Hard to beat the Chiefs and the refs every post-season

[90sBills]

2 minutes ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:

Also the moral victory of not giving Chiefs their perfect season. You’re welcome, Miami. Philly is not winning, NFL wants a 3 peat, it’s been the driving story this year. 

Not sure about that. Philly’s DLine was ferocious today. Saquon is also playing like a man possessed. Those are two of KC’s weaknesses. 

[LABILLBACKER]

1 hour ago, GoBills! said:

What was the mystery flag on the Kincaid drop? Anyone know? 

This whole game was a mystery flag.  I'll never trust the NFL ever again. 

[LABILLBACKER]

13 minutes ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:

Also the moral victory of not giving Chiefs their perfect season. You’re welcome, Miami. Philly is not winning, NFL wants a 3 peat, it’s been the driving story this year. 

Of course they want a repeat. They also want all the extra Swiftie eyeballs on the advertisers. Having KC/ Philly generates far more revenue than us. Once the 3peat is accomplished and Kelce retires with Tay, maybe...just maybe around our new stadium we stand a chance??

[Dr.Sack]

22 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:

Of course they want a repeat. They also want all the extra Swiftie eyeballs on the advertisers. Having KC/ Philly generates far more revenue than us. Once the 3peat is accomplished and Kelce retires with Tay, maybe...just maybe around our new stadium we stand a chance??

Never. Mahomes will find a new billionaire and cheat on his wife to add spice. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

This sums up things:

 

"Although the Chiefs don’t truly get every call, it’s ones like these in high leverage situations that make people think they do. This game is tight at halftime, and if it stays close there’s going to be another high leverage situations that involve referees."

 

From here:

 

https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2025/1/26/24352616/chiefs-bills-controversial-calls-refs-xavier-worthy-video-ruling

 

Totally obscene!  You can see the nose of ball touch grass and then go into Worthy's control!!  This lead to 7 points!

 

 

[Mike in Horseheads]

4 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

This sums up things:

 

"Although the Chiefs don’t truly get every call, it’s ones like these in high leverage situations that make people think they do. This game is tight at halftime, and if it stays close there’s going to be another high leverage situations that involve referees."

 

From here:

 

https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2025/1/26/24352616/chiefs-bills-controversial-calls-refs-xavier-worthy-video-ruling

 

Totally obscene!  You can see the nose of ball touch grass and then go into Worthy's control!!  This lead to 7 points!

 

 

bu bu bu But there was a flag on the play ! Yup for 5 yds that would have bought ball back 20 tds

 

[ExiledInIllinois]

2 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

bu bu bu But there was a flag on the play ! Yup for 5 yds that would have bought ball back 20 tds

 

Did you notice on Kincaid's drop at end,  CBS got notification that there was a flag on play.  Nantz commented,  they showed flag indicator on TV, the CBS/NFL withdrew it... Probably because it was 4th Down and incomplete... You just know they wouldn't have picked up flag had Dalton caught it!😠... It would be interesting to see if there was an actual flag on field and they picked it up! I wonder how they first thought there was a flag thrown!

[Mike in Horseheads]

1 minute ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Did you notice on Kincaid's drop at end,  CBS got notification that there was a flag on play.  Nantz commented,  they showed flag indicator on TV, the CBS/NFL withdrew it... Probably because it was 4th Down and incomplete... You just know they wouldn't have picked up flag had Dalton caught it!😠... It would be interesting to see if there was an actual flag on field and they picked it up! I wonder how they first thought there was a flag thrown!

It could have been confusion with the yellow spikes or gloves that both should be banned

 

[BillsFanNC]

5 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

So it is rigged?

Don Beebee? 😆🤣 

 

I never said or implied that the game was rigged.

 

So are you sober yet?

[stlbills13]

It feels childish to say rigged but man for 5 years now the chiefs get EVERY big moment call. Even ones that are clear on review. 

 

I just don't know.

 

We lost the game. We did. But man it just feels like something is always up

[Conlan58]

7 hours ago, Simon said:

 

The janitor is allowed to give his opinion too.

Maybe attempt to do it with some class?

[ExiledInIllinois]

4 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:

 

I never said or implied that the game was rigged.

 

So are you sober yet?

I don't drink. LoL...

