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You can simultaneously have atrocious officiating AND not blame it for McDermott pissing away yet another historic Josh Allen performance in a close game. I wish I could dig through the comment history of all the Bills haters in here because I’m sure the hypocrisy is strong with them.

I’d also say that any smart player is going to gamble on taking a penalty in some situations, so I’m certain Slay knew he could either take a risk on DPI or be almost certain Diggs catches that pass for a long first down. It was a smart play on his part.

How nice of him.

I got stuck with browns/broncos and raider chiefs. How controversial was the reffing in this game? Or was it your usual “team with lots of wins always gets ref help”?

Refs miss calls all the time.. nobody perfect. But holding an grabbing goes on every play. If they would’ve called it I wouldn’t be mad at all!

Full tweet. Basically what we all know, there could be a flag on every play.

I mean, of course he says that after the fact and when it isn’t relevant anymore.

Breaking: Darius Slay fined $10,000 for tweet about NFL officiating.

I feel like the officiating in this game is blown out of proportion. The horse collar non-call was atrocious, no excuse to miss that one obviously. But for the Bills, this pass interference seems to be the only notable miss otherwise, and the play wound up being inconsequential as the Bills converted the first the very next play, farther up than the spot of the foul.

I don’t see this game as anywhere near the dolphins game, where it was just blatantly one sided.

I'm just happy that some people are finally admitting that it wasn't a horse collar tackle. Maybe a Bills fan will eventually do the same.

This is the same Slay and Bradberry that admitted that WR and CB tug and pull all game between each other , ooh btw the miss TD between Allen & Gabe Davis , Davis literally pushed Slay to get separation.

These threads literally never disappoint

DPI is kind of like a strike zone in MLB… as long as the referees make it clear how they are going to call it and call it the same way for both teams.

Unfortunately, MLB doesn’t do this well ever and lately NFL referees are struggling with this as well.

In the words of BG: "It don't matter"

Bills fans are giving 49ers a run for their money. Three crucial calls went against the Eagles at the end of the game, two false starts and the debatable RTP. There was a no call on an illegal man downfield on the go-ahead TD. You lost this game because Tyler Bass ain't Jake Elliott, Jalen Carter is incredible, and the Eagles skill position talent won out. And McDermott being a coward, ofc.

The problem isn’t that the NFL is fixed.

It’s that the rules are so subjectively and imperfectly applied that there’s no way to prove it’s not fixed.

The NFL should add an instantaneous sky judge, make the officials full time, and add more officials to the field so that more stuff gets seen in real time. The costs are minimal compared to players’ salaries.

Oh, and while they are at it:

1. Make intentional grounding a real penalty by penalizing 5 yards plus the spot of the foul and loss of down. As is, there’s no real penalty: it gets called maybe 30% of the time, and when called is no worse than a sack;

2. Fix RTP to get rid of the ridiculous “body weight” and ticky-tacky calls. Let the defense play defense.

3. Revise the pass interference rules to get rid of gimme calls on under thrown balls where the receiver initiates contact with the DB and tried to go through the DB to get the ball. Pass interference should require the DB to be the primary initiator of contact.

4. Don’t make defensive holding an automatic first down. Ticky tacky calls on 3rd and forever shouldn’t be an automatic first.