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Originally Posted by Brooklyn
You see how little time they needed to shift the game back in LA’s favor. They have a wide margin of error. Give KC a ton of calls throughout the game to create reasonable doubt that it’s “fair” and then pull the trigger at the right times to gift wrap the win. No one is saying it’s favored exclusively to one side. We know KC got a fair amount of calls. Refs knew all along how far was too far though and gave themself the wiggle room to have the chargers win in the end. I mean, look at Oakland last year. 4 untimed downs?!?! Or however many it was, I don’t remember, but they gave themselves the out.
What would happen if they no called harris’ false start like they did on many charger TDs this year? How about if they gave Mahomes the arodgers treatment and let him air out all of the offsides instead of blowing it dead. Those are examples of reining the game in to not let it get too far and still preserve their ability to decide the game in a 5 minute window.
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Agree with this except that the refs don’t do it deliberately. Too much at stake to be exposed this badly.
Number of penalties, their yardage, etc mean nothing if they don’t get called in crunch time. Chiefs can play a penalty free game while the other team has 100 plus yards until one second remaining for a convenient holding call against the Chiefs that leads to a game winning FG.