{"id":155534,"date":"2023-12-18T14:15:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T19:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=155534"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:25:25","slug":"matthew-judon-officiating-tweet-chiefs-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/12\/18\/matthew-judon-officiating-tweet-chiefs-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Defender Bashes Officiating In Chiefs-Patriots Matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots pass rusher Matthew Judon did not suit up for Week 15\u2019s matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs, but that didn\u2019t stop him from making some headlines during the contest. Even though they were heavy underdogs, the Patriots remained competitive through the first half of the game. However, multiple questionable penalties favored the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/02\/12\/kansas-city-chiefs-win-super-bowl-57-patrick-mahomes\/\" target=\"_self\">reigning Super Bowl champions<\/a>, which led to some interesting reactions on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Judon was one such tweeter, as the four-time Pro Bowler wasn\u2019t shy to call out the officiating. He led off by saying that the refs were \u201ccheating\u201d and later retweeted a photoshopped image of Patrick Mahomes kissing an official.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boy they cheating for these fn<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matthew Judon (@man_dammn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/man_dammn\/status\/1736470690226684288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I see no lies <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZiKCfSsNIS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZiKCfSsNIS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matthew Judon (@man_dammn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/man_dammn\/status\/1736496825224319478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Matthew Judon Accuses Officials of &#8220;Cheating&#8221; In Chiefs-Patriots Game<\/h2>\n<p>While these tweets were obviously jokes, the punchline only works if it comes from a place of truth. To be fair to Matthew Judon, the officiating deserved some criticism. Early in the game, the Patriots were driving down the field when a questionable Demario Douglas facemask penalty halted their progress. Instead of a potential touchdown, the Patriots had to watch as rookie kicker Chad Ryland missed a field goal attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Later on in the game, the Patriots appeared to catch a break when they recovered a Skyy Moore fumble. However, the play never counted thanks to another debatable holding call of defensive back Alex Austin. Instead of a turnover, the Patriots watched as Kansas City scored a field goal to increase their lead to 17-10. The refs also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chatham58\/status\/1736464045807403218?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">didn\u2019t call intentional grounding<\/a> on a separate Chiefs scoring drive.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, just about anyone with eyes would tell you that the officiating favored the Chiefs. However, nobody should be using that to discredit this win. Kansas City had a few fortunate calls, but even without those, they win this game comfortably. The Chiefs won by 10 despite Kadarius Toney handing the Patriots a free seven points, and the Chiefs kneeled at the goal line when they could have easily scored another touchdown, or at least taken a field goal. Even if Matthew Judon was on the field and those calls went New England\u2019s way, the Chiefs probably win this game.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Kevin Jairaj &#8211; USA Today Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots star pass rusher Matthew Judon accused the officials of cheating in Sundays Chiefs-Patriots game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":155535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5,36],"tags":[7811,7163,9131],"class_list":["post-155534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chiefs","category-patriots","category-nfl-news","tag-chiefs-featured","tag-matthew-judon","tag-skyy-moore"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}