My biggest problem was the holding penalty that took away the Matheiu interception. It was extremely lame and that wasn’t garnered to be called. It changed the entire landscape of the game too. We had the momentum after they stopped the Bucs on the 1 yard line on 4th down and then made that an interception.

And that Matheiu penalty in the endzone was the same bullshit that gave the Bucs 4 points.

JFC - just stop with that stupid line of BS. Other than that, the rest of your post is accurate

The Chiefs were one of the most-penalized teams this year and were absolutely raped by officiating in both of Mahomes’ losses this year.

The refs sucked, yes, but I think it's like a 95% chance we lose the game even if they didn't call a single penalty in the first half.

We got beat. It is what it is.

I usually don't blame the refs either but I think the refs really hurt the Chiefs yesterday. Everything that they called could be called but is rarely called and that just killed any potential change of momentum.

You guys forgot to mention the no call on Pringle near the endzone in the 2nd half, which would have lead to a TD.

That being said, long term I believe all teams get wronged by the refs at the same level. And 49ers last year might have a point that the refs favored the Chiefs. 49ers fans certainly felt this way. The Browns too this year. Maybe even the Bills. So it is fair game I guess.

The Oline was just a complete disaster as everyone has said.

+1

That's exactly where I am. I would be willing to spend some time analyzing how stupid some of those calls were, but in the end I don't think it would have mattered.

It was still very frustrating to watch

The refs were definitely calling weird shit. The holding call on Ward to nullify the INT and the DPI on Mathieu in the end zone were both absolute horseshit. The personal fouls on Jones and Mathieu were also pretty bad.

But we lost this game due to other reasons. If we had come out there fired up and focused, we'd have overcome those penalties like great teams do. Instead the whole team outside of Mahomes, CEH and Butker choked. The biggest issues were:

1) Offensive line play. It was absolute garbage all night. Like, collectively the worst effort I've seen in quite some time. Every man on that line should be embarrassed. Remmers especially has now been a part of two of the worst OL performances in the Super Bowl in the last 20 years probably. Injuries suck but you just cannot expect to consistently win big games with guys like Remmers, Wylie and Wisniewski starting.

If there were any QB back there besides Mahomes, they'd have taken 8+ sacks last night. It took a Herculean effort for him to only take 2.

2) That debacle right before the end of the 1st half was inexcusable. Calling the first timeout or two wasn't a horrible idea, though, I didn't like it. We'd just had 29:30 to score points and only mustered 6. What did we really expect to do with :30 and maybe 1 timeout? But whatever. The timeouts were called so how did the defense allow that big DPI to Mike Evans? And then the DPI on Mathieu in the end zone (should have been illegal contact at worst)?

We should have been content to go into the half down 14-6. We were getting the ball back. At that point, the game's wide open. Instead, we pulled that little stunt, giving up another 7 points and getting humiliated with another 60 yards of penalties in the process. If we let the Bucs kneel out that half, it's potentially a totally different ball game.

3) The defense didn't show up. Gronk probably went over 100 yards and had 2 TDs, we made Fournette/Ronald Jones look like All-Stars and there wasn't nearly enough pressure on Brady after those first couple drives.

4) The pass catchers dropping balls and not winning 1-on-1s. Two miracle throws from Mahomes hit Hill and Williams right on the facemask right at the goal line and they were both dropped. Kelce had a big 3rd down drop that stalled a crucial drive we needed to stop the bleeding. Hardman was targeted/touched the ball probably 6-7 times and gained maybe like 8 yards total. Watkins was invisible. One of Mahomes' INTs was the direct result of Hill waiting for the ball to come to him, which allowed the DB the opportunity to get his hand in to cause the deflection leading to the INT.

The Jones call was 100% correct. In fact he threw a punch and should have been ejected. So the Chiefs actually got one in their favor there.

please stop with the excuses. We sucked. Mahomes sucked. He was TERRIBLE, looked like a rookie out there.

The whole of America is listening to these exuses and laughing even harder than they were last night.

It sucks to be the butt of all these jokes but well have to use it as motivation for next year.

Every team knows you can get under his skin and get him to retaliate and get caught. He needs to play smarter.

5) are punter is a bag of dicks...

Hmm, maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but it seemed like an open-handed palm push. Early in the Super Bowl, that's 100% just a break it up type of situation.

I will agree with the other poster, though, that the league now knows it's easy to bait him into drawing dumbass penalties. I'm sure the league caught wind of the punch he threw against the Bills and that probably contributed to the quick flag this time around.

Point #2, I understand AR taking a timeout trying to get another chance to score before halftime especially with getting the ball 1st in the 2nd. What he didn't count on was 2 bullshit penalties giving TB 44 yards in penalties of the 75 yards they traveled.

How was our defensive line supposed to get any pass rush? The penalties forced the DBs to stop playing aggressive and completely changed any gameplan we had against Brady. Look at those first two drives by the defense. That was our real defense.

But that offense outside of Mahomes was god awful. Horrible blocking. Horrible execution. Horrible play calling.