Raiders at Chiefs - Week 13 - Record: 11-1 - Monday Take

One more take, here on a Monday. Please check out my Sunday Take, it has much more on the current state of our Kansas City Chiefs.

But yeah, I just really wanted to add a couple of quick things, all of it related to the penalties situation with the Chiefs and NFL football as a whole.

First of all I caught this in one of my social media feeds:

So there you go. A reasonable explanation from the NFL front office that the officials did not miss that last call. Again, it isn't just that it rescued the Chiefs, but it is an instance when your thoroughly messing up shouldn't bail you out. 

And then this brief note here real quick after watching some of this NFL football not-the-Chiefs and seeing some of the social media posts put up about the day's action.

I am even more certain of the value of the things I shared in my Panthers game post, and that is here for you to link to it. For review:

1. Get more officiating from "New York." Meaning get officials with monitors to make calls from the 360-degree vision we all have watching on TV, helping out the refs on the field whose vision is just so limited. 

2. Insist on hands off eligible receivers (and defenders for that matter) from the time the play starts. Maybe it's okay within that five-yards, but I'm even thinking even starting the rule from scrimmage: No jostling, slapping, pushing, bumping, or any touching at all. None. Yes, that means no more "You can manhandle them up to five yards out." See if the receiver can run good routes and the QB can connect. See if the D-backs can make good plays on the ball. And any defensive breakaway violations puts the ball at the opponent's one, 1st-&-goal.

3. Any player, offense or defense, who is flagged for this twice is ejected from the game. Well, okay, maybe give them three times, but have some limit. 

Again, much help from the booth with officials looking at monitors makes this viable.

The main point: Let the players make plays. Stop, please stop with the incessantly thrown flags or having us behold silly plays that deserve flags but don't get them because the on-field refs just can't see them well enough. Send that message loud and clear so the players know they've got to make plays and not commit penalties.

Let's enjoy a mostly penalty-free game again.

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