Cheffers should be investigated.
 

Please post this story on all your social media. This referee needs to be investigated and likely removed from the league altogether.



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NFL Referee Exposed for Potential Bias Against Chiefs
Adam Taylor McKillop
By Adam Taylor McKillop
10:58 AM EST
An NFL referee has been exposed for potential bias against the Kansas City Chiefs.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">21.9% of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chiefs</a> penalties have occurred in 14% of their games this season: the two games that were officiated by Carl Cheffers and his group. <br><br>For two seasons in a row, Kansas City is the second most penalized team by Cheffers and his crew. <a href="https://t.co/e01JeClJZR">pic.twitter.com/e01JeClJZR</a></p>&mdash; Preston Farr (@preston_b_farr) <a href="https://twitter.com/preston_b_farr/status/1604704323417833472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The Kansas City Chiefs escaped NRG Stadium in Houston, TX with a gritty overtime win over the Houston Texans. Kansas City's win kept them firmly atop the AFC standings with a strong 11-3 record and a great opportunity to grab the No. 1 seed in the conference come playoffs.

Sunday's win was no easy task, especially thanks to the officiating of Carl Cheffers. Week 15 was yet another incident of Cheffers displaying some potential bias against the Chiefs when he failed to throw a flag on Maliek Collins obvious roughing the passer penalty.

Some quick research from FanSided's Preston Farr exposed Cheffers for his suspicious track record against Patrick Mahomes and his squad.

According to Farr's research, 21.9% of Kansas City's total penalties have occurred in 14% of their games thus far (the two officiated by Cheffers).

He added that this now marks the second season in a row in which Cheffers' crews penalize the Chiefs at the second-highest rate in football. Keep in mind, Andy Reid and his squad play one of the cleanest versions of football in the entire NFL. Through Week 15, the Chiefs pick up the 6th-fewest penalties per game.

They average just 5.1 per game. On Sunday, Cheffers and his crew flagged Kansas City a total of 10 times.

Because we didn't have enough threads on this schmuck already

None of those have this type of confirmed information in them. They are just whining. One of them is not even about Cheffers. Someone might need to put this old dog out of his misery.

It’s hard to believe the NFL can’t get better officiating in this day and age

The only opponent I'm worried about playing in the postseason is Carl Cheffers.

They. Are. Getting. Exactly. What. They. Want.

Why is this so hard for people to understand? I really can't comprehend it.

The stats don't seem that damning. Actually shows Cheffers screwed a couple of other teams as much or more. Just that it's two years in a row for the Chiefs.

Sports gambling about to clean this shit up for us.

Cheffers has worked superbowls, that means he's doing the job the NFL wants him to do.

And Clete Blakeman.

That crew should not be in the postseason at all.

Cheffers has been blatantly trying to tilt games against KC for a couple years now at least. Regardless of whether he's investigated, he should be fired. There's no place in the sport at any level for a ref that will call a game the way Cheffers has vs. the Chiefs. It's disgraceful.

Does anyone actually think the League doesn’t see this and can’t fix it?

The know it. They can fix it. They don’t.

It’s that simple.

Since the day Travis Kelce said he shouldn't work at a foot locker it got way worse...it's personal.

Seems like NFL should take that into consideration before assigning this guy to KC games. He is not capable of being objective after the Kelce comment.

Is there a similar article about San Francisco? :hmmm:

That is why Cheffers not only needs to be publicly outed but the NFL needs to be forced to remove him.

I don't think the NFL cares.

Yep, then the Arrowhead crowd made him cry like a bitch on national television. LMAO

You can't comprehend why people don't buy into pure speculation hook, line, and sinker, when there are always so many questions that go ignored and unanswered because it doesn’t fit into a narrative that's mostly made up as we go along?

I mean, I wouldn't doubt some of these refs have money on games given how incompetent they are, but most of the rigged stuff is reeruned and more convoluted than NFL rules.

He basically stood front and center yesterday and raised his 2 middle fingers to Arrowhead stadium, that was Carl Cheffers yesterday.

What was that asshole's excuse for having those games against us before the Kelce comment? He has always had it in for the Chiefs.

If a ref everyone agrees is doing a poor job works SB's or heads up the all star ref crew etc...Cheffers and Blakeman all that says to me is the refs we think are awful are the ones the NFL thinks are doing the best job...what's that say?

Moar

I don’t buy into a lot of conspiracy theories. But his record against the spread is extremely hard to ignore. Hard not to suspect some kind of funny business.

