I mean, sure, cry about the officiating all you want. Cry that there's some invisible force that wants to **** us over because Chiefs.

Why was the grounding call on Newton BS... do you think he was outside the pocket or are you saying there was clearly a receiver in the area?

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Then the refs aren’t doing their jobs properly. That fits the NFL is rigged theory because that is blatant bias.

He was outside the pocket, or at least close enough that if say Brady had tossed that it wouldn't get flagged. It was literally a game changing call in a pretty good game to that point.

Yet somehow because he threw his towel or because Peters threw a flag "they deserve it".

How anyone can say the refs are biased against the Chiefs after that Bills "roughing" call is beyond me. They just suck ****ing shit and they aren't held accountable for it.

My point is the NFL officials are biased in general the Chiefs happen to be a "have not" team so is Buffalo.

Titans aren’t going to get the benefit of early whistles against NE. And if they spear a Patriot player expect about a dozen flags to fly at once.

For those who missed the Rams/Watkins getting screwed over, here is a link

https://www.sbnation.com/2018/1/6/16...rams-wild-card

Personally, I'm fine with an NHL approach to the game - to let players get a little more physical at the end of games, but even with such a view Watkins got screwed.

I believe that refs "push" games a certain direction sometimes, but even if that is not the case - the officiating is absolutely terrible and its getting worse as bad calls, of the game altering kind, happen far too often, and there is no recourse. There needs to be a way to challenge them. :shrug:

Besides, if the refs want to push things in a certain direction, they can always not make a call and let things go. If they don't call a hold here or there, it can have the same results as a bad call.

Exactly. We're not alone... It's a star driven league. Maybe if Mahomes turns into an elite QB, that will change.

That is grounding, but I've seen it not called in many worse cases than that.

The game this past Sat proved the refs don't do their jobs properly. But "proper" is up for debate, as is seemingly every rule interpretation.

The Falcons DB's in that game were repeatedly early on balls, basically daring officials to flag them.

Easy Fix.

Make every call reviewable/reservable/challengable. I don't care how long games take, it will be RIGHT.