Patrick Mahomes doesn’t think the Chiefs are getting positive calls

Many say that officials help bosses. Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes is not one of the many.

“I don’t feel this way“At the end of the day, the referees are doing their best to call the game as fair and proper as possible,” Mahomes told reporters on Wednesday, via Adam Teicher of ESPN.com. All you can do is go out and play the game 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 know because every game is different and that’s what makes the NFL so special. I feel like I just kept playing the game, just trying to win, and whatever happens just kind of happens.”

With all due respect to those who routinely cover their skulls with aluminum, the NFL is neither scripted nor rigged. It would be impossible to withdraw it and keep it secret.

However, unconscious biases likely influence officials’ behavior. During the 2022 season, Troy Vincent became the NFL’s Executive Vice President of Football Operations Stand up for protection of quarterbacks by pointing out that the NFL becomes a less popular product on television if its best quarterbacks cannot play due to injury. While the 2023 season, which has seen a rash of quarterback injuries, has exposed that, the blurring of the line between football business and football integrity will likely plant a seed in the minds of officials who realize it’s good for business if a team like the Chiefs wins. With football matches.

Decisions to throw or not to call a penalty happen in an instant. There are many factors that influence the wording of the message the brain sends, or does not send, to the hand ready to remove and throw the yellow flag.

When officials hear that the executive ultimately responsible for football defends the application of sanctions on the basis of commercial considerations, commercial considerations necessarily creep into the soup that ultimately drives the analysis of when and where to raise the flag.

The question now is whether the backlash against arbitrators – coupled with a growing sense of president fatigue – will nudge the needle in the other direction. If this happens, take advantage of the bills.