I posted in Mecks thread that I think the shit crews are in someone’s pocket. But I think they’re betting halves. Cheffers didn’t call a bad first half. He called the helmet to helmet for juju and they didn't call a pretty egregious DPI on Sneed.

Then shit got desperate in that drive where they flagged Thornhill and McKinnon for not initiating contact. They can’t be the same staff seeing the same game in the same environment on the same day. Someone took the Texans spread second half and expected Cheffers to Deliver.

I'm surprised the no call on the Mahomes sack isn't getting more national media attention. That was a textbook example of what the league wants eliminated. That was Cheffer's call to make and he chose not to throw the flag.

I don't buy into the fact that there is a conspiracy or anything is rigged. I do think some refs are just incompetent and some like Cheffers hold personal grudges that impact their decisions.

That the NFL is a huge cash cow and doesn't care what fans think.

Sure, I get why people think the things they think, given how little accountability there is for awful refs... but a company giving no shits about having a shit product doesn't mean without a shadow of a doubt that everything is rigged.... it just means they don't care (at a minimum).

And of course, everyone here who has the theory that it's all rigged/steered/whatever has slight variations on who's involved and to what extent, ect; yet are all absolutely convinced their specifications theory is the correct one, so it's hard to keep up week to week on how it all works.

How in a country with minimal firearm control is this guy still breathing?

Investigated?

So, how exactly do you envision that happening?

That play did seem to conflict with the spirit of protecting quarterbacks, but what rule specifically was broken to cite as a penalty? You can't go low at a QB's knees - that's an explicit rule. You can't land with your full body weight on a QB - that's an explicit rule. You can't hit a QB late after releasing the ball - that's an explicit rule. No helmet to helmet contact - that's an explicit rule. None of those occurred. Other than being aggressive, what was the violation?

I’d be curious what the season per game average number of penalties and penalty yardage of chiefs opponents are compared to what is called against them in Cheffers officiated chiefs games. It seems like they are getting called for about four per game.

That is the other side of the equation. If those teams are all well below their seasonal average in chiefs/Cheffers games, that could show that the bias is being applied both ways, which really puts the squeeze on the teams chances of winning.

Yeah, and I get that Cheffers could have something personal about Kelce. But, and this is just my opinion, the last couple three years it's gone beyond Kelce to the entire team, and now he just doesn't care how it looks. that punch or slap to Mahomes' head was egregious. That's a flag regardless, the rules are pretty clear about it. And where did that guy get the idea he could do that?

Anyway, not going down that rabbit hole, but Cheffers is dirty, for whatever reasons and he should be excommunicated forthwith.

Cheffers bias against the Chiefs is well documented.

The Super Bowl vs the Bucs when he called 12 penalties vs the Chiefs… including SIX that resulted in first downs for Tampa. Even the media former refs/turned analysts criticized him for that performance.

And he called that questionable holding call vs Eric Fisher on the tying 2 point conversion play vs Pittsburgh in the playoffs. Kelce after the game said Cheffers shouldn’t even be allowed to work at Foot Locker.

Unnecessary roughness exists for all players, not just QB's. Slamming the guy's head to the fake turf (ahem...borderline concrete) was not necessary. If they really are trying to stop the concussions and other head injuries, they need to penalize that type of play when it happens. Otherwise the refs are encouraging the guys to keep doing it.

I can see unnecessary roughness, but then it becomes a judgement call rather than an obvious objective violation. I didn't like it, but I can see how it went uncalled.

When tackling a passer who is in a defenseless posture (e.g., during or just after throwing a pass), a defensive player must not unnecessarily or violently throw him down or land on top of him with all or most of the defender’s weight. Instead, the defensive player must strive to wrap up the passer with the defensive player’s arms and not land on the passer with all or most of his body weight.

From the NFL website, section b on this page

https://operations.nfl.com/the-rules...ng-the-passer/

Anyone have a replay of the non roughing play?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If you&#39;re wondering why Chiefs fans hate Cheffers: The first play was deemed legal, the second was &quot;unnecessary roughness&quot; <a href="https://t.co/BAvvC1y5wK">pic.twitter.com/BAvvC1y5wK</a></p>&mdash; Brett Gering (@BrettGering) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrettGering/status/1604572030996811776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Not true with field turf. There are several inches of rubber below the tirf.

There have been several sacks, maybe more than a dozen, that were flagged this season for the exact same technique. Plus, the rules explicitly state, "when in doubt, throw the flag."

There's no excuse in Mahomes' instance for not throwing that flag.

If I'm not mistaken one of the Eagles got a roughing the passer for spinning while sacking qb and threw him down it wasn't as hard. It was in the game they lost on final drive I think.

