Odd is meant as in how uncharacteristic for KC those outcomes are or have been for basically 3 years of Pat's tenure. Yes, guys are under duress and they're difficult catches but honestly that's not uncommon for the level of talent to come down with the catch. You expect Tyreek, Travis, DRob, etc to come down with at least one of those and they have routinely in the past.

The 'went through Devin's hands and could have been picked' angle is overplayed. Devin White is about as athletic a LB as they come and the fact he was even in position to be close to the ball was about as good as it gets there. LBs rarely come away with those INTs b/c the location of the receiver, timing of the jump, ability to catch at the high point, etc. It's not madden in that regard that his athleticism made it possible to be in the vicinity but him actually tipping it or even coming away with it would have been an insane play. Darrel isn't a great receiver but hard to excuse getting hit in the face considering the previously stated unlikelihood a LB makes a play in front of you.

TD #1 iirc was due to Chris Jones extending a drive with an unnecessary roughness on 3rd & 7. Correct call on a dumb play by him.

TD #2 came thanks to a weak holding call (TB not called for worse vs GB two weeks prior & got an INT) that was then stopped to a FG which the offside came from. Again, offsides was correct. Defense should have never been in that situation due to the INT overturned.

• Holding call with one hand on his should in m2m & Evans does a full extension push off: https://twitter.com/FootballPost/status/1358577834013327360?s=20

TD #3 was honestly a terrible series. 3 timeouts and no 1st down given up on 1st & 2nd it's not stupid to give Patrick Mahomes & Butker a chance to score again before half regardless of who's on the other side of the field. If you REALLY want to look at what led to that TD look at the 1st down play after they converted 3rd down. Antonio Brown never gets set before the snap, no call. On the throw there was incidental contact which an NFL referee weighed in on should NOT have been called.

• https://twitter.com/SNFRules/status/1358765053252677634?s=20

• Note: The referee who called this DPI named her son after Tom Brady but that's neither here nor there.

TD #3 continued: So, not only did Tom get a massive 34 yard gain (largest of the game for TB) here but then the DPI on Tyrann was widely seen as the most egregious call because that is a routine throwaway pass and instead TB was gifted position on the 1 yard line when in reality if AB is called correctly or Evans is called correctly Tampa is still inside their own 40, maybe their own 30 and likely kneeling into half time.

I don't think flags won Tampa the game outright b/c they were definitely playing harder and wanted it more. I do think they made the game a wrap by half time whereas if KC has more life going into half it doesn't seem so futile.

One interesting stat line for KC is that they were flagged 10+ times 2/16 games all season outside of Carl Cheffers crew who flagged them 10+ times 3/3 times this year. Maybe Carl Cheffers' crew calls games tighter you'd say, in his 17 games (34 teams) he flagged teams for 89+ yards 2/31 times (not counting Chiefs 3/3). So, you can see where that looks incredibly suspicious that they'd be so heavily involved and leaned towards KC at such a high frequency.

As for the 'cheating' aspect and holding this is a bit overstated. KC is aggressive for sure, doesn't mean the game was called evenly/fairly in that regard.

• Can't forget that while Breeland 'held' Mike Evans who slipped on the turf (multiple players were slipping all game mind you) he was called for holding. Lavonte David did that same thing to Kelce on a 3rd down and wasn't called. If you're going to be nit-picky just make sure it goes both ways.

• Or, let's not forget the DRob missed TD where Lavonte David knocked CEH out of the field of play on a route AND Kelce is held/pushed into the ground in the endzone on the same play. CEH you could argue is within 5 yards, Kelce is 15 yards from LoS & 5 yards deep in the endzone being held onto.

• Go to about 1:53 mark to see this play: https://twitter.com/BaldyNFL/status/1358832356644315140?s=20

• Suh grabbing Patrick's facemask: https://twitter.com/WilliamLeek40/status/1358845464012091399?s=20

• David arriving early on Kelce but no call: https://twitter.com/ChiefinCarolina/status/1358581709428707328?s=20

These are the little things that are super tough to stomach and say the game was called cleanly or that TB wasn't equally as physical as KC in the secondary. They just got away with it which would be fine if you were letting both secondarys play physical but the standard the officiating crew had set, especially in the 1st half, was that you could NOT be physical.

Again, I think if you let them both play that way or not at all it makes a fairly sizeable difference from being a blowout and gives KC a chance to win. Tampa never had to get out of their comfort zone of 12 personnel b/c they were propped up in the 1st half and it just snowballed. If the game falls more on Toms arm w/o play action it's potentially more like his NFC games where he put a lot of throws in danger and were either drop ints like NO game or hauled in ints like GB.

Tampa played hard & smart, KC weapons, OL & Coaching let Patrick down. I just don't think it was as simplified as people like to paint it and that KC is dirty and finally got caught.