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Referee Ron Torbert's crew assigned to work Chiefs-Bengals game
Oh great, almost as bad as Cheffers.
Ninth-year NFL referee Ron Torbert and his crew have been assigned as the officials for the AFC Championship Game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Cincinnati Bengals. Torbert hasn’t officiated a Chiefs game this season, but fans will remember him from 2021, and not in a good way. He was an unscheduled white-hat substitution for John Hussey against the Bengals during their Week 17 regular-season loss. During that game, Torbert’s crew called 10 penalties for 83 yards against Kansas City. It was the second-most penalties the Chiefs had called against them in a single game that season. If we’re only considering the 2022 NFL season as evidence, Torbert and his crew have been among the best in the league in terms of penalty volume. In 16 games officiated, their 172 penalties called are good for the fourth-fewest in the NFL. That said, once a penalty is called by Torbert’s crew, expect it to stand. Their 20 dismissed penalties are the second-fewest in the NFL this season. They’ve officiated fairly even on the home (89) and away (83) fronts so far this season. As far as how this crew officiates, they’re definitely not a “let them play” crew and they almost always side with the offense. Torbert’s 17 defensive pass interference penalties tie for the second-most in the league this season. For comparison’s sake, they’ve only called four offensive pass interference penalties all year. The Chiefs lead the NFL in defensive pass interference penalties this season (14) while the Bengals are right around the league average (6). Basically, expect Ja’Marr Chase to continue to get away with pushing off and Chiefs defenders to be penalized for any contact downfield. https://chiefswire.usatoday.com/2023...nnati-bengals/ |
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I will admit I was one of the people concerned the league was going to do their best to hand the Bills a trophy, but I'm more than happy to be wrong on that one. As I've said many times lately, I haven't seen any sort of issues with officiating this postseason, and I certainly hope that trend to continues. |
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Yeah, it's hard to believe people can't acknowledge shit like this. I mean, the numbers are right there. I remember watching the call against Tyrann in the end zone, and Brady going up to him and talking shit. You know damn well he was saying "You aren't winning this game Ty, it's not happening." You could see it in their body language after that. They literally weren't going to be allowed to play D in that game.
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I'm not of that ilk, Wisc. I do think some calls in some games are made to keep it interesting.
The TB-Chiefs SB is as close to a fix as I've ever seen. It didn't help that the Chiefs Oline was gone and nobody could catch a pass. That's what made it 31-9 instead of 31-23 |
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I don't care if it was unintentional, intentional, point spreads, the mob... to see it happen in the SB of all games with zero accountability that anything was amiss still grinds my gears. And apologies if I lump you into a more extreme opinion than you have on the subject... I try to separate the more extreme opinions, but over time these arguments all tend to get black and white where you either think the NFL is scripted down to the players knowing when to catch the ball or not and run by the illuminate, or you think refs are salt of the earth amazing and never make a bad call ever.
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It’s crazy. If the games were steered AT ALL, the game would be against Buffalo in Atlanta.
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I don't think games are steered, but this might not be best example. Buffalo came out and went down 14-0 right out of the gate. They were absolutely awful, and pretty much got blown off the field. Refs could try all they want to hand it to the Bills but I don't think they would've taken it. They were that terrible.
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What all this reads like is a preemptory excuse for anything other than a blowout Chiefs win. Also, any type of penalty on the Bengals first 2 drives could have kept the game close. Holding could be called on every play. If that’s the goal in all of this, then that’s what would have happened.
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Wasn't Carl Cheffers suppose to rig the Bills/Bengals game to a Bills victory so the NFL could usher in their neutral field championship games? What ever happened with that?
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Ohh hell here we go. THE NFL HATES US !!! THE FIX IS IN!!!!! MIGHT AS WELL NOT EVEN TAKE THE FIELD!!!!!!
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