The refs were definitely a lot harder on the Bengals in this last half, though the personal foul on Ossai was a slam dunk.
Bitching about officiating is a cottage industry.
In general, I hate the roughness calls we get when a QB is playing games on the sidelines. There are so many times QBs have capitalized on defensive players being afraid to hit them and backing off and the QB gets an extra yard or two. So in critical situations, the defenders are forced to be more hands-on with the QB on the sideline, but almost always get called for unnecessary roughness. I remember Peyton even getting away with fake slides for an extra yard or two all the time, drove me nuts.
Once a QB is beyond the line of scrimmage he should be treated as a runner. It is absolute bullshit that they’re deliberately exploiting the defenders who are afraid to hit them by squeezing out the extra yards.
Treat Mahomes as a runner, and Ossai’s late hit is still a penalty.
Yes!
Chiefs!
While in general I agree with this statement, that hit on Mahomes was a penalty no matter who was carrying the ball.
Ninja’ed by Hamlet!
Fair enough, that wasn’t the worst of the calls. Even on that roughing play there was some super obvious holding. The intentional grounding that should’ve been a penalty the other way, if anything, and the weird do-over the Chiefs got on third down earlier in the game.
I wasn’t rooting for anyone in this game so it’s not a personal grudge, it just seemed like a lot of unusually sketchy shit going down.
How so?
Agreed, but KC did end up punting anyway. It really had no bearing on the outcome, except maybe it ran a few more seconds off the clock.
So what’s the theory? That the NFL is rigging the games to get that sweet KCMO ratings bump?
Well, more than a few seconds. It went do-over, sack that got called back with a holding penalty on Cincy, and KC got a new set of downs, then not much for KC and a punt. It looks like an extra minute was run off the clock.
Yeah, you’re right. I forgot about the holding call and the new set of downs. I just looked, and it was right at a minute. The 3rd down do-over was snapped at 10:24 on the clock when the holding was called. KC ended up punting with 9:26 on the clock.
Brutal sequence for Cincy at the end: Sack, then out punt the coverage, then the roughing penalty. Tired football from all the emotion. On to the SB. Philadelphia, the city, will get destroyed either win or loss.
Skyy Moore, the punt returner, lost that job early in the season because he kept fumbling. But he was pressed back into the job today because everybody else was hurt. That punt return of 29 yards was the longest of the season for the Chiefs.
Yeah, I was looking forward to seeing an OT and the playoff overtime rules that (unless I misread them), meant that a touchdown by the initial possessing team would not end the game, but that the other team would have a chance to respond. But as soon as I saw that shove on the sidelines, I yelled out “oh, shit, that’s gonna be a flag, that might be the game” before the flag even came out. What a weird, weird misjudgment.
Except it backed up the Bengals more than it would have, and that was significant. If they were able to start with more room, they might have had a better chance to score and the game would have gone differently. I think there’s going to be some controversy over this. I’ve never seen a play done fully from start to finish and then called null and void. I don’t think that is allowed and it’s a massive blunder that will have consequences.
Agreed. Mahomes was completely out of bounds already, it was a cheap shot grudge shove that slammed him violently to the ground. On replay it was really bad and I had zero problems with calling it. It was a very good call.
If I’m looking at the play-by-play correctly, KC would have punted from their own 39. Instead they punted from their 40, and Cincy got the ball on the 18. They gained 18 yards and then Burrow threw the deep pass that was intercepted. I don’t think that the difference in yardage was that significant.
Now, was it a BS call? Of course it was.
That guy had serious diarrhea of the mouth & that’s to say nothing of his drawing all over the screen with his white crayon teleprompter pen. NFL broadcasts got significantly better when he stepped away. It wasn’t too bad when I could at least watch the TV on mute & listen to audio via the radio broadcaster, except for when the replays didn’t line up to what they were talking about.
Oh, &… E - A - G - L - E - S Eagles!!!
Okay, maybe I was remembering that differently then. I suppose it wasn’t as much of a difference,
But yeah, it was one of the worst decisions I remember seeing officials make. I just kept saying, “You can’t do that.”
Wasn’t online while watching he games today, so I’m late to the discussion. All in all, a completely disappointing day. Just an atrocious string of luck for the Niners and they added plenty of their own missteps to the pile. Still, had they correctly challenged that non-catch on first down, had they gotten off the field instead of taking penalties, they’d have been ahead at the half and would have probably been within one score at the end. I know Eagles fans are riding high and the final result makes it look like a dominating performance, but I really thought the Eagles looked like a pretty flawed team. Also, Shanahan’s blocking schemes were an atrocity…adjust dude.
In the other game it definitely felt like a lot of home cooking for the Chefs. Super lopsided officiating and they were still in that game right until the end. The bad officiating and the MASH unit that the sidelines turned into really sapped a lot of drama from the game. And of course, the story of the game will be that stupid late hit. I’m probably on an island here, but I don’t think the refs should have made that call. I think the whole “hit out of bounds” thing has gone to absurd levels. We have players going full out trying to keep a guy in bounds to keep the clock going or to keep him from stealing a yard at the sticks by extending an arm. We also have offensive players faking going out of bounds and using it as weapon. This hit was barely late…and both players were running in the same direction, it was a trivial shove that Mahomes sold, it looked bad because of the speed and momentum. I know it’s probably impossible to legislate this kind of thing, which is why we seem to flag a lot of technically “late” hits that completely lack any violence. Would be great if there was something more similar to the roughing/running into the kicker for this.
Well, we see it all the time when icing the kicker.