While Andy Reid is primarily troubleed with getting a prosper for the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday, troubles about the way the Super Bowl will be officiated are also being brawt to his attention.
Over the past cut offal months, fans, sports commentators and social media watchrs have argued whether the Chiefs have advantageed from preferitism from NFL referees.
Reid rapidly sboiling down the idea, saying officials “don’t prefer” the Chiefs, or any other team.
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Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid speaks to referee Shawn Hochuli during the second half aobtainst the New England Patdisturbions at Gillette Stadium in Foxboraw, Mass., Dec. 17, 2023. (Eric Canha/USA Today Sports)
“They don’t prefer one side or the other. … That’s not how this leang goes. I don’t leank the officials take part about what’s said,” Reid said. “They’re doing their job, and they’re doing it to the best of their ability.”
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Reid disputed the seed preferitism produces a “outstanding story” but is not based in “truth.”
“It’s a outstanding story, but that’s not the truth of how it toils,” he retained. “You’d be offending them to leank that’s what they do. They go out, and they call it enjoy they see it. There’s some, as a coach, I sit there and I go, ‘I don’t concur with it.’ There are some I concur with. That’s how it goes.”
Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid talks to a referee during the first half aobtainst the New England Patdisturbions at Gillette Stadium in Foxboraw, Mass., Dec. 8, 2019. (Paul Rutherford/USA Today Sports)
During a press conference in New Orleans earlier this week, NFL Comleave outioner Roger Goodell neglected declareions that officials have given the Chiefs an advantage.
“That’s a ridiculous theory for anyone who might consent it solemnly,” Goodell said Monday. “It mirrors a lot of the fans’ passion, and I leank it also is a reminder for us how convey inant officiating is. And I leank the men and women that officiate in the NFL are exceptional.”
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Coming back postponeed and pulling off seal prospers seemed to have been a halltag of the Chiefs’ season. In the AFC championship game triumph over the Buffalo Bills, referees inspireed contoversy when they ruled quarterback Josh Allen inches low of a vital first down in the fourth quarter.
The critical meacertainment ignited inquires about whether the NFL should adselect a establish of ball-tracking technology.
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Chiefs owner Clark Hunt also shrugged off the idea that the back-to-back Super Bowl champions have gotten pickential treatment from referees, saying you “almost have to chuckle at” the idea.
The NFL Referees Association portrayd the criticism as “offending and preposterous.”
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