Is the NFL rigged?

As rigged as the 2020 election

Not rigged but certainly managed in order to drive parity. Definitely a very Marxist type business model. Better Draft picks and easier SOS for the teams doing poorly coupled with Revenue sharing and salary caps virtually guarantee parity over time.
Throw in the new rules that are heavily slanted to promoting offense and you make games very competitive and unpredictable.
injuries and piss poor management are wild cards of course

What comeback are you talking about?

Not necessarily rigged, but games can turn on a referee call or lucky play, so it isn’t always a matter of the better team winning. Sometimes it’s not worth watching because it is no longer a contest of athletic performance.

I can't stand all these NFL players thinking they're the $hit. Joey Bosa throwing a tantrum. Tyreek Hill thinking he's all that. Etc. I have bigger muscles than all of them. I've been in the WEIGHT ROOM lately.

There are how many thousands of people most not knowing each other able to keep the fact the NFL is rigged a secret. No player who got waived ever got mad and spilled the beans, really? So just how is this done? So all these rets get paid ny the mob to fix things, really? really? have any idea what it takes to become an NFL ref?

Come on rookies hell no the NFL isn't rigged, never has been and nevdr will be, way too many people involved to let that work.

So, yes.

They need to change the pass interference penalty. Picking up 50 yards on a judgement call that can go either way is BS. Make it like the NCAA rule where the max penalty is 15 yards.

The reason why it isn't like the NCAA is because DBs are too smart, too athletic. If they get beat and know they are about to give up a big play, maybe even a touchdown all they would need to do without the current rule is to tackle the player before the ball gets there. Giving up 15 yards when they would have likely given up 50 is a no brainer. I agree that the officiating is questionable and how and what they enforce is inconsistent. That's a personnel issue. We need better officiating. The rule itself is fair.

I think some "penalties" are called to help a "popular" (or hated) team and enhance their chances of winning.

When the Patriots were on top and were the team everyone watched to see them lose, they had calls going their way at crucial points in the game to keep a drive alive or stall their opponent's drive.

I likened them to Muhammed Ali in his prime- people watched to see him lose- as popular as he was (I loved him) there were people who hated him for his race and his arrogance. They watched to see him lose.

It's not rigged like the WWE, where theres a script and it's rehearsed like a play. I do think that the refs are key to give the star players every benefit while either ignoring penalties or calling penalties that benefit those star players/teams.

Call it bias, or call it rigged.. its not honest.

If anyone thinks that the AFC Championship won't be Chiefs-Bills, they're fooling themselves. After last year, the NFL won't make the mistake of having a rematch of those two teams in any round that isn't the AFC Championship. Plus, if you wanted to convince me after all the belly-aching about overtime possessions and all the crying about it that that game will go to overtime, it wouldn't take much to convince me. Josh Allen will have the opportunity to have the ball in overtime against KC this year. Too much has gone into everything for it not to happen that way.

Additionally, if anyone thinks that the Bills won't be the AFC team in the Super Bowl with the "KC Overtime Revenge" Game that will be the AFC championship and the "Do it for Damar" storylines they can pump up for the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, again, they're fooling themselves.

I don't think the NFL is rigged, but with the ability to control a game (especially in the final minutes), the officials can dictate who wins. With billions of dollars being legally gambled on the NFL every year, it's the officials that can be corrupt.

Two people can keep a secret as long as one of them are dead.

So the answer is no. Too many moving parts.

One certainty though is that it is probably human nature by a referee to be a bit more generous in their calls to a team that is down by 27 points, possibly even giving them the benefit of a close first down call. Is that enough to swing some momentum? I don't know. The Jags/Chargers debacle was much more due to crappy coaching decisions I think.

Also, if it is some kind of conspiracy, one of the people in the know is always going to pick a book deal over keeping the secret. I'm looking at you Moon Landing Conspiracy Theorists.

No.

You can go through every play and find something. While we (and media) often point to some play (often late in a game) as being a turning point, they often ignore a play or call in the first quarter that might be hugely impactful.

I am leaving out injuries here.

It is still a game of athletic performance even when bad calls occur.

Sometimes "lucky" plays are not luck but good execution.

Yes, I have seen that exact thing, when a missed call early changes the trajectory of the game so it's barely worth watching. Like the Jaguars playoff game, they missed an interference and got an interception. They missed another interference and got an interception on the next play. To their credit, the Jaguars came back from the adversity, but most of the time those missed calls would determine the game.

4 missed extra points last night by Maher and the under covers by .5 points. There's definitely some single players who have influenced outcomes for $$$$.

I’m not sure exactly what you’re trying to say, but I do see that many decisions seem to be coming out of NY. That’s concerning to say the least