Chiefs have another 2 calls go their way in yet another playoff victory

Another Kansas City Chiefs Playoff victory. Another game where officiating steals some of the limelight.

Patrick Mahomes Collected Kansas City to a 32-29 victory Over Josh Allen and the Bills in the AFC championship match on Sunday, which sent Chiefs back to the Super Bowl for the fifth time in six years with a chance to become the first team to Trepeat.

But much of the talk centered on two more calls that went Kansas City’s way.

In the first half, Xavier Worthy was credited with a catch as he fought the ball away from Bills Safety Cole Bishop for a 26-yard win to Buffalos 3.

“I can see it because you can’t quite say no, but that ball hits (Earth),” said analyst Tony Romo.

CBS-Regal analyst Gene Steratore also didn’t think it was a catch.

Bills challenged, but the game was maintained and Mahomes then ran in for a scoring and a 21-10 lead.

Buffalo gathered to take a 22-21 lead and faced a fourth and 1 at Kansas City’s 41 early in the fourth quarter.

Allen was stopped in a sneaky, though it looked like a referee marked the ball past the pay line before another put it briefly. Replay review approved the call because there was no clear evidence to overturn it. The league had a full crew of Replay experts employed in New York to make the decision.

“I felt he got it with about a third of football,” Steratore said in the broadcast. “It was just my view of the piece. Hard, hard play.”

Romo agreed with him.

But Chiefs took over and drove for a clear touchdown.

The NFL has experimented with new technology to measure Line to Gain, which can eventually replace the chain band, which uses two lysorange sticks and a chain to measure for the first Downs.

Determining ball placement through technology is another story. It requires digital components inside a football, and it is unknown how accurate it would be when corpses are stacked up.

Last week, Kansas City enjoyed well of two roughing the-pass-pass punishment during a 23-14 victory over Houston.

Hall of Fame Quarterback Troy Aikman, who called the game with Joe Buck at ESPN, was shaken after one of them.

“Oh, come so! I mean he’s a runner. I couldn’t disagree with that anymore. He’s barely hit.” said Aikman in the broadcast. “They have to grab it in the off -season.”

ESPN’s rule analyst Russell Yurk agreed and pointed out that two Texans collided with each other.

Buck said Mahomes slipped too late.

There is a view among non-Chiefs fans and some media that officials favors the twice defending Super Bowl masters.

A state examined by ESPNS PAUL HELEBESTES AND Published on x By colleague Adam Schafter, who has 11.4 million followers, pointed out that there have been six Roughing-The-Passer criminal on Mahomes during Kansas City’s eight games Playoff’s victory series-now at nine-and none called against Chiefs. Kansas City’s opponents were also called four unnecessary roughness penalties for one against Chiefs during that time.

That made the former All-Pro Right Tackling Mitchell Schwartz, who played for Kansas City’s 2019 championship team, to turn out.

“It is insane that someone in the league is pushing this and/or allowing the most visible person (Schafter) to spew this kind of (rubbish),” Schwartz wrote on X. “Maybe Chiefs are better trained and does not beat. QBS late Or in the head/neck.

When Tom Brady and New England Patriots won six Super Bowls, people complained that they were getting better treatment by the officials.

Now it is Mahomes and Chiefs who allegedly get the favor. The presence of Taylor Swift’s supportive girlfriend Travis Kelce only nourishes the conspiracy theorists.

Saquon Barkley, Jalen Hurts and Philadelphia Eagles could finish the cluster by defeating chiefs in the Super Bowl on February 9th.

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