{"id":24566,"date":"2025-02-09T00:38:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T00:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=24566"},"modified":"2025-02-09T00:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T00:38:34","slug":"troy-aikman-much-like-everyone-else-other-than-kansas-city-chiefs-fans-is-getting-fed-up-with-all-of-the-terrible-and-in-some-cases-shady-calls-being-made-by-nfl-officials-and-he-didnt-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=24566","title":{"rendered":"Troy Aikman, much like everyone else other than Kansas City Chiefs fans, is getting fed up with all of the terrible and, in some cases, shady calls being made by NFL officials. And he didn\u2019t hold much back in a new interview where he talked about the NFL becoming \u201cmore controversial\u201d thanks to the sketchy officiating. 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And he didn\u2019t hold much back in a new interview where he talked about the NFL becoming \u201cmore controversial\u201d thanks to the sketchy officiating.<\/p>\n<p>As he has done before,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brobible.com\/tag\/troy-aikman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Troy Aikman<\/a>\u00a0was pretty vocal on Sunday (as vocal as a \u201cunbiased\u201d broadcaster can be) after the NFL officials gave the\u00a0Chiefs\u00a0a first down on a\u00a0very soft roughing the passer call, followed by a phantom unnecessary roughness call on Patrick Mahomes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=douglazilla&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1880759806614704486&amp;lang=en&amp;maxWidth=560px&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fbrobible.com%2Fsports%2Farticle%2Ftroy-aikman-nfl-officiating%2F&amp;sessionId=35d1d144734e8c93d2ea8713466550c807a9bbe9&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-7=\"true\" data-tweet-id=\"1880759806614704486\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Aikman spoke to\u00a0<em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>\u00a0about the\u00a0NFL\u00a0officiating, and he would like to see a change made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know the officials have a tough job,\u201d Aikman said. \u201cI mean, the scrutiny that they\u2019re under. As we\u2019ve gotten more advanced with instant replay, those guys, it seems, have become more and more scrutinized. And the game has not become less controversial, the game has become more controversial. I just think that we are at a point that this has tipped a little bit because the league is partners with a number of these gambling services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo here you are promoting gambling. People are gambling more than they ever have before. And those types of calls, there\u2019s a lot at stake regardless, but especially when you\u2019re considering there\u2019s a lot of money that\u2019s changing hands with these calls as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think that we owe it to the fans that we get it right, and I think we\u2019re at a point in time where we can. We can get it more right. So that was really my position in just trying to lean on the NFL and say, \u2018Hey, we\u2019ve got to fix this. We\u2019ve got to address it in the offseason.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Aikman also addressed situations like\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs\u00a0quarterback\u00a0Patrick Mahomes baiting defenders and then flopping\u00a0to draw a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the quarterback has the ball and you\u2019re going to protect him and and give him protections, when he gives himself up he can\u2019t then weaponize that rule and and then dance around and wait till the last possible second,\u201d Aikman said. \u201cBecause we\u2019ve also seen it from quarterbacks who get on the sidelines and they\u2019ll tiptoe and a defender doesn\u2019t really know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also added that a quarterback \u201ccan\u2019t take advantage of that and either get down or you\u2019re a runner and you\u2019re going to get hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-holder\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget2\" title=\"Troy Aikman on Critiquing Refs &amp; Super Bowl LIX\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gFmTMyBG9bk?start=133&amp;feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:%2F%2Fbrobible.com\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-7=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images &nbsp; Troy Aikman, much like everyone else other than Kansas City Chiefs fans, is getting fed up with all of the terrible and, in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Troy Aikman, much like everyone else other than Kansas City Chiefs fans, is getting fed up with all of the terrible and, in some cases, shady calls being made by NFL officials. 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