Rigged? who knows. Influenced by refs when it shouldn't be? Absolutely. It's the old saying in sports, let the players on the field determine who wins. If it's not influenced intentionally, then the league needs to tell the refs to quit calling stuff that doesn't matter, and they need to allow the "eye in the sky" to overrule calls on the field on all penalties called or uncalled. Of course, that will never happen due to time restraints.
Having said all that, I said right before the 3rd and 27 play, "I don't care if they get 20 yards here, double team both widouts and play a mid depth dime package" and they blitzed. Now, maybe they break up the pass and then the refs screw the CHiefs on the next drive. We will never know.
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