Officials allowed the Chiefs to cheat the entire game

[John from Riverside]

They were holding like crazy to

[Goin Breakdown]

Waiting for the nfl to gaslight us about this issue. 

[C.Biscuit97]

1 hour ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Chiefs need to fix it. Here's why.

 

If you paid attention to Taylor on almost every play, he way tipping run/pass.

 

When he would line up further back and rock before the snap- pass. Almost every time. However on run plays he was up more in line with the OG and didn't flinch. Hutch is a really good player, but this was one reason why on pass plays he came like he was shot out of a cannon. 

 

 

Yup. Refs were dumb not to call it but Detroit might not have wanted it called. It was so blatantly obviously when the Chiefs were running or passing.

 

weirdly, Reid Will probably note this and start using it to confuse teams.

[C.Biscuit97]

15 minutes ago, John from Riverside said:

They were holding like crazy to

John, one thing that saves me a lot of stress is complaining about holding. Every play has holding. It will drive you insane if you get made about every missed holding call. 

[Matt_In_NH]

It was totally ridiculous.  

[The Wiz]

3 minutes ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

John, one thing that saves me a lot of stress is complaining about holding. Every play has holding. It will drive you insane if you get made about every missed holding call. 

When you see this happen, it's a little more than "it happens on every play" though.

 

 

[The Frankish Reich]

Too bad Spencer Brown is a nice Iowa boy who would never dream of cheating like that.

[Yobogoya!]

1 hour ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

The best part of it all....when the refs FINALLY called him for it on 4th and 20 to make it 4th and 25. I was cackle laughing.

Yeah I literally burst out into laughter when they did that. My girlfriend who’s a Chiefs fan didn’t see the humor 😅

[Matt_In_NH]

To me the lions and Hutchinson should have gone ballistic over this and challenged the refs to call it.  They just sat there and took it.  

[QB Bills]

28 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

As Chris Simms has repeatedly said (and I agree with him), o-line players across the board are getting more non-calls going their way these days because today’s defensive linemen are SUCH better athletes than before — and better athletes by a good ways than offensive linemen on average. They’re basically changing the rules to account for this disparity without actually officially changing them. I have come to accept it because at least I know the unwritten rules now. I suggest just accepting it. The league wants to protect QBs, and this is how they do it in a context of physically overmatched offensive linemen.

I thought this too and seems like the only explanation. As bad as NFL officiating is there's no way the refs are that incompetent to miss false starts all game so they gave him the equivalent of the "extra split second after the clock hits zero" delay of game penalty leniency.

[dorquemada]

16 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Too bad Spencer Brown is a nice Iowa boy who would never dream of cheating like that.

 

I think this might be the key to unlock unlimited cheat codes for Brown

[Dan Darragh]

1 hour ago, Your Brown Eye said:

Some of the onus lies of the Lions staff and players for not bringing it to the officials attention (if they did not do so). If they did and it was still allowed then that is not a good look at all, on national TV with even the announcers cracking jokes about it almost every play. It was baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

The Lions coaching staff was busy accepting a penalty that gave KC a second chance on 3rd down instead of forcing 4th down.  The announcers completely missed it but they mentioned it much later, probably when someone in their ear told them the Lions had goofed.

[Simon]

2 minutes ago, Dan Darragh said:

The Lions coaching staff was busy accepting a penalty that gave KC a second chance on 3rd down instead of forcing 4th down.  The announcers completely missed it but they mentioned it much later, probably when someone in their ear told them the Lions had goofed.

 

He also declined a defensive holding call that would have given the Lions an automatic first down and instead opted for an extra 2 yrds of field position. 

[Big Turk]

It was hilarious, because the RT was able to basically sit further back then he should have been allowed to to start AND get off the ball early and allowed it the whole game up until the last drive and they were finally like "aha! We got you this time!" to push them back to a 4th and 25.

Edited September 8, 2023 by Big Turk

[Franco_92]

38 minutes ago, Matt_In_NH said:

To me the lions and Hutchinson should have gone ballistic over this and challenged the refs to call it.  They just sat there and took it.  

Honestly they might have been happy with the run/pass tell it provided them. 

[K-9]

1 hour ago, dave mcbride said:

As Chris Simms has repeatedly said (and I agree with him), o-line players across the board are getting more non-calls going their way these days because today’s defensive linemen are SUCH better athletes than before — and better athletes by a good ways than offensive linemen on average. They’re basically changing the rules to account for this disparity without actually officially changing them. I have come to accept it because at least I know the unwritten rules now. I suggest just accepting it. The league wants to protect QBs, and this is how they do it in a context of physically overmatched offensive linemen.

I agree with all of this. If the penalty is not going to be called, then the league should remove any pretext and just amend the rule and allow OTs to line up behind the center’s ass when they want to. It makes no sense to have rules if there is no intention of enforcing them. 

[Matt_In_NH]

10 minutes ago, arcane said:

Honestly they might have been happy with the run/pass tell it provided them. 

 

[The Wiz]

49 minutes ago, Matt_In_NH said:

To me the lions and Hutchinson should have gone ballistic over this and challenged the refs to call it.  They just sat there and took it.  

Why would he go ballistic, he was having too much fun putting Taylor on his ass.

 

 

[CodeMonkey]

1 hour ago, dorquemada said:

 

Nails on a chalkboard everytime that guy opens his mouth but I never thought i'd live to see the day that he said/observed anything negative about the chiefs

Or that I agreed with!

[PatsFanNH]

2 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Chiefs need to fix it. Here's why.

 

If you paid attention to Taylor on almost every play, he way tipping run/pass.

 

When he would line up further back and rock before the snap- pass. Almost every time. However on run plays he was up more in line with the OG and didn't flinch. Hutch is a really good player, but this was one reason why on pass plays he came like he was shot out of a cannon. 

 

 

Great point! I also think that’s why he destroyed that 3rd and 1 and tackled the RB for a 2 yard loss.