sometimes called and sometimes not called, but lay completely in the subjective perception of the official.
(Un)subjective Penalties are penalties that are clearly violations, such as Offside, delay of game, false start, and others. These penalties must be called because they are obvious and not at the discretion of the official. Whereas a holding penalty can be called on every play, an offside cannot. There simply has to be a player offside to call an offside, for example.
Week 1:
Subjective calls against the Patriots- 3
Defensive Pass Interference
Unnecessary Roughness
Offensive Holding (Offsetting)
Subjective Calls Against the Opponent (Chiefs)- 13
Defensive Pass Interference
Defensive Holding (Offsetting)
Defensive Holding
Offensive Holding
Offensive Holding
Offensive Holding
Unnecessary Roughness
Defensive Holding
Defensive Pass Interference
Taunting
Offensive Holding
Defensive Holding
Illegal Block Above the Waist
This does not include the second "running into the kicker," which might have been called "unnecessary roughness" by many officials