[BuffaloBillsMagic1]

7 hours ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:

Sorry, I really don’t care what people say. The refs let us down on two HUGE plays. The first was the Worthy catch on the 4 yard line and the second was that horrible disgusting spot on 4th down. The first down marker was at the 40 yard line and about 1/3 of the ball crossed over it. Even Gene Steratore pointed it out. I don’t care how horrible you say the Bills played. They had the game tied at that point and ended up losing by 3 points. In an extremely close game like that, the officiating is absolutely critical. Go ahead and blame it on the defense all you want when the Chiefs pretty much score on everybody. NOBODY can stop them and when they get called for like 3 penalties the entire game, it makes it even harder. The refs threw the Bills a bone just to not make it look blatant, but every call that mattered went against Buffalo. I had my heart absolutely ripped out today and am a little emotional, but I stand by my words. 

The play before the fouth dpwn Kincaid is marked a yard short at least and we would not be discussing Josh's tush push to the left again.  Ref marked it worng on the play prior as well.

 

[Orlando Buffalo]

Best description on Twitter, from just an NFL fan not a Bills fan, Buffalo made plays that  would need competent officiating when they knew that would be unlikely. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

4 hours ago, Man with No Name said:

has it been discussed whether kincaid got screwed out of a first on the play before 4th and one? would be great to have a slow mo replay of that. looks like a first in real time. 

 

not that it matters. 

 

 

Knee was never down and ball was over line to gain.  The ref missed that 3rd & 3... 

 

It was critical in changing the complexion of the game.

 

This sums up things:

 

"Although the Chiefs don’t truly get every call, it’s ones like these in high leverage situations that make people think they do. This game is tight at halftime, and if it stays close there’s going to be another high leverage situations that involve referees."

 

The Bills lost by 3 points... Why do they have to play 2 times the perfection level of the team the League is favoring?  That's an impossible task.

 

 

So Bills lose because they can't be 2 times greater or more than their opponent in high leverage situations.

Edited Monday at 11:11 AM by ExiledInIllinois

[BillsFanNC]

17 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

I don't drink. LoL...

 

Good on ya. It was just the most likely explanation for your bizarre conclusion. 

 

So to summarize my take:

 

The Bills were out coached and out executed.

 

For this I blame the Bills and the coaching staff.

 

The officiating in the NFL is awful. It's a constant. The only question is how the bad officiating is going to swing. Playing on the road especially at the Chiefs yields a very high probability that the bad officiating on balance will not be in your favor. And as expected it wasn't. Was it an egregious example like the Texans game was? Absolutely not. 

 

Either way I do not blame the officials as they did as they always do, I blame the Bills for again not coaching and executing well enough in a one score game to remove this from the equation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Artful Dodger]

When playing the Chiefs in the playoffs next year, the Bills should probably just assume that they need at least 11 yards for a first down to account for the inevitable and consistent bad spots.  

[stlbills13]

Let me say this....the final hit on Allen was NOT roughing the passer. But mahomes gets a flag there every time 

[beebe]

3 hours ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

bu bu bu But there was a flag on the play ! Yup for 5 yds that would have bought ball back 20 tds

 

the worthy completion was best case scenario for bills. without it, chiefs likely drain out the rest of the 1st half clock and kick FG or score TD with minimal time left. So either +3 or +7.

 

instead the chiefs scored quickly, giving bills time to reply before HT. after missed 2-pointer it was merely Chiefs +1 net. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

10 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:

 

Good on ya. It was just the most likely explanation for your bizarre conclusion. 

 

So to summarize my take:

 

The Bills were out coached and out executed.

 

For this I blame the Bills and the coaching staff.

 

The officiating in the NFL is awful. It's a constant. The only question is how the bad officiating is going to swing. Playing on the road especially at the Chiefs yields a very high probability that the bad officiating on balance will not be in your favor. And as expected it wasn't. Was it an egregious example like the Texans game was? Absolutely not. 

 

Either way I do not blame the officials as they did as they always do, I blame the Bills for again not coaching and executing well enough in a one score game to remove this from the equation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't think McD was out coached.  He called a good game.  The other stuff you stated... Yeah... But they converted and Refs ruled it a turnover.  Converted twice.   Hard to win games when a team loses the turnover battle.  A battle the Bills, McD had no control in.

 

Why should the Bills have to play twice as good?  That's absurd!

Edited Monday at 11:45 AM by ExiledInIllinois