1/18 Texans @ Chiefs divisional playoff thread

[SaulGoodman]

53 minutes ago, Success said:

 

Are you still trying to pretend that the Chiefs don't get favorable officiating?

 

So why is it that the Bills seem to get the late/important calls vs KC?
 

[QCity]

Over 100 pages and I'd guess over half the posts are about the refs. The refs didn't shank a FG and miss an extra point. The refs didn't block a FG, sack Stroud 8 times or leave Kelce wide open in the middle of the field all day. Houston played like ass.

 

 

 

Edited Sunday at 06:21 AM by QCity

[SF Bills Fan]

If we get through tomorrow - we crush the Chiefs. 

[Kelly to Allen]

2 hours ago, SF Bills Fan said:

If we get through tomorrow - we crush the Chiefs. 

KC is going to be the hardest test.... But we will prevail 

[Bill from NYC]

7 hours ago, klos63 said:

Does Swift create revenue for the league?

I would think so. She has millions upon millions of fans and the advertisers know this. 

 

The old "mafia" as we knew it is all but dead. Roger Goodell is the new mob boss. Are they taking bets in stadiums yet? Goodell is said to be making 64 million dollars per year. 

[RobbRiddick]

37 minutes ago, Bill from NYC said:

I would think so. She has millions upon millions of fans and the advertisers know this. 

 

The old "mafia" as we knew it is all but dead. Roger Goodell is the new mob boss. Are they taking bets in stadiums yet? Goodell is said to be making 64 million dollars per year. 

I definitely feel like an old fan. I mean I am sort of old but not old-old. But I do feel out of touch with the modern NFL. 

 

Just watching the games like the Lions and Commanders, on one hand it was a fun game, especially early on, but it just feels so arena league to me. Just score, score, score, score, back and forth. Everything feels slicker now, cleaner and sanitized. I was watching The Drive on YouTube a while ago and that is the kind of thing I think of when I think about playoff football. A muddy field, no frills stadium, players covered in sh*t, going the length of the field in 2 minutes being a truly monumental act.

 

Watching now, even in my moments of enjoyment, it doesn't feel like the NFL anymore. It's just a slick, WWE style sports entertainment where they're always searching for the next big storyline. I've said before Josh Allen really re-ignited my interest in the game because I love watching him play so much. part of that might be because he feels very old school, not on the sense that QBs were ever like him years ago, but more how he plays the game, just ploughing through people and stiff arming. 

[Bill from NYC]

Great post!

 

When I look at video clips of the "old" NFL, it is apparent that changes had to be made. Games were more fun to watch imo, but some of these players were mean and seemingly blood thiirsty. Players like Dick Butkis, Jack Tatum, Ronnie Lott, and scores of others were out there to punish opposing players and it was extremely dangerous to play in the NFL. I'm surprised that more players were not paralyzed or even killed.

 

That said, now the refs seem to have total discretion. Pass interference could be called on every play imo and the same applies to offensive holding. Perhaps it is me but I see contact on every passing play, as well as holding up front from the linemen. Refs can control the game with discretionary calls, and my feeling is that many of these calls seem to be determined by Taylor Swift and the money that she brings in. 

 

I wish that I didn't feel this way and even hope to be wrong, but; they need that steady flow of cash to pay Goodell his 64 million dollar salary.

[SCBills]

Just able to scroll through social media reaction to the Chiefs game and wow.. the analysts and fans alike seem to have finally had just about enough of the NFL/Refs/Chiefs collab. 
 

And good on Mixon, Anderson & Ryans for blatantly calling it out. 
 

I’ve never seen so much disgust towards the NFL than I do now from large following accounts over the refs influence on helping the Chiefs year in/year out. 
 

Edited Sunday at 01:45 PM by SCBills

[Coastie]

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if somehow the Chiefs get a terrible call against them next week. Not because someone is making a conscious decision to "script" it that way but because the humans that referees the game have to hear this stuff and maybe, just maybe, those 50/50 calls don't go the "face of the league's" way by default.

Edited Sunday at 12:28 PM by Coastie

[JerseyBills]

7 hours ago, SaulGoodman said:

So why is it that the Bills seem to get the late/important calls vs KC?
 

