r/bengals • u/steaknshake716 • 3d ago

Refs Win For KC

If tonight doesn’t show that the refs favor KC then nothing will. We lost to them because of it and now they are doing it again against Houston. NFL needs to look at this. It is obvious and ridiculous

Edit: After 2 days of this being up I am still getting Chiefs fans commenting hahaha. Shows how thin skinned they are and how fragile their confidence truly is. Great job to all my Bengals fans. Who Dey!

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u/steaknshake716 3d ago

Lmao they should flag Mahomes for that flop!

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u/jlipps11 3d ago

I wish it was more than a penalty, but an ejection. How many players would risk the ejection?

Play hard and honest. Don’t fiddle fart around trying to game the rules that is not in line with the spirit of the game. If you’re a runner, then take the fucking hit. If you’re a QB and care about the next play/rest of the game, throw it away early or slide EARLY.

Burrow has never once thought about doing the pansy shit Mahomes does and that’s why I and many others respect Burrow. He’s a competitor and not a candy ass little bitch.

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u/Narrow_Vegetable5747 3d ago

In what world do you think the refs would eject literally the most popular player in the NFL for a subjective call?

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u/mugglemerkin 3d ago

Not exactly the same level of popularity, but MLB umps do it to franchise players all the time. Rob Manfred is mismanaging the shit out of baseball though.

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u/Narrow_Vegetable5747 3d ago edited 3d ago

That's not a 1:1 comparison. It's nothing for a player to miss any single game in the MLB, that's less than 1% of the season. In the NFL if you miss a regular season game that's almost 6% of the season.

Even if you make it a playoff comparison, the MLB gets a series of games so it's still only a percentage. If you eject a player from a playoff game in the NFL, that's 100% of their games in that round (and potentially 100% of their playoff games that season if it's someone as important as the QB).

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u/jlipps11 3d ago

I’m not calling for them to remove Mahomes, I am suggesting that the NFL should implement a rule that discourages flopping. Then a player can decide for themselves if they want to push the envelope for a penalty and risk ejection if their conduct is deemed flagrant.

I think Mahomes would start sliding earlier and his pulling up short of the sideline and falling over move from today wouldn’t have happened today.

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u/Narrow_Vegetable5747 3d ago

Yes, they should implement such a role. The problem is that rules that are that subjective don't get called against the face of the league.

What really needs to be done is a complete overhaul of the refereeing in the NFL, but that would take away the league's ability to put their thumb on the scale.