CrimsonCrew wrote:Pattersonca65 wrote:CrimsonCrew wrote:
The Chiefs call their D the way the Niners call their O - though very arguably more effectively as Shanahan tends to pucker late in games. They'll do things early in the game just to see how the offense reacts to it, set it up, and then exploit it later. It would be so refreshing to see us do more of that....
Man, there is such a gratuitous hold by the NT on the double-team block around the 5:45 mark. Literally just hauls the OG around by his jersey to free up Bolton to make the tackle. Granted it's inside, but that has to be called.
Not that this is a topic I pay attention to, but there just seems to be a lot of criticism lately about how Chiefs games are officiated from fans and somr members of the media.
What struck me about Warner's recent comments about Saleh coming back was his experience with Saleh the last time. He spoke about Saleh's ability to make adjustmentd and how could things on the fly.
To my eyes, and I'm admittedly biased, the Chiefs are not officiated the way other teams are. They get lots of calls that go their way, especially crucial calls that involve Mahomes. At the same time, they probably hold worse than any other team in the league, but are almost never called there. Now, there's a caveat. Last year in the regular season, their OTs were penalized a lot for holding. But I don't believe they drew any holding penalties in the playoffs despite continuing to hold CONSTANTLY. I'm fairly certain they are coached to do so. If you are going to let a team mitigate their biggest weakness through blatant uncalled penalties, while simultaneously give them any call whatsoever that involves their QB - who flops and fake slides in fairly unprecedented fashion - then they're going to be hard to beat. Especially with that D.
I think of a couple plays that really seal it for me. In the first SB, Kittle broke that huge play toward the end of the first half. We get flagged for a push-off. Did he push off? Yeah, probably, but it was a close call. Then on that crucial 3rd and like 25, Bosa just gets dragged down by the OT. No call. This past SB - which I don't blame on officiating, because we really should have won it even with the officiating - we were called for holds twice in the run game. But again on a crucial third and long, Mahomes fled the pocket, and Hargrave was literally being held around the waist from behind by the OL giving Mahomes the edge, and there was no call.
You just can't have fair games if things that are that blatant go uncalled. The hold I cited above is less egregious - at least in terms of the no-call. It's very obviously a hold, but the hands were inside the body and it happened on the interior. That sort of thing goes uncalled a lot.
I hate the flopping. Russell Wilson did that in Seattle. He would appear to be starting a slide but then keeps going. One game one of the 49ers players was flagged for a late hit on Wilson which wasnt aggrecious based on Wilson's fakes
