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The melodramatic AFC Championship betwixt the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills included 2 officiating storylines that were the speech of the NFL satellite during the crippled and 1 that was a spot much underappreciated.
Patrick Mahomes’ touchdown tally successful the 2nd 4th saw a punishment travel flying astatine the extremity of the play. Bills information Damar Hamlin tried to tackle Mahomes earlier helium reached the extremity portion but was unsuccessful.
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Mahomes’ momentum carried him and Hamlin a fewer much yards earlier the backmost was tackled. Travis Kelce came implicit and gave Hamlin a fewer other words aft the touchdown. It wasn’t wide what the choky extremity said.
Bills antiaircraft lineman Jordan Phillips came implicit successful defence of Hamlin and got into the Chiefs star’s grill. Kelce flailed backward and Phillips was called for a penalty.
Tony Romo, the erstwhile Dallas Cowboys quarterback-turned-CBS broadcaster, noticed it and called Kelce out.
"Kelce knows however to get nether your skin," Romo said. "And Phillips comes successful … [Kelce] tries for the flop."
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The arguable calls astir the Chiefs person go a taxable of their playoff tally truthful far. Two questionable penalties were called connected the Houston Texans successful the Chiefs’ divisional circular win, and Mahomes tried for a 3rd erstwhile helium flailed retired of bounds aft a run.
Mahomes admitted helium went a small excessively acold to effort to gully a flag.
"I would accidental that the lone 1 I felt similar I astir apt did excessively overmuch was the 1 connected the sideline wherever I didn’t get a emblem and the ref saw it and didn’t propulsion a flag, and I understood it immediately," helium said successful a vigor interrogation past week.
"But astatine the aforesaid time, the 1 that everybody’s talking astir wherever I fell down, it’s similar I was conscionable trying to get retired of the mode of getting smoked by the antiaircraft lineman moving in.
"So, I’ll effort to support doing that and not instrumentality those hits due to the fact that that’s the astute mode to enactment successful the shot game."
All eyes volition beryllium connected the Chiefs successful Super Bowl LIX erstwhile they play the Philadelphia Eagles connected Feb. 9.
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