There are so many things to talk about this week! An arrest. An article that fanned the flames on a seat many fans think should already be hot. A huge Conference win to keep the Buffalo Bills playoff hopes alive. What should we talk about? I know! Rules and numbers! I know a few of you sickos have been looking forward to this and for that I love ya.
his is fun. The Buffalo Bills rarely have this clean of a game with penalty counts, so let’s begin by basking in the glory of “lower than league average” for a minute. Now that you’ve appropriately basked, Kansas City was worse off than Buffalo, but the ref-hating KC fans won’t be reassured by the fact that their team was right around their season average. So far, advantage: Buffalo.
For the assessed yards on the left-hand side the teams were remarkably similar. Buffalo’s result seems in line with their counts. Kansas City’s seems a bit low but not terrible. It suggests that they overall steered toward procedural penalties.
On true yards, the Bills negated/impacted 24 yards, which is a decent jump. The Chiefs’ chart is wild as they more than double their yardage when considering negated/impacted yards. Bills Mafa will find it funny where most of that yardage came from.
For data lovers, it’s always special when one item on a bar graph throws the scale so far out of whack it makes everything else nearly impossible to compare. Thank you Kadarius Toney. We’ll come back to him in a minute. For now, let’s say there’s no point discussing the two false start flags or the neutral zone infraction.
Tight end Travis Kelce’s offensive pass interference was just the assessed yards as the pass was incomplete. He clearly pushed off, but not enough to make the catch. I’m not saying that so much to be petty as I am to make sure I start using the word “clearly” as soon as I can. Overall I felt Carl Cheffers’ crew did a great job and penalties were clearly the right call
