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Originally Posted by Megatron96
Lol, when did I say either of those flags were weak?
Anyway, at least of the holding calls on Taylor was a weak call. The second one, iirc, wasn't holding.
The unnecessary roughness on Roquon (when he jumped off-sides and ran into Trey) was kind of weak.
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No, I disagree drastically. Smith took a full run and absolutely DRILLED a stationary player on purpose. They have to protect offensive linemen there.
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Originally Posted by Megatron96
The flag against BAL after the altercation between Travis and Queen or whoever was pretty weak for a playoff game.
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Again, disagree. Van Noy came running in AFTER the officials began separating players, and head butted Kelce in the helmet.
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Originally Posted by Megatron96
And KC committed DPI at least twice that wasn't called.
And there were probably a couple more, but I haven't rewatched the game and I missed part of the first quarter.
But again, the refs this season have been terrible, so it's not like any of this was a surprise.
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In all, the officiating crew missed some big things on both ends. You can point to 6 points and a possession off the board for the Chiefs and make a good case the bad holding calls and missed tripping penalty were more impactful than anything that went the Chiefs' way.
Take away either of the holds on Smith and the Chiefs go into halftime up 21-7. Call the trip in the end zone and give KC a safety to go up 19-7 with the ball and about 10 minutes left in the game. At BEST for Baltimore, the Chiefs kill about 2.5 minutes of clock in that spot. But considering KC probably starts with a little better field position (say, the 37 instead of the 25) and only needs about 25-30 yards to get into make-able FG range, it could have been a lot worse.