Every single game that has ever been lost in the NFL has been because the refs were bad. If the refs were good, every game would end in a tie and the playoff algorithm would eat itself trying to place 32 franchises who all went 0-0-16. This is what I gather from fan responses on social media whenever their favorite team loses, because it seems every single game is lost not on the lack of execution of the players, but because the refs are just so impossibly bad that they singlehandedly ruined one team’s chances at victory.
Or, perhaps—and hear me out—the refs are humans who are just as fallible as the players, and 99.