Texans Postgame: Officiating was terrible, swung the game in Chiefs' favor

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The Texans played a decent game against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium. But they had to overcome both the defending Super Bowl champions and the officiating. Sean Pendergast and Clint Stoerner discuss it in the postgame show.

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00:00We have, we've been here before. This is the sixth time we've been here. The Texans have

00:04been to the divisional rounds six times in the history of the franchise, including the

00:07last two seasons. And each of those six times we are left wondering what needs to happen

00:13in order to get to an AFC title game. And you look at tonight's game or today's game,

00:19which bled into tonight. And if you had told me before this game that the Texans would

00:23out gain the chiefs by 124 yards, that they would gain 150 yards on the ground in this

00:29game, that Joe Mixon would go for nearly a hundred yards, went for 88 yards on 18 carries,

00:35that the Texans would out possess the chiefs by nearly seven minutes of clock time, 10

00:40of 17 on third down. These are all key indicators. Why would they want it won this game, but

00:46unfortunately a combination of the chiefs coming up big in situations where if you just

00:50give them a little bit of an inch, they take a mile.

00:53And I will say this too, a combination of that and yes, all of you fretting and chewing

00:58your nails about the referees throughout the week where I had said, Hey man, live your

01:02life a little bit better. Get excited for the game. Don't worry about the referees until

01:05you have to. Today was a victory for you. Two huge, huge penalties called on roughing

01:12Patrick Mahomes that wound up, especially the one early in the game wound up being big.

01:16I know that's going to be a topic for a lot of you tonight. And I know what needs to happen

01:20in the post season or in the off season here for the Texans to finally get over the hump.

01:25All going to be big topics. A lot of turning points in this game as well. Can already write

01:29the list down of people I think are going to catch heat from you guys. I think there

01:32were some Texans that had really good games tonight too, but ultimately the final score

01:3523 to 14, the chiefs beat the Houston Texans and the off season has begun Clint Sterner.

01:42So this will be our last post game show of the year. So we've got to make this baby count

01:467, 1, 3, 5, 7, 2, 4, 6, 10. Your initial thoughts on the game today.

01:51Uh, look, I feel a lot better right now than I felt, uh, after the Baltimore game last

01:55year. So, so, uh, we're moving in the right direction. I can tell you that I immediately

01:59thought after this ball game, I was like, okay, how does this compare to last year?

02:03And obviously it takes me to the way you go out. And I feel, I feel better about the way

02:09this team lost in the playoffs this year than the way they lost last year. Last year left you

02:14wondering was the whole season of fluke. Are they really as good as, as you think is CJ

02:19as good as you think is Nico as good as you think is this offense really as good as, as you think

02:25now you look at it. And, and I think they went out there and put a product on the field that I

02:30think most Texans fans could be proud of given what they were up against with the Kansas city

02:34chiefs. Now you get to the game and what we watched, I am not typically a, um, lead with

02:42the referee lead with bad calls. Um, I am a okay with people venting, whether it be on social

02:48media or callers calling in here on that text line, you're over there looking at, I have no

02:52problem today with discussing, uh, piss poor calls you're talking about. I mean, unbelievably

02:58egregious roughing calls, uh, that involve Pat, my homes that just cannot happen. Both of them

03:04happen on scoring drives. There was a field goal that followed the one that the roughing, the Will

03:09Anderson's roughing the pastor in the, in the first drive, there was a, it was a touchdown drive in

03:14the second quarter. I believe it was, um, when, when the other roughing call happened. And so

03:21that don't, don't tell me that either keeping a drive alive the first time, cause it was an

03:25incomplete pass on third down or flipping the field by 20 yards. You go from your 35 to now

03:31you're in, in Houston territory on the 35 flipping the field, 20 yards there. Um, you can't tell me

03:37that's not just a huge, especially again, when you're playing Pat my homes and Andy Reed on the

03:42road and that weather that is just difficult to overcome. And, and, and those were two piss poor

03:48egregious calls to where, again, it's not going to be top of the conversations just with the

03:54callers here in Houston. That's going to be top of the conversation on TV shows, like tonight,

04:01tomorrow, and moving forward because something has to be done about it. Uh, you know, you just

04:07can't have a playoff game affected the way that this one was with those two penalties.

04:12I think that's a general issue around the league right now, how that's called, but it, it was,

04:16it was so accentuated today. One, cause it was my homes too, because of the timing of those calls.