Oh look. Douchebag mod that band people from the GDT thread for calling out refs comes in here to tell us that it's all legit. I'm shocked!!

Dude has to be gambling.

Is it Cheffers or his crew? Do all of them have a vendetta or just him? I just wonder if he is the one calling the penalties or his crew. If it’s his crew are they doing it because of his orders?

https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/show...=346562&page=2

I posted a 2nd angle of Kelce's roughing call as well as the Thornhill Holding call being a serious wtf moment too lolz

Post #92

LMAO

Well Kelce did the jerking off thing to Cheffers, then the foot locker comment and then he threw his towel at a ref and got ejected..

It's very possible refs in general don't like Kelce and it bleeds to the calls.

Succinct

Douchebag mod did douchebag mod things and banned user from thread, not wanting to disappoint on douchebag mod expectations.

And Cheffers sounded like he was about to piss himself at Arrowhead on national TV... definitely didn't bode well.

Several inches? I don't think that is true.

Mahomes still had the ball because it was fumbled at the snap.

Good Lord, you are a moron. We still have laws. You can't just go shoot somebody without consequences. As much as we'd like to do something about this terrible ref who seems to have it out for the chiefs, nobody wants to go to prison for it. Not to mention, most of us have values/ethics and would never do something like that, not even to someone we hate.

So almost a quarter of the Chiefs' penalties have occurred in the two games that this douchebag officiated.

Seems legit.

While I agree, I haven't noticed the same penalties being called for several weeks now. There was a big hububb about it early in the year and then they seemed to have stopped happening. I wonder if the league told their officiating crews to stop calling that so tight. Of course, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be called at all.

Bro.....just......stop. :shake:

Bitch slapping him a few times will suffice.

Good question. I, too, have wondered how that would work.

Boy, have I heard that before.

This definitely going to end with the NFL sticking us with Cheffers in the playoffs to prove a point.

Absolutely, in fact they will start assigning him even more after that.

Hopefully no one is that stupid... Win or lose, it is a game, this guy shouldn't be officiating, but come on...

Andy and Clark need to go behind the scenes and talk to the league about this bs. If you don't want it so obvious and out in the open at least take care of it in private.

Screw that crybaby. Nobody threw things, they just yelled at him.

100% deserved.

There's a difference between "letting them play," and turning a blind eye to blatant fouls. I want the refs to let them play, just short of the point of blatant fouls. Everyone does, I think. The ticky-tack shit sucks almost as bad as the 'I see NUH-THING!" crap. There is a middle ground, and the good ref crews used to be able to work in that window. Steratore was one.

But what Cheffers did, and what that crew did in the NYG/WAS game was absurd.

By my count, Houston got 6 first downs via penalty. 5 of those were on 3rd down. Color me shocked.

Lol. It ain't South American soccer. Deep down we still know it's just a game.

Welp, unless you have money riding on it. I would never do such lolz

This is why there needs to be an extensive effort to get this all over the NFL media. The NFL would not be able to continue to implement this ****ing POS referee.
This effort can include Clete Blakeman and any others that have shown bias against any and every NFL team.

Cheffers is shaving points, I am just about ****ing certain.

It's always when it looks like we're about to take off and just boat race somebody that the flags come out, and they're so often really shit calls.

I mean, I accept penalties when you can see on the replay that it was indeed a penalty. But like...that illegal contact on Thornhill, who was standing in a football stance and the receiver ran into him? How the **** is that a penalty on the defense? And he did that shit to us in SB 55, too.

This guy is a crook and a fraud. There WILL be a big scandal, you just wait.

Nah, you can't spread it around; that would dilute the impact. Bury Cheffers (or Clete or whoever) first.

Focus on one dipshit at a time.

It'll send a message when that guy is sent packing, and the rest will toe the right line, or they'll get a pink slip in their mailbox.

Amendment: Okay, maybe three of the crooked bastages. But it can't be a page-long list; then it will be diluted because people start disbelieving a conspiracy. Two or three numbnuts will be believed, 30 won't.

Move along, nothing to see here/nfl

Nothing will happen. NFL will never admit this occured.

Why do something about it when you can just bet ATS when Cheffers calls a game.

That's part of what Donaghy did, knew the beefs and the resulting bias.

Its totally legit. The same day Beady got that bs roughing call the same thing happened to Mahomes and there was no call.

How long have I been saying
#investigatecarlcheffers

????

Don’t you leave Clete ****ing Blakeman off that list. That bitch always has a flag fest with us too.

Chiefsaholic wasted his opportunity!