Many NFL fans speculated that Tom Brady and his teammates received a favorable whistle during the height of the Patriots’ dynasty, and now that they are gone, that favorable whistle has seemingly been given to the Kansas City Chiefs.
It has become a pastime for NFL fans to complain that the Chiefs get all the calls.
The same could be said for this year’s playoffs as well.
Just one game in for the Chiefs, and they have already been blasted for two calls going their way that changed the outcome of a game.
Against the Houston Texans, Patrick Mahomes received two controversial calls that helped two drives continue and resulted in ten points. One was a roughing the passer penalty on Texans’ Will Anderson Jr., and the other was an unnecessary roughness penalty on two Texans defenders.
Now, we have damning evidence that the Kansas City Chiefs do indeed get a favorable whistle as a telling graphic shows how refs have called very little penalties on them compared to their opponents.
Since the 2021 postseason:
The Chiefs have 36 team penalties, while their opponents have 66 penalties.
The Chiefs have 319 penalty yards, while their opponents have 541 penalties.
The Chiefs opponents have registered more penalties in a game ten times while the Chiefs have done it zero times.
The Kansas City Chiefs have had more penalty yards than their opponent just one time in 10 games.
Patrick Mahomes Disagrees With Notion That The Kansas City Chiefs Get Favorable Calls
The Houston Texans feel like they were cheated out of a game because the Chiefs received favorable calls from the game officials.
Patrick Mahomes doesn’t agree.
“I don’t feel that way,” Mahomes said Wednesday.
“At the end of the day, the referees are doing their best to call the game as fair and as proper as they possibly can. And all you can do is go out there and play the game that you love as hard as you can and live with the results. … I think that’s what we preach here in Kansas City.
“You get new referees every year, you get new circumstances, and you never can really tell because every play’s different, and that’s what makes the NFL so special. I feel like I’ve just continued to play the game, and I just try to win, and whatever happens, kind of happens.”
The Texans were twice penalized for hits against Mahomes, which led to an extended drive that ended with points.
