The Buffalo Bills hosted the Kansas City Chiefs and hung on for a hard-fought win this past Sunday. Along the way they had to work through a couple of iffy calls from referee Carl Cheffers and his crew.

Now don’t get wrong as I tend to choose my words carefully. Cheffers didn’t straight up blow any calls, and there’s zero hint of bias in the flags thrown. I’m going to stand by “iffy” though.

Standard and Advanced Metrics

Penalty Counts

I’m going to do something I rarely do up here in standard metrics: Real analysis. This is the usually reserved for some opening fluff, but not today. The fairness/bias of officials is a constant concern with these two teams, with fans of course divided over who’s getting “screwed” on the regular.

Neither team had all that many flags against them, but if

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