Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins wants to know why nobody is pointing out some of the “touchy calls” that went against his team in the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday.
In a mind-numbing display of chutzpah, Hopkins complained about the officiating as if the refs were in the bag for the Eagles. He was noticeably silent about refs the rest of the season – in which the Chiefs were repeatedly the beneficiary of questionable calls.
“I saw a lot of things in the media about the refs, but what y’all going to say now about the refs and us when there were a lot of touchy calls?” Hopkins huffed and puffed.
“Are you all going to report that? Are you all going to talk about the refs now?”
Hopkins had two catches for just 18 yards in the blowout loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, though he contributed a touchdown with under three minutes to go in the game, cutting his team’s deficit to just 26 points.
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Were The Refs Out To Get The Chiefs?
First of all, DeAndre, the difference between what the refs have done for the Chiefs all year long and what happened in the Super Bowl are apples to oranges.
While “touchy calls” made the difference in several of Kansas City’s one-score games this season, especially in the playoffs, where they blatantly swung momentum and the game in their favor, these ticky-tack fouls you’re alleging weren’t going to sway anything in the Super Bowl.
The Eagles stomped the Chiefs, making the game too big to rig. What he felt might have been “touchy” wasn’t going to fix things when the Chiefs were down 24-0 at the half and 40-6 at one point midway through the fourth quarter.
In the end, the Eagles were flagged eight times compared to Kansas City’s seven.
Hopkins Done Lost His Mind
If anything, the fact that the refs had carried the Chiefs into a game they had no business playing was further exposed by what happened in Super Bowl LIX. Kansas City was perhaps the worst 15-win team in league history, often getting bailed out of situations by suspect calls late in their games – most of which they won by a touchdown or less.
The Houston Texans were the victims of a pair of phantom roughing-the-passer calls in their 23-14 loss to the Chiefs in their AFC Divisional round matchup.
The Buffalo Bills? Well, there’s an entire 5-minute video breakdown of the staggeringly one-sided calls during the AFC Championship game.
In fact, the refs may have taken some points off the board for the Eagles early in the game when they called offensive pass interference on wide receiver A.J. Brown. Brown had just hauled in a 32-yard reception that would have put the ball at the Chiefs’ 18-yard line, but his nudge of a defender’s helmet was deemed egregious enough to bring it back.
That may have cost Philly three or seven points.
The NFL referees union was being criticized so heavily heading into the Super Bowl that they were forced to issue a statement saying any assertion that officials were making calls in favor of Kansas City was “insulting and preposterous.”
But yeah, Hopkins thinks they suddenly bailed on their assignment and went all in on the Eagles in the season’s final game.
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