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Stop Saying The NFL is Rigged For The Chiefs | Eric Messersmith & Brian Johnson · Kenny Wallace Media

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  The conference championship games, we had one pretty bad
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  game, was a blowout, and then we had one pretty epic game between
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  the Chiefs and the Bills. I think the big story that came
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  out of it for me was all of the people who still really think,
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  or at least say they think that it's fixed in favor of the
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  Chiefs. And Adam Schefter of all people
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  kind of poured. Did you see this kind of poured
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  fuel on the fire with a tweet on Sunday morning before the games
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  where he talked about the NF LS considering reviewing, allowing
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  for review in the future, some of these late hits on
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  quarterbacks that the Chiefs have benefited from.
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  And he talked about how many of those have gone in the Chiefs
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  favor. And it just, it, I, I know I
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  don't think he necessarily meant it like this, but I, I just find
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  it so laughable that there are people who actually believe that
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  this, what, $15 billion industry with now with legalized
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  gambling, that the NFL would somehow risk all of that not to,
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  not to mention the lawsuits they would face in order to fix the
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  sport to let the Chiefs win. Like, I can't believe that
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  people really think this is happening, but they do.
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  This is the explanation. So my son Sebastian came home
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  and I was like, how was school? And he was like, dad, All my
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  friends say that the Chiefs cheated and that it's scripted
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  and the NFL wants them to win. And I said, your friends are
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  morons. And I gave him the exact same
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  explanation that you just did, which is that the idea that you
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  would risk a $15 billion a year industry because you like
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  Patrick Mahomes is preposterous. Like it's just so far gone.
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  But it just it, it feeds into because here's the thing.
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  And this is what happens is like the information goes out.
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  And when I say information, I mean like a tweet goes out that
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  the that the NFL is ringing in for the Chiefs and some people
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  believe it, but I also believe there's a large swath of people
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  who are like, well, this is hilarious and ridiculous.
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  And I'm just going to keep doing it to watch the craziness ensue.
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  And then it spirals into a thing like that's what happens.
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  I. Think you're right?
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  And if you watch the game, there were, and that this most recent
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  game, which by the way, credit to the Bills, the Bills played a
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  great game, Josh Allen played a great game.
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  It's just the Chiefs are a little bit better.
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  And that's what happens to so many teams against them.
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  They just, they've won what is it now?
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  17 consecutive 1 score games, which is absolutely absurd.
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  But there were really 2 plays in this game that that people
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  pointed to. One of them was in, I think in
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  the first half when the Chiefs threw up that pass to Savior
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  Worthy that initially looked like it was intercepted, but
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  then it looked like Worthy came down with it.
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  When that was a 5050 play, I actually thought they got it
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  right. I thought.
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  I thought initially the Bills defender had more of the ball,
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  but by the time they got to the ground, I thought it was 5050
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  and 5050 go. The tie goes to the.
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  Receiver You know what's funny about that is I thought it was
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  an incomplete pass. It could have.
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  Been because the ball hit the ground.
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  Incomplete pass, The ball hit the ground there, yeah.
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  So I think it was a very close call, but there was a penalty on
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  that play. So the Chiefs would have gotten
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  a first down regardless. There was a penalty against the
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  Bills. They declined.
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  Then on the 4th down right script the penalty.
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  Then on the fourth and one that Buffalo had, which was early in
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  the fourth quarter, where the line judge on each side, they
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  ran in with different spots and they ultimately on replay gave
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  confirm the spot was just short of the first down.
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  I think the fact that both of those guys standing on the
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  sideline saw it differently. One saw it pass the stick, one
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  saw it short shows you how freaking close that was.
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  And on replay, I couldn't tell exactly where the ball was.
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  So I don't have a huge that's the NFL man.
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  If you them's the brakes. My only comment.
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  Calls and plays happen all the time.
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  On this is we talked about the $15 billion a year industry, not
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  including the gambling. You have to understand that
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  these games like people's livelihoods are at stake.
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  Coaches will be fired, people are going to get cut.
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  They're going to move on. It it's, you know, I'm saying
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  like real life families, because the Bills didn't win this game
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  are probably going to have to move somewhere else.
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  And it like that's the nature of the business.
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  So we have all this money and these people's lives at stake.
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  And what we basically have is two older overweight men viewing
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  a play on opposite sidelines, walking it.
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  My favorite part is they're like a yard apart.
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  And then like, who decides where the ball is?
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  And do they like, get together and like, hey, Fred, I got this
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  one. Like I saw it.
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  He's like, Bob, I'm telling you, I got this one.
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  And then they stand there. We're deciding all of these
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  things because 2 old men are. They got their foot in different
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  spots. It is wild.
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  Like dude, that's also the cool part about it.
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  But when you think about it on that level, I just think that's
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  pretty neat. Look, there's always the human
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  element in these games, and the bottom line is both these teams
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  had chances to win the game in the fourth quarter and the
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  Chiefs made a few more plays and we every, we spend so much time
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  talking about Mahomes and Reed and Kelsey, and they're all
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  great. I don't think we need to.
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  They're all. But how about how about Steve
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  Spagnolo? What a game he called that call
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  on 4th down that the corner blitz beautifully disguised.
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  But to me, what they did so well and it it it was that fourth and
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  one play was just an example. They made all of those third and
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  one or two or fourth or one or two that Buffalo had throughout
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  the game. They made them really hard.
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  Buffalo still converted some of them, but in a lot of games and
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  they'll get a real test against the Eagles with the tush push.
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  When it gets to third and one or fourth and one and teams have a
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  good running quarterback like Jalen Erdger for Josh Allen,
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  it's essentially automatic that they're going to get it.
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  And the Chiefs did not make it automatic.
