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Pro Football Hall of Famer Andre Reed underscored the trouble of defeating the Kansas City Chiefs astatine their location stadium amid frustrations with the nonaccomplishment the Buffalo Bills suffered successful the AFC Championship.
Reed, who starred arsenic a Bills wide receiver during the team’s 4 consecutive Super Bowl losses, watched again arsenic the squad fell abbreviated against the Chiefs. He touched connected the contention surrounding the questionable calls from officials that look to favour Kansas City arsenic well.
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Needless to say, the seven-time Pro Bowler was hot.
"The bottommost enactment is you conscionable gotta spell retired determination and not play against the refs, but you benignant of to a halfway point," Reed said connected "The Jim Rome Show." "A batch of Chiefs are going to archer maine I don't cognize what I'm talking about. That mightiness beryllium the case. But erstwhile you spell into Kansas City, you gotta bushed a batch of people. You gotta bushed the team, you gotta bushed the fans, you gotta bushed the refs, you gotta bushed Taylor Swift. You gotta bushed everybody.
"If you conscionable spell retired determination and propulsion that each retired the model and bushed Kansas City astatine their ain game, and bushed them, that each is ne'er gonna beryllium said. Yesterday we didn't bash that."
Reed said helium wasn’t definite if the Bills would person won if the Xavier Worthy catch was overturned to beryllium an incomplete walk and if Josh Allen got the archetypal down connected a 4th-and-1 play.
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But it was those 2 plays that had fans wondering what officials were looking astatine the full game.
Despite galore eyebrows being raised, Dean Blandino, the NFL's erstwhile caput of officiating, says helium doesn't spot favoritism toward the Chiefs.
"People are talking astir officiating a small excessively much.… It's ever going to beryllium a portion of the conversation," Blandino told TMZ Sports.
"Do teams get breaks astatine times? They do. And not each telephone is right. And sometimes that happens. I deliberation it evens retired implicit time. Me watching it, I don't spot these games and accidental the Chiefs are getting each these calls. These are close, adjacent plays, and they happened to spell successful the Chiefs' favour connected Sunday."
Blandino besides disputed immoderate conception determination is immoderate benignant of conspiracy to favour the Chiefs.
"I get it. I'm a instrumentality first. I grew up successful New York arsenic a Knicks instrumentality watching Michael Jordan crush my dreams and saying, 'The league wants Michael Jordan successful the championships.' Ultimately, erstwhile you're a portion of the NFL and you realize, for it to truly beryllium a conspiracy, bash you cognize the magnitude of radical that would person to beryllium involved?
"Someone determination would gaffe up, and it would get out. If determination was a country successful the NFL bureau wherever they were penning the script, they ne'er invited me, and I was the caput of officiating. I consciousness similar I'd beryllium a beauteous important contributor to that. I get it. People are passionate. I conscionable think, sometimes, officials marque mistakes… sometimes, erstwhile you person a squad that has been this successful, I deliberation it's par for the course."
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