The referees for Sunday game.
 

Chiefs at Bills, 6:30 p.m. CBS PARAMOUNT+
Shawn Hochuli is the referee, who is in his 10th season and 6th as referee. This is Hochuli’s 8th postseason assignment, including a Wild Card Playoff and 7 Divisional Playoffs.


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LJ 47 Tim Podraza 16 Hochuli Nebraska business performance consultant
FJ 90 Anthony Flemming 4 Hussey Texas A&M-Commerce senior auditor
SJ 103 Eugene Hall 10 Cheffers North Texas federal agent
BJ 78 Greg Meyer 22 Eck Texas Christian banker
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I didn't even know ****ing Ed Hochuli had a son reff'ing too, ****

I heard somewhere today that the Bills fans are pissed, hate this crew and Bills are 1-3 with them averaging 10 penalties per game

At least it’s not Carl Butt****ing Cheffers

I hope they have preteen Swifty daughters whom they’re scared to disappoint

He was the ref for the first Chiefs/Broncos and Chiefs/Pats game.

Against Denver there were 7 accepted penalties against KC for 84 yards.

Against the Pats there were 2 accepted penalties against KC for 15 yards.

https://www.nflpenalties.com/game/de...efs-10-12-2023

How to fix the NFL referee problem in 3 easy steps:

1) Allow additional challenge criteria (AKA: Pass Interference, hands to the face, etc) It will add an extra 15 minutes to the game time, big whoop.
2) Make them full time employees that get paid well.
3) Make them accountable for bad calls. (Fines > Suspensions > Termination)

Assholes at Deadspin at it again. At least they're not using their power and platform to slander innocent children this time.

If you already think the Kansas City Chiefs get all the calls...
The team is 8-2 when Shawn Hochuli is refereeing — and he'll lead the officiating crew in Buffalo on Sunday

Good news, Chiefs fans. Shawn Hochuli will be the referee for Kansas City’s AFC Divisional round game against the Buffalo Bills.

Hochuli has officiated 10 of Kansas City’s games in the Patrick Mahomes era, with the Chiefs going 8-2 in those contests. In the playoffs, KC is 2-0 with Hochuli reffing.

This season, Hochuli was in charge of officiating two Chiefs games, which were both KC wins over New England and Denver.

While that may appear to be good news for the AFC’s No. 3 seed, it certainly seems to be the opposite for Buffalo.

The Bills were penalized 40 times for 347 yards in the last four games that Hochuli has reffed. That includes this season’s OT loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

In that one game, Hochuli called Buffalo for 11 penalties — one more than he called against New England in two games. The Bills lost the sixth-most yards under a Hochuli-led crew this year.

“Hochuli is known for calling a penalty-filled game,” wrote Chris Owen for WYRK radio’s website. “He’s also the head official for the Bills game in Philadelphia, where the crew missed an obvious horse-collar tackle on Josh Allen, which likely would have resulted in a red zone touchdown.”

This data doesn’t help the ongoing notion that Kansas City gets most of the calls in its favor. :hmmm: In those two wins with Hochuli and crew officiating, the Chiefs were only hit with nine penalties for 99 yards.

Back in October, Pete Grathoff of the Kansas City Star wrote about two fourth-quarter calls — PI against L’Jarius Sneed, and no flag for him removing his helmet — that fans/viewers believe were “slanted in favor of the Chiefs.”

He says KC doesn’t get any special treatment, because Dean Blandino, the former ref turned Fox Sports rules analyst said so.

“I know that’s a popular narrative around fans who say they’re a successful team, they’re gonna get the call, that stuff tends to even out over the course of time,” Blandino said in an interview on The Drive, a Kansas City sports radio station (KCSP 610 AM).

https://deadspin.com/kansas-city-chiefs-buffalo-bills-shawn-hochuli-nfl-afc-1851176991

Indeed. Indeed. :clap:

The NFL can make literally anything happen on planet Earth that they want to, but for some *cRaZy* reason they won't do these very simple things.

Wonder why? :hmmm:

I mean people keep posting shit like this about how simple the solution is, all you're doing is proving the point of those of us who understand why things are the way they are.

They. Want. It. This. Way.

I support 1 and 3, but regarding 2 they already get paid an ungodly amount of money. If there is value to making them full-time, they could just do so without paying them more and I'll bet almost nobody resigns.

heh. I used to work with someone who's brother is the line judge for this game.

If we get a nonsense offensive offsides call, I know who/where to go!

What other sport do we even know the names of the referees? Do we even care outside of the NFL? Other sports commentators never mention the ref by name. It is like they have inserted themselves into the game/storylines.