Pass interference.
The screenshot you are seeing right here shows absolutely the most contact you will ever see on this play. The highlight reel's narrator, Pat Summerall by the way, even said the PI call was based on the official's feeling Marselis leaned on Moses a bit too much, sneered quite tongue-in-cheek. The Broncos went on to score a touchdown that made the game far too close. The Chiefs did end up winning 24-21, much with the help of two pick-sixes.
The point should not be hard to grasp. Excccept that it is apparent it is for most people who continue to schlurp up the idiotic narrative that is dumped into their craniums, namely that everything is on the up-and-up and the Chiefs have just as fair a chance as anyone out there.
(By the way, in posting the Jim Marsalis play I'm not in any way saying the Chiefs have always been hosed by the officiating, it is just an example of what it is like on a regular basis for the Chiefs today, for obvious reasons I've shared so many times before and continue to emphasize here...)
As I shared in my blog post on this nightmare loss, even though I did not watch a thing just a little while after the Jaguars second touchdown, I did later see that many people remarked that the Chiefs did a number of numbskull things especially towards the end of game. One of those was the pass interference by Chamarri Conner in the end zone, a play that if non-called as it should have been would have resulted in a Chiefs game-sealing interception by Bryan Cook.
I did watch the replay of the play after I saw just about anyone who remarked about it feel that it was the right call by the officials.
It wasn't. The ball simply banged off Conner's outstretched arm in front of the receiver. That's it. Because he didn't turn his head around means nothing. Did Conner move the receiver enough with his outstretched arm to impede his ability to catch the ball? Maybe, but let's be honest, it wasn't much.
In fact, it looked exactly like that play the Broncos defender made on that Eagles receiver at the end of their game earlier in the day, one that was actually more egregious than Conner's supposed infraction, and reminder it was the one that had everyone screaming should have been a PI call not-made costing the Eagles the game.
So, here's the progression, just so we're all clear:
1. The Eagles lose a game when a Broncos defender does a bit worse to an Eagles receiver keeping him from catching the ball, a non-call that keeps the Eagles from winning the game.
2. A couple hours later the officials in the Chiefs-Jaguars game get word from the NFLer world that the Eagles were robbed and everyone is in a hyperkinetic frenzy about it.
3. A couple hours after that the Chiefs defender does much less to a Jaguars receiver yet they still call the PI on us, costing the Chiefs the game.
4. No one says jack about it except that the Chiefs are just a stupid team doing stupid things and that's why they lost.
Now, yes, I did add a bit of conjecture there for Item No. 2 there, but you know?
It's still true.
However it happened, in whatever implicit or perhaps even explicit way, the Scorecasting factor kicked in. It did. It is simple.
The NFLers and their powerful marketing toadies do not want the Chiefs to win.
I want the Chiefs to win every single Super Bowl from now until the sun burns out eight trillion years from now. But I know the reality. That would be devastating to NFL ratings and $$$. The problem the NFLers have is the Chiefs are a stunningly good team. They are truly an unprecedentedly good team.
Back to the stupidity, especially with this particular thing screeched all the time: "The calls went the Chiefs way too!" For this particular affair they might add, "What about that non-call on Jaden Hicks leading to the Chiefs interception when the Jags were up 21-14?" Well, I looked at that replay too, and sorry, not a PI call. The officials did a good thing there, amazing, they actually refrained from calling a PI that wasn't there. Hicks was merely moving to defend his receiver and the Jags receiver ran into him. If anything it should have been a pick play on the Jags receiver! Maybe it was called, I don't know, I only saw the brief replay of the play itself. The Jags should just have their guys run cleaner routes so the quarterback doesn't throw that pass ending up in the hands of an opponent.
So yes, please stop. Please stop being stupid. Stop obsessively believing the narrative that the Chiefs get all the calls. No, the reality is the Chiefs are the ones regularly hosed by the rotten calls and non-calls, one after the other after the other (we could talk about a half-a-dozen more obvious ones!) and there is a reason for that.
