There was no pool report of the controversial stop on the 4th in the tribal boats

Referee Clete Blakeman spoke to quarterback Patrick Mahomes and other players and coaches during the AFC Championship Game. Blakeman did not speak to reporters after the game. No one else from the NFL job spoke to the media either.

In the league, there was no officers’ huddle report after a 32-29 win by the Chiefs and Bills.

The referee (or someone from the NFL’s replay function) is automatically unavailable to reporters after each game. One or more reporters covering the game in person must submit the application.

In this case, any of the reporters covering the game personally activated the option to report a huddle to get an official explanation about the questionable and complicated fourth quarter spot replay process by the Bills that came up short.

There has to be a better way to ensure that the referee or someone else has to answer questions in the immediate aftermath of a game including a questionable call. Ideally, the referee will be available after each game, without request.

Unless the NFL is available to a referee after each game without a request, the challenge for reporters covering the game is to ensure that at least one of them will call for a pool report if a pool report is needed. It should be planned before every game.

“Who requests a pool report, if we need one?”

It’s that simple, and it simply didn’t happen last night.

As a result, the public was deprived of a new, real-time, never-before-seen explanation of what happened.

Meanwhile, a report to the huddle occurred after the leaders’ game – regarding repeated fouls of encroachment and the threat of officials awarding relegations for a “perceivedly unfair act”. It happened because someone thought to ask for it.

If only this guy was covering the AFC Championship instead.