NFL GDT: 2024 AFC Championship Game: (1) Kansas City Chiefs vs (2) Buffalo Bills

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Bills in a nail biter. If there was any time for the Bills to finally overcome the demons, this would be the one

As pointed out the Bills coaching staff let Allen run wild when they played KC earlier in the year.

KC still didn't look too hot against the Texans and Houston might have been able to do damage if Stroud had more than one guy to throw to.

Regular season meeting don't matter in this sport, context does. Ravens destroyed Buffalo in the regular season and lost in the playoffs and it's at KC this time.

Hopefully the Bills don't fart too loudly near Mahomes, they'll get a flag for spooking him

Allen is an equally egregious diver lmao

 

[JetsWillFly4Ever]

Allen and Mahomes are the two biggest embellishers in the league so expect some QB shenanigans.

Feels like it's the Bills times but Mahomes rips out teams hearts year after year so hard to bet against him, especially at Arrowhead.

 

[Skidooboy]

heres the thing...every bit of evidence I can find is about how many penalties the CHiefs take and how they couldn't possibly be benefiting....

what nobody has looked at is how many penalties DON'T GET CALLED on the chiefs...especially late in close games.

Holding, blocking from behind.... over and over again....


then you see this

 

[Dirty Dog]

It’s not just the amount of penalties, it’s the number of ticky tacky penalties that have extended chiefs drives after failing on third down….or stopping an opponent after they other team converts a first down. We’ve seen it way too often go in their favor.

Those types of penalties impact the score. And those penalties go the chiefs way frequently

 

[Chris5225]

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[Marc the Habs Fan]

Picking the Chiefs.

Until I see them lose to the Bills in the playoffs, I just can't believe it will happen.

 

[Ace]

I think the biggest difference tomorrow in this game, aside from the INARGUABLE STATISTICAL ADVANTAGE CONSISTENTLY PROVIDED BY OFFICIALS TO ONE SIDE, is that winning the game would be maybe the biggest win in franchise history for one side…and commonplace for the other. Obviously big no matter how many times you do it…but three in a row vs. first time in three decades, against the two time defending champions who have eliminated you three out of four years, on the road. Buffalo has obviously won this game four times in a row before (as well as two pre-Super Bowl AFL championships) …but the opponent and the history, to me, would make a win bigger than any of them. At least in the Super Bowl era if you want to count those AFL rings as something more since there was no next, bigger game.

 

[Sombastate]

I think tomorrow has to be the most watched game ever when it comes to officiating. Not sure the chiefs will consistently get drive extending calls on soft plays.

I don't doubt that the Chiefs don't always win the penalty battle, but they seem to win it when it matters. Not sure that will happen tomorrow

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

allen is a worse diver than mahomes lol

this level of butthurt is truly insane. never seen anything like this. i hope when the chiefs win the super bowl again all these f***ing losers who cry and cry and cry just give up and stop watching football.

 

[hockey20000]

todays the day josh allen fulfills his destiny and ends the chiefs dynasty

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I think the Bills finally get over the hump known as KC. Bills by 10

 

[SwordsgoneWild]

With all of this attention on the refs/chiefs I'm going to say that we win on a controversial call and it will be hilarious. .

 

[Troy McClure]

heres the thing...every bit of evidence I can find is about how many penalties the CHiefs take and how they couldn't possibly be benefiting....

what nobody has looked at is how many penalties DON'T GET CALLED on the chiefs...especially late in close games.

Holding, blocking from behind.... over and over again....


then you see this

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Home teams get more calls. It’s just what it is, and the Chiefs play mostly home games in the playoffs.

 

[Skidooboy]

Home teams get more calls. It’s just what it is, and the Chiefs play mostly home games in the playoffs.

there’s a difference between a slight anomaly in equity of calls and the overwhelming majority of calls 10 games in a row.
which is what the chiefs penalty difference is.

10 of the last ten playoff games? the chiefs have DOUBLE. the penalty yards gained than their opponents.

 

[BB88]

Home teams get more calls. It’s just what it is, and the Chiefs play mostly home games in the playoffs.

When there’s zero games where you have more penalties than the other team it gets a bit iffy

Not one, one game

 

[Troy McClure]

When there’s zero games where you have more penalties than the other team it gets a bit iffy

Not one, one game

It's tough. When a team takes a lot of penalties, we always say it's because of bad coaching. When a team doesn't take a lot of penalties, should Andy Reid get credit for awesome coaching ... or is it because of a league conspiracy.

 

[hatterson]

*sigh* I’m ready to have my heart ripped to shred tonight.

 

[BMOK33]

Buffalo wins easily. 33-21. Won't even need to sweat the last 5-7 mins

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

It's tough. When a team takes a lot of penalties, we always say it's because of bad coaching. When a team doesn't take a lot of penalties, should Andy Reid get credit for awesome coaching ... or is it because of a league conspiracy.

An unbiased observer who watched all KC games would know. Very likely the league favors KC.

 

[hatterson]

Home teams get more calls. It’s just what it is, and the Chiefs play mostly home games in the playoffs.

Home teams get more calls.
Favorites get more calls.
Big name/headline teams get more calls.

Chiefs are all three of those in almost every playoff game they play.

It’s not a conspiracy in terms of the refs trying to help them, it’s just human nature and the NFL doesn’t have any real of neutral “backup” to human nature to offset that.

 

[Terry Yake]

can buffalo please win? really don't want another boring KC-philly SB

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Home teams get more calls.
Favorites get more calls.
Big name/headline teams get more calls.

Chiefs are all three of those in almost every playoff game they play.

It’s not a conspiracy in terms of the refs trying to help them, it’s just human nature and the NFL doesn’t have any real of neutral “backup” to human nature to offset that.

All of those indicate favoritism

 

[Bounces R Way]

LETS GO BUFFALO

 

[keonsbitterness]

Drop the puck!

 

[hatterson]

All of those indicate favoritism

They all indicate subconscious favoritism.

It’s not refs consciously saying “we want to favor this team” it’s just an unconscious bias in certain ways that you can’t really identify without proper stats.