What about what Chris Jones did, giving up in the middle of the end-of-game game-changing Jags play and not going after their QB when he slipped and fell, yet got right back up and scored the game-winning touchdown? Yes, I agree, Jones should have followed through on the play. He shouldn't have checked out. After this I know he'll know to be sure to play hard for the duration next time. That's all good. But you know?
That play came right after the idiotic call against Conner. And it came right after all the other idiotic officiating calls that went against the Chiefs leaving them in that ridiculous predicament. Call after non-call after call after non-call that wrecked the Chiefs chances. Sorry but the Chiefs should have won this one easily, 38-14, at least. However many stupid things they did should not have cost them at all, because it never should have come down to that.
But as much as Jones shouldn't have given up on that play, I get it. I get it, Chris Jones! I get why you feel the way you do. The Chiefs players will later talk all about how they need to be better and step it up and practice harder and be more disciplined and do this and do that themselves and yadda yadda yadda what they're supposed to say so they don't get in trouble and bite the hand that feeds them -- they will never call out the officiating -- but you know? They know. They know what they must overcome. And in a very real sense, it can get painfully exasperating.
Chris Jones was hopelessly exasperated out there because of the massive idiocy that weighs against him, his team, and their chances. Is his debilitating dejection an excuse? By all means no, and again he admits that himself. But it does say something critically important that people are simply not seeing.
I also took a sec to peek at some of the comments to the first story about this game at the fine Chiefs blog, Arrowhead Pride. Alas, here's what I saw, among about 100 comments.
Over and over and over again Chiefs fans ripping on this team as if it isn't a good team, it's not a playoff team, it isn't this that we'd like from them or it isn't that thing they should be. On and on and on the stupidity flowed. Yes the Chiefs did some stupid things that were just plain magnified more than they should have been, so it is easy to blap loudly about them. But (a) they are uncharacteristic and can happen to any team in any given game, and (b) those things should not have hurt them at all if it weren't for the patented Scorecasting-proven officiating iniquities.
No, the Chiefs are an exceptionally good team. With Brett Veach and Patrick Mahomes, and yes a little bit of Andy Reid, this team should dominate every single game. Absolutely dominate. But that is bad for business, so the NFLers must throw a wrench in it. We are blessed to enjoy the exploits of a phenomenally talented team that is getting shafted by the NFLers as well as the fans who believe the narrative and squeal so deafeningly that there is no favoring by refs, or if there is, it favors the Chiefs.
No, there is favoring by the officiating, it is made to be that way, it does heavily favor the Chiefs opponents, by far, and yes, it does very much affect the Chiefs' ability to play the game they would be playing otherwise and in turn does negatively impact the final outcomes of their contests.
Yet I am seeing people see that reality in very few places. It was encouraging to see among those Arrowhead Pride comments actually a few, maybe one in twenty, of thoughtfully observant people who do see it! Bless them. May not mean anything, I get that, sadly, but bless them all the same.
When I see more people seeing the reality and maybe shifting the narrative a bit more to force those under the influence of the Scorecasting verities to make things fair, even if that means the teams that should be winning on their own merits and not on the manufactured advantages are allowed to win (what a concept!) even if those teams are not the Chiefs, then I'll be happy.
Hoping to interact with them. Smart, thoughtful, observant, principled, truthful people. They are good to interact with. It'd be nice if more Chiefs fans got it, but it'd be just as great to do it with anyone who sincerely like seeing and talking about truthful things.
But yeah, us Jeremiahs and Cassandras can be very lonely, that has always been our punishment for seeing things the way they are in real actual reality. For future Chiefs games I'm sure I'll stick around to enjoy their entireties because I'll always like my Chiefs, no matter what they're up against. Maybe, just maybe Patrick et al are as profoundly good as I think they are, as I am firmly insisting they are here in this blog effort -- really, that's one reason I'm still in on all this, to see that they overcome all the crap.
Sometimes though, it is really hard, I have to say, it is really, really hard when you know what's really going on.
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