Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 10829194)

Probably part of it, but I think reputation and consistent winning has something to do with it, too. It's sort of like how the best pitchers in major league baseball get a bigger strike zone. They sort of earn that privilege over time. Think it's the same way with both NFL teams and quarterbacks. Denver can get away with stuff now that they didn't a couple or three years ago, I think in large part because of Peyton Manning. I think they benefit from calls against the other team for exactly the same reason. Maybe we get the same treatment had we somehow brought him in (as impossible as that was realistically speaking...). Right now we're a crappy franchise that's played crappy ball for most of the last 15 years, and I don't think we either get or have earned a lot of respect or leeway from either the league or the officials. Maybe if we continue to win, if we start to build a reputation on either side of the ball, calls start to go our way. Or maybe not. I do think there's something to what you're saying, we still seem to have some issues with basic technique (like jamming receivers legally).

Originally Posted by Detoxing (Post 10828990)

Denver is much better at making it look natural. I don't know how anyone can see the Fasano play and argue that it wasn't an illegal pick. Fasano was stupidly blatant about it, while Denver receivers are much more slick about it.