Impact of Referee Clete Blakeman on NFL Game Outcomes

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00:00Yeah, you sent me all these numbers on Cleet Blakeman, who, of course, will call the Chiefs

00:06and the Bills in the AFC title game.

00:08Here we go.

00:09Let me give you some of them.

00:10Home teams are in NFL Worst 5 and 11 straight up in 2024, 5 and 11 with Cleet Blakeman.

00:20Since 2016, home teams' ATS are 46.5 percent, so less than 50 percent of the time home teams

00:29cover with Blakeman as the ref.

00:3253.5 percent of Blakeman's penalties were assessed to home teams this year.

00:37So usually there's a little bit of that bias, Scotty, that's involved with home cooking,

00:42et cetera, things like that.

00:44Blakeman is the absolute furthest thing from that talking point.

00:50He goes nowhere near the home teams.

00:53Now in terms of these teams significantly, the Bills are 6-2 straight up and 4-4 against

00:59the spread with Blakeman in the Josh Allen era.

01:03The Chiefs are 5-6 straight up and 4-6-1 ATS with Blakeman since 2018.

01:11But one of those wins was an end of the season game where Mahomes didn't even play.

01:16It was Chad Henney in at quarterback.

01:18So in reality, Patrick Mahomes, 4-6 straight up with Blakeman as the head official.

01:26You know, I'll believe it when I see it.

01:29You know, all of these stats and numbers and trends and what he's done against the Chiefs

01:35all sound wonderful and just absolutely exciting for me, very excited about it.

01:43But what I want to see is that in the game on Sunday night, I want to see them actually

01:53do it, call the game fair, just call the game fair.

01:57If I see bad calls against the Bills early, I mean, first and second quarter, that'll

02:04be all you need to know, that if they start calling stuff against Buffalo early, that's

02:10all you need to know that they fix games for the Chiefs.

02:13That's just all there is to it.

02:15Last week was disgusting.

02:20No one wants to just call it for what it was.

02:23It was disgusting.

02:25Those calls were reprehensible.

02:27They were awful.

02:29And they were anemic calls.

02:31And then, you know, even when I watched the Bills game, the refs were terrible.

02:37I thought the holding call on Buffalo was so bad.

02:41It was laughable.

02:42Like, can we just get refs that call a good game for effing once in the NFL?

02:50I've been hearing how they're the best refs in the world just ad nauseam.

02:56And the reality of it is, every fan that I know, every, you know, I go to games, I go

03:03to tons of games.

03:05Every fan I know thinks the NFL refs suck, that they're awful.

03:10I've never heard anyone say any of them are any good.

03:14Yesterday, you told me the guy doing the Super Bowl is a really good ref.

03:18My ass, I don't believe any of them are good.

03:21I think they're all awful.

03:23And what they should do is be lovers with baseball refs because they're even worse.

03:27They're even worse.

03:28So don't get me started.

03:29I've already told you the best refs in sports or in the NHL, for the most part,

03:34I'd say 75% of the time, the NHL refs call a good game.

03:40And they let them play and they call obvious, you know, penalties.

03:46And, you know, you see the refs make calls that the coaches scream and yell about

03:51here and there.

03:51But I think that's 25% of the time.

03:54In the NFL, I go to games and I literally watch 90% of the calls are ass mustard.

04:02They're just awful calls.

04:04They can't even get replays right.

04:06They can't do anything right.

04:08They can't even manage the clock.

04:10They're a disaster.

04:11And I'm done with anything else.

04:13I'm done with it.

04:15I'm not going to sit and listen to it.

04:16Watching an NFL game is like getting your head bashed in with a hammer.

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