This is how the NFL rigs games

[rabblerouser]

The refs really showed out for the Bungles today.

**** the NFL.

[comochiefsfan]

Originally Posted by wachashi

I would like to see a close up of the Ward penalty. I get the feeling the refs don’t make both of those calls (maybe one, not both) if the game was played at Arrowhead. It’s easier to keep the flag in the pocket if you know the crowd will have your back. Just like it’s easier to throw it if you know the crowd will cheer.

I honestly think they would've. It would be one thing if they were ticky tack calls, but both were honestly about as egregious as it gets.

Ward brought Chase all the way to the ground. A capper to an absolutely atrocious game for him.

I'm mad about the PI on Sneed, and the roughing on Sneed, and the missed false starts. But I don't have any problem with those calls on the goal line. Our corners blew it.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by comochiefsfan

I honestly think they would've. It would be one thing if they were ticky tack calls, but both were honestly about as egregious as it gets.

Ward brought Chase all the way to the ground. A capper to an absolutely atrocious game for him.

I'm mad about the PI on Sneed, and the roughing on Sneed, and the missed false starts. But I don't have any problem with those calls on the goal line. Our corners blew it.

Did you see any missed holds that the O-lines committed? Or do rules just not matter there?

In b4 "there's a hold on every play" and/or "that's not a hold (grabbing the jersey), that's only a hold in the defensive secondary"...

[dolphinsneu]

Originally Posted by milkshock

Not really seen many (any?) games where we have to thank the refs for giving us a game we would otherwise have lost , have you ?


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The biggest example would be the 2019 game against the Patriots in the regular season.

Also, another question. About the Dee Ford offsides penalty. What difference does it make when the flag was thrown? He was clearly offsides. This was a correct call, was it not?

[dolphinsneu]

In the defensive secondary, the NFL rulebook states, "Any grab of the jersey is a penalty" Of course, this is not the way it is adjudicated

[notorious]

Originally Posted by Titty Meat

Jesus man we would have 6 hour games if they made everything reviewable

And they’d still **** it up.

[wachashi]

What do the NFL writers have in store for the Chargers vs Raiders game? Both have compelling stories and are in new markets. Can anyone with access to the script share how the storyline plays out?

[Curé]

Originally Posted by wachashi

What do the NFL writers have in store for the Chargers vs Raiders game? Both have compelling stories and are in new markets. Can anyone with access to the script share how the storyline plays out?

apparently they keep a tight lid on the script until after all the games have been played. then all the nostradumbasses come out and tell us how it was fixed all along. convenient.

[Halfcan]

Originally Posted by comochiefsfan

I honestly think they would've. It would be one thing if they were ticky tack calls, but both were honestly about as egregious as it gets.

Ward brought Chase all the way to the ground. A capper to an absolutely atrocious game for him.

I'm mad about the PI on Sneed, and the roughing on Sneed, and the missed false starts. But I don't have any problem with those calls on the goal line. Our corners blew it.

How about the borderline late hit on Mahomes by Hendrickson?

Then he drove Mahomes to the ground and flopped on him with his full weight- the very definition of a penalty-NO CALL!

[LongSufferingToady]

The refs were atrocious. This has got to be the most incompetent crew in the NFL.

I don't know about rigged games. I wouldn't be surprised if it were true.

But Andy should have raised a stink on the officiating, even if he got penalized for it.

That's why baseball coaches charge the plate and yell at the umpire; not to change the call; but to make sure the umpire knows it better not happen again.

Hell, I'd pay good money to see Andy walk on the field and get in the ref's face.

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by LongSufferingToady

The refs were atrocious. This has got to be the most incompetent crew in the NFL.

I don't know about rigged games. I wouldn't be surprised if it were true.

But Andy should have raised a stink on the officiating, even if he got penalized for it.

That's why baseball coaches charge the plate and yell at the umpire; not to change the call; but to make sure the umpire knows it better not happen again.

Hell, I'd pay good money to see Andy walk on the field and get in the ref's face.

The fact that Andy Reid said "I don't wanna get fined so I won't say anything" which is coach speak for "we got jobbed" tells me all I need to know. He rarely talks about refs after a game.

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Curé

apparently they keep a tight lid on the script until after all the games have been played. then all the nostradumbasses come out and tell us how it was fixed all along. convenient.

