{"id":21833,"date":"2025-01-25T00:33:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T00:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=21833"},"modified":"2025-01-25T00:33:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T00:33:31","slug":"photo-eye-popping-graphic-should-end-the-debate-on-whether-or-not-the-referees-are-rigging-games-for-the-kansas-city-chiefs-in-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=21833","title":{"rendered":"PHOTO: Eye-Popping Graphic Should End The Debate On Whether Or Not The Referees Are \u201cRigging\u201d Games For The Kansas City Chiefs In The Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many\u00a0NFL\u00a0fans speculated that Tom Brady and his teammates received a favorable whistle during the height of the Patriots\u2019 dynasty, and now that they are gone, that favorable whistle has seemingly been given to the\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n

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It has become a pastime for NFL fans to complain that the Chiefs get all the calls.<\/p>\n

The same could be said for this year\u2019s playoffs as well.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Against the\u00a0Houston Texans<\/a>, 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\u2019 Will Anderson Jr., and the other was an unnecessary roughness penalty on two Texans defenders.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Since the 2021 postseason:<\/p>\n

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The Chiefs have 36 team penalties, while their opponents have 66 penalties.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs have 319 penalty yards, while their opponents have 541 penalties.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs opponents have registered more penalties in a game ten times while the Chiefs have done it zero times.<\/p>\n

The Kansas City Chiefs have had more penalty yards than their opponent just one time in 10 games.<\/p>\n