Chiefs Get Most Favorable Calls in the NFL, Study Shows

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00:00The Kansas City Chiefs benefited from 45% more roughing the pass or penalty calls

00:08against the defense they're facing than any other team in the league.

00:12That's a lot.

00:1345% more.

00:16Meaning if you breathe on Patrick Mahomes, you're going to get a flag thrown on you.

00:20And I thought it was a great juxtaposition this past weekend

00:24when we saw Baker Mayfield get dropped hard and popped up flexing like,

00:30let's go!

00:31You want to hit me?

00:32I'm your huckleberry.

00:33He wasn't crying for the officials to throw a flag.

00:36He wasn't.

00:37He took the hit like a man, jumped up and said, I'm coming back for more.

00:42If you breathe on Patrick Mahomes, it's an immediate turnaround to the referees,

00:47hands up in the air, throw the flag.

00:50And according to the UTEP study, he's gotten that call 45% more

00:55than any other quarterback in the NFL.

00:59Let me give you one more stat that came out of it.

01:01Defensive holding against the Chiefs opponent.

01:05All right?

01:06Defensive holding, as you know, is a five-yard penalty.

01:09But what does it include?

01:11Automatic first down.

01:12Automatic first down, which what do we call that?

01:15Keeping a drive alive.

01:16Giving the best quarterback in football another three shots at a potential score, right?

01:23Well, the Kansas City Chiefs have gotten 32% more defensive holding calls

01:29that benefited them than any other team in football.

01:33And let's just stop it right there.

01:35Because I know when it's me saying it, it's a broken record for a lot of you.

01:40Oh, that's just Carton.

01:41He hates the Chiefs.

01:41He's jealous of the Chiefs.

01:43Whatever he can find to put the Chiefs down.

01:45But there's nothing empirical about it.

01:47And now we have the data.

01:49Now we have empirical data done by bored college kids.

01:53They're probably getting credits for the study.

01:55Who can now prove tangibly and statistically that from 2023 on,

02:02the Kansas City Chiefs have gotten the betterment of calls

02:05when compared to every other team in the NFL.

02:09Now, one might say, well, that's what good teams get.

02:14Great players always get the benefit of the calls, no matter what the sport is.

02:19The problem with that theory, or that thesis, is that they compared the numbers

02:24of this current run of Kansas City to the heyday of the New England Patriots,

02:30and it's not close.

02:31It is not close, and it completely favors Kansas City.

02:37There's a reason the Chiefs are on three consecutive nationally televised evening games.

02:43Three consecutive.

02:45Because they are, next to the Dallas Cowboys, the most popular team with the best quarterback

02:50in football.

02:51I get it.

02:52Popularity sells.

02:53But Chiefs fans can no longer say that it's just envy or jealousy or bitterness or hatred

03:02because the kids at UTEP started with a blank slate.

03:07They just wanted to see if there was any truth to it, so they did a legitimate study.

03:12And the numbers don't lie.

03:13It's the beauty of numbers.

03:15They don't lie.

03:15And the numbers will tell you that the officiating has been embarrassingly skewed in favor of

03:24the Kansas City Chiefs, both with calls against the opponent's defense from a holding standpoint

03:30and calls against the opponent's defense when they get anywhere near the vicinity of Patrick

03:35Mahomes.

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