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Fans tuning successful for nan first NFL crippled of nan play connected Thursday nighttime were rewarded pinch a tight title that ended successful a Chiefs victory. They were besides treated to a barrage of flags that confounded many.
The NFL's title committee has made it a constituent of accent for referees to ace down connected forbidden formations - particularly erstwhile it comes to lineman who statement up offset from each other.
According to nan rules, a punishment would beryllium called if a squad 'has grounded to decently align pinch 7 players connected nan statement of scrimmage astatine nan commencement of an violative play'.
By nan 2nd play of nan night, nan Baltimore Ravens were emotion nan brunt of nan official's whistle.
All told, nan squad would beryllium penalized 5 times for nan infraction - including 3 times connected their first thrust of nan contest.
The Ravens violative statement kept getting deed pinch forbidden statement penalties connected Thursday night
Ronnie Stanley successful peculiar was deed pinch 3 penalties for lining up somewhat off
The Ravens were nan only squad penalized for this connected nan evening - starring immoderate to judge that nan referees were successful favour of Kansas City, aliases that they were making their stamp connected nan crippled excessively big.
'I tin judge losing. I cant judge nan refs cheating. #nflfixed,' fumed Barstool Sports president Dave Portnoy connected societal media.
Even state euphony prima Zach Bryan sewage successful connected nan action, saying, 'do we extremity watching now aliases is it nan refs nan full crippled we think.'
Former Ravens prima wide receiver Torrey Smith said, 'I spot nan timeline is overreacting. It looks for illustration nan first crippled of nan twelvemonth for everyone! Referees included.' - only for nan prima to rumor a 2nd tweet, saying, 'Update - These refs are TRIPPIN!'
Ex-NFL lineman and podcast big Will Compton wrote, 'Just springiness nan refs reddish jerseys my god.'
Former NFL backmost Kurt Benkert wrote, 'I really bask watching nan Chiefs play football. I emotion their style and each of that. I don't bask nan refs sliders being group to 70 successful favour of them. They don't request thief to win. They are 1 of nan champion teams successful this league. Just telephone it EVEN and fto nan guys play.'
'NFL Refs conscionable fto nan Chiefs do immoderate they want lol,' wrote a instrumentality account.
Fans and erstwhile NFL players were shocked by nan referees - pinch immoderate reasoning it was rigged
The 1 who sewage it nan worst was Ravens lineman Ronnie Stanley, who was deed 3 times successful nan first half pinch forbidden statement calls.
According to Jeff Zrebiec of The Athletic, Stanley said, 'he felt nan refs were trying to make an illustration retired of him pinch [the] forbidden statement call. Said it was not called nan measurement nan squad was told it would beryllium called erstwhile nan pro refs were astatine training campy practices.'
Zrebiec besides reported that Stanley said, 'he was looking astatine really nan Chiefs tackles were lining up and he couldn't understand why [the] Ravens were getting called and KC wasn't. He's calling for accountability pinch refs.'
