ok, on the ref thing and on laptop not tablet sitting on the couch....
To expand on my above post - when Schottenheimer was our coach I watch the after game presser and he said something like 'if it comes down to one or two calls in a game we were not playing well enough and missed calls are part of the game and we have to deal with it'. I've always respected that thought process.
It is easy to sit here as a chiefs fan at this point and time and say this, but i said the previous paragraph because the last 40 plus years i've been a chiefs fan - especially during the 90s when we were the most winning team but alway flopped at the end - that a call or two changes the game, maybe. It can, depending on the team and the teams leaders, coach or QB or...
Same **** went on during the brady years but guess what - they won even when they have calls go against them. Montana, Elway, Bradshaw etc all of them as players and leaders in sports or the real world win because they are leaders and players, as a team and deal with what they have in front of them.
Now to the specific calls in yesterdays game:
imo, the refs in the NFL have the hardest job as refs, quickly followed by the NBA. Baseball, soccer, hockey etc all relatively easy to judge. If you watch a complete coverage of 99% of any NFL play there will be 2-5 missed calls. There is sooooo much happening at once. So that covers uncalled fouls.
Incorrectly called - two thoughts on that. One is acting has been a part of football for YEARS. If it is your team it is ok, if not then the refs are being paid. If your team then it is just the game.
Back to my thoughts on how hard it is to be 100% correct, being on the field, real time, is really an untenable situation. Imaging having to watch 22 humans rushing around a few acre field to see if everything is perfect. Armchair refs are same as couch refs. Watch a replay 30 times yes you can be almost perfect. Be on field level and in real time? Hell no. If you are a vet, think of the 'fog of war' theorem.
The two calls in this game, at field level, were called correctly from the ref's perspective imo. Now, do we need a challenge flag for issued calls or some other appropriate change? Absolutely. Back in the day the current challenge flag system and reffing by replay was going to kill the game. It didn't. Time to put some new guardrails in place for missed / incorrectly called fouls.
Here are the two play in question. Look at ref's position and the action. Wrong call but totally understandable.
https://www.si.com/nfl/ref-explains...ies-benefitting-patrick-mahomes-chiefs-texans
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