When?

Please provide examples 

31 minutes ago, SCBills said:

Just able to scroll through social media reaction to the Chiefs game and wow.. the analysts and fans alike seem to have finally had just about enough of the NFL/Refs/Chiefs collab. 
 

And good on Mixon, Anderson & Ryans for blatantly calling it out. 
 

I’ve never seen so much disgust towards the NFL than I do now from large following accounts towards the refs influence on helping the Chiefs year in/year out. 
 

It's outrageous,  Hou was the better team,  the refs literally assisted to KC points and took points off the board for Hou

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

34 minutes ago, SCBills said:

Just able to scroll through social media reaction to the Chiefs game and wow.. the analysts and fans alike seem to have finally had just about enough of the NFL/Refs/Chiefs collab. 
 

And good on Mixon, Anderson & Ryans for blatantly calling it out. 
 

I’ve never seen so much disgust towards the NFL than I do now from large following accounts towards the refs influence on helping the Chiefs year in/year out. 
 

it's not over. whichever team goes there next week will succumb to the same results. if folks can't see the obvious script going on and has been going on all season, one loss?

 

divisional round with two clearly blatant  personal foul calls as well as missed calls to benefit the ***** mahomes and his team?

 

yeah, those who don't see it are either blind or kc ball washers.

 

 

[JerseyBills]

Imagine being a Texan fan. They were better on both sides, shameful 

 

[JerseyBills]

Nice thread 

 

 

[Sweats]

I had to turn the game off 20 minutes into it.........it was just making me sick.

[RichRiderBills]

Reffing was atrocious Saturday. 

 

When you couple it with this Taylor Swift cringe....plus the insane rise of gambling ...very worried about the NFL.

 

 

[NewEra]

8 hours ago, SaulGoodman said:

So why is it that the Bills seem to get the late/important calls vs KC?
 

What do you make of the officiating yesterday?  

[mannc]

1 hour ago, JerseyBills said:

When?

Please provide examples 

It's outrageous,  Hou was the better team,  the refs literally assisted to KC points and took points off the board for Hou

We got the biggest call of the game against the Chiefs last year when Hardman fumbled through the endzone…it was extremely close and IMO not enough to overturn the “down by contact” call on the field.  If that call goes the other way, game over.  We got other big calls that day, too

Edited Sunday at 02:26 PM by mannc

[SaulGoodman]

1 hour ago, JerseyBills said:

When?

Please provide examples 

 

Just looking at the last two regular season matchups, there was an offensive hold on KC’s last possession. Before that, a PI that gave the Bills a new set of downs on a 3rd down play. Offensive holding that killed KC’s previous drive. 
 

And of course, the extremely rare offensive offside call that just happened to erase a potential game-winning play. 
 

Just a few off the top of my head. What are the late/important calls that have gone against the Bills vs KC?

 

[SaulGoodman]

21 minutes ago, NewEra said:

What do you make of the officiating yesterday?  

I think refs aren’t perfect and a few iffy calls went KC’s way. I’ve seen a lot of iffy calls go the other way over the years, but no one ever seems to mention those for some reason. 
 

I’ve mentioned this before, but Mahomes has far more TDs erased by penalty than any other QB since he’s been in the league. KC was the only team to have a TD negated by penalty last postseason and it happened twice. KC’s been among the most-penalized teams in the league in the Mahomes era, and they’re nearly always near the top in the most critical penalties (offensive holding, DPI, etc). And an ESPN writer found that the team with the most late/close-game flags this year was KC. 
 

The facts don’t support the conspiracy theory. Every team gets iffy calls/no-calls. Every one. 
 

If people think the league is literally scripted…..why even watch? I sure as hell won’t watch WWE. 

[transient]

11 hours ago, Playoffs? said:

^ oh my god does Swift ever create revenue for the league! My buddy’s wife will watch every Chiefs game just to see Taylor for a few mins each time. And yeah, no they love Kelce. 
 

I was in Barnes and Noble recently… there was a kids biography section that picture books of the most famous people in time (that kids would care about)… George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Taylor Swift… and yep, you guessed… Travis Kelce. I almost puked. 

Hold on a minute… Barnes and Noble still exists?!?!