I dislike the Patriots as much as anyone seeing their first Super Bowl was due to the tuck rule abomination as that Super Bowl was the Raiders for the taking and I do agree the officiating was curious yesterday. The Jaguars only committed five DPI calls all season which was lowest in the league and got two called against them. I personally believe that both of those calls were legitimate especially the 2nd one which was blatant. That said they were the lowest penalized defense in football so for them to get eight penalties called against them for almost 100 yards while the Patriots just one (fewest in a playoff game since 2011) probably begs some investigation especially when there were several plays where they contacted Jaguars receivers before the ball arrived that looked like clear pass interference to me. Not going to call it a conspiracy but that officiating crew did a pretty poor job IMO of calling a balanced game as there's no doubt one team got away with more than the other.
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