I think it’s also the fact that Andy claimed that he put other players in Taylor’s spot and were not called. I have no doubt refs hold a grudge. Just look at when the owners added PI to review. They flat out refused to change calls.

Yeah, there are some real questions about the offensive coaching staff that need to be asked. The attention to detail issues are happening every single week.

And we keep hearing "well if we stop shooting ourselves in the foot and start executing, we'll be fine..."

But we're 3/4 of the way through the season and if anything these issues are getting worse.

I get on my kids about using the passive voice when they !@#$ something up. "Daddy my car broke. My room got messy. My sister got hit."

No, fellas - YOU broke the car. You made your room a mess. You hit your sister. These things didn't just happen - you did them.

There's a lot of passive voice being used w/r/t the offense. "The execution wasn't crisp" or "Key mistakes cost us" or "The timing/communication was off..."

Somewhere in this exchange they need to stop with the passive voice. And it doesn't have to be publicly but I question how much of it is happening privately when we're still seeing so much of it. It can't keep being "The timing was off" - no, it needs to be "Skyy rolled his route again and threw the timing off - he's not playing as many snaps next week". Or "the mistakes killed us" becomes "Toney had his head up his ass and didn't manage to line up correctly - have a seat, champ..."

No more passive voice. No more 'the mistakes happened' - now it needs to become 'X,Y,Z made the mistakes - here are the consequences...'

That’s the problem when it comes to the let them play mindset. Had they did the same thing in the SB, KC might have lost. Everyone outside of KC disagreed with the defensive holding that was called. But it was called and in hindsight everyone knows it was a penalty and needed to be called. No difference with the Toney penalty. The photo images show that he wasn’t offsides by a fraction, he was clearly offsides. It was pre snap which meant the line judge had plenty of time to see it. It’s not a missed or called heat of the moment penalty.

Great post, Deej.

so if you are right the refs wanted Buffalo to win so badly why did they overturn Kelce's fumble? A game changing play. The ball was clearly moving and coming out before he was down. One could say the refs were for cheating for KC. And the week before two huge calls went for KC the plays before the PI call. So your the NFL want the Chiefs to lose narrative is very flawed to say the least.

Too much celebrity, and not enough football.

Even if it was ruled a fumble there was a clear recovery by Kelce. But I get what you're saying. If the team could play just a little better, they wouldn't be in these super tight games. Damn this one hurts real bad. What a great play by Kelce with that lateral.

We desperately miss EB

Everyone admits it's standard practice to give a warning to a player/coach before calling offensive offenses (one of the reasons it's so rare).

The refs claim Toney was "egregiously" offsides, and that's why no warning was given.

The fact is Toney gained zero advantage with this alignment, which is the entire point of a penalty in the first place.

The first offensive offsides penalty in Reid's long career happens to come with under two minutes to play in the fourth quarter of what amounts to a playoff game. And it happens in the same season in which the Chiefs have been repeatedly held to a different standard than the rest of the league when it comes to alignment/offsides penalties.

A lot of our fans "hate to blame the refs" but let's be real here. Refs can absolutely determine outcomes against two evenly-matched teams.

I'm with Andy Reid on this one. I think that guy has seen a thing or two, and he RARELY says a word about the refs.

It’s pretty clear he was lined up across the LOS. Anyone have a video or pic of the next play where the defender was across the LOS? I missed the play and haven’t seen a pic.

Yes he does. Last night might have been a wakeup call for him, but he's hit snooze button too many times to think he won't press snooze again.

Point is that Toney never should have put them in a position to allow the ref to determine the outcome.

He was blatantly offsides and the NFL has made offensive players lining up offsides a point of emphasis this season... this was like the 11th or 12th offensive offsides call this season.

Instead of crying about the refs, Andy should hold his WR's more accountable for their embarrassing play.

No one here can honestly believe that out of the 25,172 offensive snaps of Reid's career, this is the first time one of his players has lined up offsides on offense. That's ludicrous.

If there were zero advantage to lining up on the opposite side of the ball, it wouldn't be ****ing illegal to do so.

Good grief, guys.