Chiefs fans, if they get rid of the outdated and flawed process for spotting the ball, they're not going to take away your AFC Championship. It's OK to want what's good for the future of the game. - ThreadSky

profootballtalk.bsky.social • 27 days ago

Chiefs fans, if they get rid of the outdated and flawed process for spotting the ball, they're not going to take away your AFC Championship. It's OK to want what's good for the future of the game.

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It's time for the NFL to ditch the imperfect process of spotting the ball in a scrum and fully embrace technology to determine whether the ball got to where it needed to go.
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hoosiergreg.bsky.social•27 days ago

Chiefs today-

haybud.bsky.social•27 days ago

I love this because it means that they were reading the comments from the previous post and realized how insufferable Chiefs fans have been this season. Even when we’ve already been talking about better technology for ball placement for decades, Chiefs fans will take it as a personal affront to them

go-chiefs.bsky.social•27 days ago

Or maybe they could actually clearly get the 1st down.

🤷‍♂️

Always disrespect the chiefs, it just fuels Pat and da boys.

BTW, I'm all for it - have been for years, just comical all the rule changes come after bills lose to the chiefs in the playoffs.

spallo82.bsky.social•27 days ago

As a Chiefs fan, I have said this for years. There is zero reason they haven’t fixed this.

driver9.bsky.social•27 days ago

Absolutely. There are numerous incorrect ball placements in every game, often in critical situations.

And Josh Allen made that first down.

iowabear.bsky.social•27 days ago

Maybe Josh Allen could get better at running a QB sneak at the same time?

spazman1836.bsky.social•27 days ago

Or maybe Joe Brady could come up with a different goddamn play to run on short yardage than a tush push that isn’t working.

Either way, gotta find a way to convert

iowabear.bsky.social•27 days ago

Yes like handing the ball to the RB who was averaging (checks notes) 6.5 yards per carry. Perhaps.

spazman1836.bsky.social•27 days ago

Or using your QBs mobility outta the pocket to your advantage.

Frankly, just do anything besides what they did on what felt like 10 short yardage situations in a row

kingston-me.bsky.social•27 days ago

As a chiefs, and football fan, I've wanted this for years.
It won't fix anything. People will just be like "the chip reads differently for the Chiefs, they've hacked it". Or whatever other team is winning football games in 20 years.

bleentastic.bsky.social•27 days ago

bills lose in the playoffs
instantly we need to change something

OT all over again

haybud.bsky.social•27 days ago

It’s just funny, because it seems like you guys don’t realize that people were complaining about the OT rules for years and years before they made the changes. Same with this ball placement tech. It’s not always about the Chiefs.

Was the tuck rule somehow also a personal attack against the Chiefs?

bleentastic.bsky.social•27 days ago

yes thats the point, people complain about it for years but it never sticks until it happens to the Bills (or the cowboys b/c jerry has some influence)

haybud.bsky.social•27 days ago

I’ll give you a perfect example. The NFL implemented pass interference review the season after the Rams-Saints debacle. Neither of these teams were superpower teams that had won multiple championships in a row. Neither team was the Bills.

But there was a really bad call in those playoffs.

haybud.bsky.social•27 days ago

So you do know, they changed the overtime rules already before the Bills-Chiefs overtime game, right?

They made changes to the playoff overtime rules in 2010 and 2017. Both seasons previously, the Bills didn’t even make the playoffs.

This is just what happens when bad calls are made in games.

benjaminrose.bsky.social•27 days ago

You’re pathetic.

chilleemack.bsky.social•27 days ago

#cheatingchiefs #payingtherefs

mepu06.bsky.social•27 days ago

Technology will be an improvement but not solve the issue completely. Even if the chip says the ball crossed the line of gain, when this happens in a scrum the refs will still have to determine whether the runner's knee, elbow etc. was down before the line of gain was crossed.

mildtakes.bsky.social•27 days ago

Yes- but I think it will lead to an increased accuracy in close call situations. More data points used to come to a conclusion does not often lead to a less informed or less accurate conclusion

bettercallfrank.bsky.social•27 days ago

Mike, a question out of curiosity. Can you find out if the first down call was made by the refs themselves or in consultation with NY? I saw it was reviewed by the ref in the box, but do they talk to NY at the same time? There’s no transparency so it would be nice to know how that works in big games

bettercallfrank.bsky.social•27 days ago

No tinfoil hat required. The game is not rigged. The Chiefs are a great football team. But in a game of razor thin margins and close calls, they seem to get every one to go their way.

acphila.bsky.social•27 days ago

Take your tinfoil hat off

takemetotacos.bsky.social•27 days ago

Less reliance on replay the better!

oshananigans.bsky.social•27 days ago

Based on the history of this matchup, the nfl will probably make this change now. The changed OT for the bills.

isusus.bsky.social•27 days ago

People should rejoice. The chiefs are progressing the game and making it better.

haybud.bsky.social•27 days ago

I mean, everyone’s been wanting this for a while. And this post is mainly talking about Chiefs fans taking it as a personal attack.
You guys can take credit for it, that’s fine. But the ones that are thinking this is some scheme to hurt the Chiefs game that they’ve already won, is really weird.

isusus.bsky.social•27 days ago

It’s s weird for sure. But I’m assuming it’s because of the discourse from this past week. Lots of people have been on the defensive, plus this discussion was mixed with others still saying rigged. I’m all for using technology to aid the officials.

oshananigans.bsky.social•27 days ago

Not taking it as a scheme to hurt the chiefs. Just noting that things have gotten done in the past when the bills complain about rules. Like with OT rules. I’m all for moving the game forward and taking guess work out of it.

clinttt.bsky.social•27 days ago

If another rule change happens at the knee of Josh Allen…

coolsportsguy69.bsky.social•27 days ago

There is no rule change proposed! Ffs can anyone even read these days.

clinttt.bsky.social•26 days ago

Oh I know. OT rules were changed for Josh Allen though.

corizz.bsky.social•27 days ago

I dont think anyone is against them fixing what is broken. Hard to tell if he was actually over or not, so thats the result they get, but i dont think fans are going to be against changing something if you can improve it.

619bradical.bsky.social•26 days ago

Kansas City people have wanted to be noticed and liked all their lives to no avail. Not even their NFL team in national headlines could make that happen. It's kinda hilarious.

repete1970.bsky.social•27 days ago

How often do these judgment calls on spotting involving Mahomes/the Chiefs go against Mahomes/The Chiefs relative to league average? Same with personal fouls. Sometimes when everyone thinks something that could be dismissed as "conspiratorial", it's because it's actually true.

lydt.bsky.social•27 days ago

Did Josh Allen have the ball with over 3 minutes and 3 timeouts? And whiney chiefs haters are talking about them not getting an extra 3" on a spot on the chiefs side of the field mid way through the 4th. Be better.

chuckwolter.bsky.social•27 days ago

Disagree, they're still all cheating bastards

khaldraco.bsky.social•27 days ago

Makes sense. The Chiefs continuing to win is the only way the League will make changes. If it went against the Chiefs, zero shot anything changes.

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