Kansas City chiefs are easy to love for many different reasons, but when the Officer NFL gets involved, it ruins things for many people. This adds legitimacy to the conspiracy theory that the chiefs have allies carrying stripes in each game.
And this was certainly the case during the match of the Sunday division eliminations against Houston’s Texans.
Kansas City, Missouri – January 18: referee Clay Martin # 19 looks in the first half of the AFC qualifiers match between Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs at Geha Field at Stadium Arrowhead on January 18, 2025 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo of Aaron M. Sprecher / Getty Images)
The chefs are 7-0 with Clay Martin Crew
The chiefs won the match, 23-14, and that’s about what most people were waiting for. The chiefs, after all, were at home where they have a 11-2 sheet in the playoffs during the Patrick Mahomes era. The chefs were rested, they beat the Texans earlier this season and Mahomas was undefeated in six games from the previous division round.
Thus, the Chiefs Trek until their goal of the Super Bowl on three tours continue.
But some people leave this result with bad taste in their mouths because, well, the chiefs obtain the help of the officiating NFL.
“There are certainly things that I would question,” admitted the quarter of the Texans CJ Stroud.
People point to the fact that the chefs are now 7-0 in the matches in which referee Clay Martin and his crew are on the call.
And, no, it is not the chiefs who do that. But it is certainly to their advantage. And people who are enraged against the champions of the Super Bowl or those who have no interest in rooting and do not like it.
Buck and Aikman voice complaints
Even the advertisers of the ESPN game, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, commented the questionable calls that the chefs received in this game.
The calls that brought people, including those who play or training for the Texans, were upset were a few roughness penalties involving Mahomas.
“We knew how to enter this match, guy, it was us against everyone,” said Texans coach Demeco Ryans. “When I say everyone, it’s everyone. Everything, regardless of opponents, doubt, everyone we had to go today.
“Knowing this, we cannot make the mistakes we have made. All the self-inflicted errors that occur. The special teams do not convert our kicks. Not being where we are supposed to be on the cover. Offensively not protecting our quarter-arre and keeping it clean.
In the first trimester, the chiefs apparently saw a journey ending on a third incompletion of Mahomas. But the Texans’ secondary, Will Anderson, was reported for shaking the smuggler.
The penalty of 15 yards was at the best questionable and clearly incorrect at the worst.
But he extended a KC journey which finally led to a Harrison Bustker basket.
Useless roughness on the TD player
In the third quarter, Mahomes set off on a race and this time, two Houston platers went down on him and collapsed in the helmet.
But the officials decided that the two defenders had contacted Mahomes with their helmets.
The Texans were called to an unnecessary roughness penalty of 15 yards. And finally, the chiefs converted the aid into a touchdown.
These pieces combined with the fact that the Texans were called twice as many penalties, representing almost three times more than meters, people were screaming.
Social media react against the NFL Commission
We are talking about journalists, experts, athletes and respected fans. And to be fair, the Texans did not help each other in this game.
They missed a long goal in the field.
They had a small blocked basket.
They missed an additional point.
They granted eight bags with three of those who come out of pass passes by George Karlaftis.
The Texans are therefore injured while the chiefs have also made a good number of pieces. But the taste that the game leaves is that the teeming defense of the chiefs and the officer combined to advance Kansas City to their seventh consecutive AFC championship match.
It’s a shame.
The chefs deserve better. The Texans certainly deserved better.
And the complicity of the NFL must be better when the work matches played by none other than the defending champions of the Super Bowl.
