Originally Posted by TRR:
I’m not a conspiracy theorist but this game had that WWE feeling from the VERY beginning. While I don’t think the NFL cares about who ultimately wins, I do believe they have an agenda, and want close games particularly Nationally televised games like Thursday night. It felt like the Refs/NFL didn’t want the Chiefs to pull away last night especially when they went up two TD’s under five minutes.
I don’t know if I’m jaded with all the comebacks against KC in the past but as soon as the Chargers started driving down 14 under 4 or 5 minutes you could almost turn off the game and feel confident you knew what was going to occur. From the penalties to burying KC deep with a penalty before KC’s last terrible offensive drive.
There’s a lot of blame to go around. I didn’t expect much from the team this year and Mahomes has been a blast to watch. I hate saying this though...the defense is SO BAD it takes all the fun out of watching Mahomes and the offense go to work. I mean SOOOO BAAAAD from the very beginning. With all that said...I can’t help but think there was a larger agenda at hand last night. Similar to the Rams game in the sense that everyone wanted a high scoring, high flying game. And guess what they got.
Can't sit here and bitch about getting shafted when they missed a ton of calls against KC too. There was a stretch of a bunch of ticky-tack calls against LA followed by no-calls for worse by KC. The NFL didn't gift shit, the Chiefs just fucking blew the game. [Reply]
Originally Posted by kccrow:
Can't sit here and bitch about getting shafted when they missed a ton of calls against KC too. There was a stretch of a bunch of ticky-tack calls against LA followed by no-calls for worse by KC. The NFL didn't gift shit, the Chiefs just ****ing blew the game.
Chargers didn't lead in that game until :04 seconds left and back-to back call/no call...keep rationalizing, It's what they want.
It's infotainment now...Paris Hilton of the sporting world. The more epic...the better.
Just another cog in the dumbing-down of America. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RickObie:
If you truly believe it’s rigged you need to stop watching - why why would the NFL want the Chargers to get HFA and have everyone watch the. Play in front of 20k fans at a soccer stadium - come on - face it our defense sucks and it has for years.
They want the Chargers franchise to succeed. They are struggling with their fan base and want them to bring in the money. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BlackOp:
Chargers didn't lead in that game until :04 seconds left and back-to back call/no call...keep rationalizing, It's what they want.
It's infotainment now...Paris Hilton of the sporting world. The more epic...the better.
Just another cog in the dumbing-down of America.
You really ought to watch the game and track all of the penalties and missed calls and give me a report. Then, if you still believe in your theory you have something to substantiate it other than believing one call at the end of the game made the Chiefs lose. [Reply]
Originally Posted by kccrow:
You really ought to watch the game and track all of the penalties and missed calls and give me a report. Then, if you still believe in your theory you have something to substantiate it other than believing one call at the end of the game made the Chiefs lose.
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Originally Posted by kccrow:
You really ought to watch the game and track all of the penalties and missed calls and give me a report. Then, if you still believe in your theory you have something to substantiate it other than believing one call at the end of the game made the Chiefs lose.
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.
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. [Reply]
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.
Irony of all ironies, same crew worked the Thursday Night game as the Oakland game last year.
If LA would've missed the 2pter, the same BJ would have thrown flag after flag until they got in. It's what they do. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BlackOp:
What happened last night and in the Rams game isn't any different than what happened in the Jags/Patriots ACFCC. That game was decided due to ratings and a fear of Bortles in the SB.
That Miles Jax play was such BS.
Hell, iirc, the Titans were straight punching NE in the mouth last year in the playoffs until the refs got involved. [Reply]