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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Exactly.
Let's set aside for the moment the fact that Cheffers seems to rat-**** us at every turn. We'll turn off the 'conspiracy' stuff for the sake of conversation.
Cheffers simply does more than any other official out there to determine outcomes.
Every single season Cheffers leads the league in flags and penalty yards. Like clockwork. He absolutely refuses to let the teams play and ruins the flow of these games. You rarely see a Cheffers game that he doesn't have a direct impact on.
He's absolutely the worst possible official for the Super Bowl because he's GOING to involve the zebras in it. He's going to create controversy.
And the league simply doesn't give a shit.
****ing hell that's irritating.
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I think they like the controversy. They want people going nuts over the calls. It drives engagement.
But mostly they want a close game. They want a ref that completely gifts the trailing team a drive, exactly like Cheffers did with Houston a few weeks ago. Compare some of the ticky tack calls that saved that Texans drive on multiple 3rd downs, with the way the playoff games have been called so far. You pretty much have to tackle a receiver to get a DPI in the postseason *usually*.
It was the same way in the 2020 playoffs. The refs totally swallowed their whistles. Then we got to the Super Bowl and any touch was a penalty, and sometimes we didn't even touch them. Anything that even
looked like it could possibly be defensive holding or illegal contact was called in that first half.
They should have fired Cheffers after that Super Bowl. Instead they gave him the biggest accolade an NFL ref can get - another Super Bowl 2 years later. That tells you everything.
This is really disheartening. I thought for sure after the TB Super Bowl that at least Cheffers would be punished and not ref another SB for a long time, if ever. Instead it's exactly the opposite. You know every other ref sees this and realizes what the league wants, if they want to ref a Super Bowl.