04:21Like you said, the first one, man, if the Texans get off the field early in that game, you know,

04:27with a game still tied at three early in that game, and you get off the field on that third

04:31Nate, the I'm a firm believer that like, there are a lot of forks in the road and games where games

04:36can change drastically. And those forks can be eight minutes into the game, you know? And, and

04:40so, so I think the timing of those calls, but just the, they weren't even borderline like they like

04:46will Anderson's helmet. Didn't hit Patrick Mahomes helmet, Henry Toa Toa. He went helmet to helmet

04:53with his teammates on player. Like it was, it was, it was crazy. So, and I hate that as I'm

04:58watching these, I'm like my, my least favorite kind of radio is referee blaming rate, right?

05:03Because I led with that, but I can't help. No, no, no. I know you and I are on the same

05:07page with this thing, man. Like it, those were two massive calls in this game and I could live

05:12with it a little bit more if the Texans were deficient in several other areas of this game.

05:16But I thought the Texans actually played. I thought they like overall, I thought they played

05:22about a B or a B plus game today in Kansas city. I thought the defense played an a game considering

05:27the situations they were put into and those calls that we're talking about here. Yeah,

05:31absolutely. The fact that they didn't turn Kansas city or I shouldn't say a game and a

05:34game would have involved winning the turnover margin. Well, at least the B plus. I mean,

05:38look, you're, you're up against it. I mean, there's at the end of the day,

05:42I just think there's several conversations here because I've got, I've got a conversation that

05:47we got to have of, of how in the hell are we still dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. And I got a few

05:53things that we got to discuss. How are we still seeing these things in critical moments of a ball

05:58game at 19 to 20 weeks into the damn season. Like I got a problem with that, but we've got to lead

06:03with these penalties because the issue with the penalties, right. Is, is you, we can talk about

06:08the penalties and the effect they had on, on, on those specific drives. And then if you take it

06:14away from just looking at the box score, the team stats and look at how they happen, you also had

06:18Pat Mahomes running the sideline and flop trying to pull another one. Clearly he knew that they

06:22were looking out for him and he was trying to draw into the penalty, right. I mean, he LeBron

06:26flopped on the damn sideline. Right. And then you look at the second roughing call where he was

06:30running the football one, he's running the football, but okay. It's a quarterback. You got

06:34to protect him instead of Detroit and made the, I thought he made a great point. He could have just

06:38went and got the extra yards and got out of bounds, but instead he cuts back in he's bobbing

06:42and weaving. He's playing this little delay game and baiting guys and then dropping bottom, dropping

06:47out of him the last second expected not to get hit all in all. I think they were bull jive calls.

06:53I think it's, I think it's exactly like Pat, what Pat Mahomes did today is exactly what you're

06:58trying to get out of the game. Not the slide late, not the slide, the egregious hit what you're

07:03trying to get out of the game is exactly what Pat Mahomes did today. And he's clearly aware of what

07:07he's doing because he's flopping like LeBron on the sideline. I just, and here's the other thing.

07:11I don't know the rule. I, this is the first time I've ever heard Troy Hickman. And I guess it was

07:16Joe Buck talking about, you know, they could, the officials could overturn the call on the

07:21roughing call on the field. I don't know how you don't overturn both of those calls.

07:25One. Yeah, both. They, they were both when Troy Hickman is done with this

07:29whole scenario, these core Troy Hickman is so done with these quarterbacks,

07:34tippy-toeing around trying to draw and that's a quarterback that his career ended with a concussion.

07:38That's like, yeah, yeah. Troy Hickman has been concussed more times than the starting quarterbacks

07:42in the league combined probably right now. Yeah. Look, I, I just, I just don't, I mean,

07:47for me, man, it's, it's a, I have a hard time playing this card, but, but not today, man,

07:52that was, it's too difficult. It's too difficult to go on the road and play that football team

07:57and win in that environment. It's too difficult to do that. And look, you can't give up opening

08:02kickoffs at 60 yards. You can't, you can't give up sacks when the game, when it's a one score game,

08:07the way that the way that you gave up sacks, you can't do those things. Correct. But that's

08:13a Texan problem. Yeah. The ref things should not be a problem, right? The bad calls should not be

08:18a part of the game. So miss me with the, Oh, you attempted a 50 plus yard field goal and missed it

08:23and gave Pat Mahomes the ball. And, and you know, your field goal missed it. Your, your field kicker

08:27missed an extra point and you did this and you did that. Those are all Texans things, all good

08:31and fair. We can talk about that at any given time. That's part of the game is the players are

08:35responsible for it. This crap with these officials and given the fact that it could have been

08:39reviewed, it should, it shouldn't, it just shouldn't happen. Yep.

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