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  The Chiefs did a great job on those third and 4th and one or
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  two. Then I I was really impressed by
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  that because it's so hard to stop.
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  I mean, almost nobody has stopped Philadelphia on the
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  brotherly shove all year. So that'll be one kind of sneaky
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  thing to watch is will Kansas City be able to slow that down?
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  And Barkley also. But we could talk more about the
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  Super Bowl. The part of that game that I
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  really want to talk about is Josh Allen, because I think
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  after the game I saw the press conference and like Josh Allen
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  would be Patrick Mahomes if Patrick Mahomes did not exist.
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  So I think the comparison that a lot of people are making, or at
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  least that I have heard, has been to like Peyton Manning.
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  Like Mahomes is Peyton Manning and Josh Allen is, I'm sorry,
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  Josh Allen is Peyton Manning and Pat Mahomes is Tom Brady.
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  Right? But the guy that Josh Allen
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  reminds me of as a player, I think he plays a lot like Ben
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  Roethlisberger when he was younger, before he was an old
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  statue. But the guy that Allen had made
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  me think of that in his press conference was John Elway.
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  Because if you remember John Elway in the 80s, particularly
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  the late 80s with the Broncos, the Broncos had very good teams.
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  And John Elway carried those teams on his back.
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  And then they would get to the Super Bowl and they would lose
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  to Joe Montana or they would get to the Super Bowl and they would
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  lose. And Elway didn't really get his
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  success until he was like much, much older.
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  And I just kind of feel like that's the path that Josh Allen
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  is on. Like, no one disputes that Josh
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  Allen is a phenomenal player. I've also heard the comparison
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  to like, Dan Marino just in terms of like a great
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  quarterback. Like everyone knows this guy is
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  the man, but he just hasn't won a Super Bowl.
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  I after that game, I just thought the whole time Josh
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  Allen played a great game, that pass that he made on that blitz
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  that you were describing to Kincaid when he dropped it.
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  And look, people make mistakes like it happens.
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  It's not Kincaid's fault they lost.
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  It's a combination of things. But like, that play that Josh
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  Allen made was incredible. He's backpedaling 12 yards,
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  people are coming at him trying to murder him, and he still
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  finds an open receiver downfield.
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  It's insane how good Josh Allen is.
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  And it's not that his team is bad.
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  It's that Patrick Mahomes is alive.
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  That's the only thing standing between him and greatness.
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  I mean, look, Patrick Mahomes already, you could argue and I
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  he he might be, if he retired today, the second best
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  quarterback of all time. Here are his seven He's only
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  been a starter for seven years. 17 and three.
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  Results. Yeah. 17 and three in the
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  playoff. Well, now it's 18, right?
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  No, it's 17 or 18. I lost track.
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  Go ahead. Sorry, he is for seven years.
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  Here are the final results. AFC Championship loss, one Super
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  Bowl, lost the Super Bowl, AFC Championship loss one Super Bowl
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  1 Super Bowl and now in the Super Bowl.
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  That is absolutely unbelievable. And how about this?
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  Patrick Holmes is great, but Andy Reid should get a lot of
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  credit, too. Go ahead.
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  Absolutely, The AP tweeted this out.
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  Mahomes has trailed in the fourth quarter in nine of those
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  playoff games. Nine of them he's come back to
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  win 6, and in the three he lost at two of those he forced
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  overtime in the fourth quarter of those games.
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  Fourth quarter to OT, when he's down, he has a rating of 132
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  with five touchdowns, 1 touchdown run and he led scores
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  on 13 of 14 drives. That is insane.
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  It's not. He's essentially perfect when
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  his team is behind in the fourth quarter, in overtime, in a not
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  in a two or three-game sample. In a nine game sample spanning 7
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  years, that is insane. I know it's hard to explain,
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  like you did a great job of pointing out the stats and just
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  how insane they are. But I think the greatest credit
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  you can give Patrick Mahomes is that early on he had Tyreek
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  Hill. You know, he had some weapons.
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  The Chiefs were very dynamic. But like, right now, dude, he
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  has the corpse of DeAndre Hopkins and Juju Smith Schuster.
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  Right. And Kelsey, who's not quite, no.
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  Kelsey's fine and I actually I really like Kareem Hunt and they
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  have a good. Worthy's pretty good.
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  Yeah, worthy's fast, but. Young, but young and not not.
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  But what I'm saying is not we're not he doesn't have Jerry Rice
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  and Randy Moss or TO out there buddy, like he doesn't have
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  these people. So I'm just saying I'm not
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  slandering. DeAndre Hopkins is amazing.
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  Not anymore. Yeah, Juju Smith Schuster was
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  great when he was with the Steelers.
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  But like for them to accomplish what they've accomplished during
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  the salary cap area, I think two people get, well, there should
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  be 3 it. Number one is Patrick Mahomes
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  because he actually has to play the games, but #2 is certainly
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  Andy Reid. I mean, what a coaching job he
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  has done and #3 is Spagnola like Spags?
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  Has been. Tremendous.
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  Like it's not hyperbole to say if they win this is the greatest
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  run in the history. It's the greatest dynasty in the
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  history of NFL football. It would be three straight Super
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  Bowls. It would be 4 champions years in
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  six years, six years, six years plus 1/5 another one where they
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  appeared in the that's, that's amazing.
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  And I'm unprecedented. By the way, one last stat, I saw
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  a Schefter point that tweeted this out talking about how good
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  Josh Allen is and how sad it is in some ways.
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  He and Mahomes have faced each other nine times.
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  Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs have scored 245 points in those
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  nine games. Josh Allen and the Bills have
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  scored 240. So they've played nine times and
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  a total spread of five points. But of course, in the biggest
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  ones in the playoffs, Mahomes finds a way.