Jesus you're ****ing stupid.

Probably an NFL disinformation agent.

No one can with any semblance of deductive logic and cognitive reasoning can honestly say they watched that game on Sunday and that it was a legitimate sporting contest with equality in officiating and that the best team won, right?

So go **** yourself with your smarmy, uninformed and downright ignorant comments.

If you want to discuss what you saw like an adult, you can do that.

Otherwise, you prove what we are saying when "and people will explain anything away" is a reason why the NFL doesn't care that it's obviously rigged. You won't question it.

You ARE the rube that the NFL is counting on to be their core audience.

Congratulations!

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by LongSufferingToady

The refs were atrocious. This has got to be the most incompetent crew in the NFL.

That's the rub - ARE they that 'atrocious'...or are they doing what the NFL wants, and by proxy, actually doing their jobs well?

I know if it appeared that I was THAT terrible at my job, then I would be fired. As would most all of us. Players and coaches too.

The refs are the only ones allowed to seemingly **** up over and over again...and the coaches and players have a veritable ****ing GAG ORDER in re: to officiating and will get in TROUBLE if they even talk about it.

What the **** is THAT shit?

Originally Posted by LongSufferingToady

I don't know about rigged games. I wouldn't be surprised if it were true.

Me neither. Seems like it's a thing.

Originally Posted by LongSufferingToady

But Andy should have raised a stink on the officiating, even if he got penalized for it.

He did, on the field and mentioned it in his presser.

Originally Posted by LongSufferingToady

That's why baseball coaches charge the plate and yell at the umpire; not to change the call; but to make sure the umpire knows it better not happen again.

Hell, I'd pay good money to see Andy walk on the field and get in the ref's face.

Andy isn't that kind of coach.

[BlackOp]

Originally Posted by LongSufferingToady

The refs were atrocious. This has got to be the most incompetent crew in the NFL.

I don't know about rigged games. I wouldn't be surprised if it were true.

How many decades of "atrocious" one-sided officiating does it take before the fans catch on to the ruse?

NFL has a monopoly product...and the brilliance is it's also inter-woven in the cultural fabric of their local communities....while also being one huge corporate conglomerate....it's no different than having a McDonald's franchise in Miami and one in New Orleans.

The difference is people emotionally attach themselves to one of the local franchises...which doesn't happen with a Taco Bell.

Kansas City - Chiefs + BBQ
Cincinnati - Bengals +Skyline Chili

Online gambling is going to be the downfall of the NFL....it used to be contained to only Vegas and the like. Now it's like a cancer...way too much easy money to make. Shave a few points here...shave a few points there and make 100's of millions.

It's a toxic combination of billion dollar network deals contingent on ratings...and point spreads.

I knew this was ultimately coming the moment the NFL signed on with casinos as a partnership...this is just the first season of it too.

NFL has forgotten that the allure of their product was athletic competition..when this comes into question...nobody will care.

People sitting around wondering how all these top teams keeps losing to dregs..and dont know who is any good anymore. Well get used to it...this is the "New Normal".

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by Mecca

It's not even mildly fishy that the Patriots were a joke for decades...wanted to move somewhere else...

Bob Kraft comes in, saves football in Boston and magically they're the best ever. I've always felt like he was rewarded for bailing out the league with that team.

To expand :

Bob Kraft, the CEO of Viacom, buys the Patriots, saves football in Boston, and the NFC moved from CBS to FOX...then, when NBC's AFC contract was up...Bob Kraft's Viacom-owned CBS gots the contract for the AFC, so Bobby's Patsies have been on his network since

You can't make that shit up.

[TwistedChief]

Is it not possible that officiating is just an imperfect and difficult assignment tasked to individuals who are fallible and forced to process a multitude of things at the same time? And is it not possible that there's a huge selectivity bias where you happen to remember vividly the games like Sunday where the Chiefs clearly were on the wrong side of the officiating stick but will completely ignore other games when the same dynamic ends up favoring them?

rabble, the Dee Ford neutral zone infraction is singularly the most important penalty in Chiefs history, and your memory of that wasn't even remotely accurate as you clung to a narrative that suited this view that Brady always gets the calls and the Chiefs get nothing.

I look forward to the next time the Chiefs benefit from 3 more bad calls in a game than the other team and the thread someone starts claiming the NFL is rigged in the team's favor.