NFL legend Champ Bailey was among those glued to the television as he watched the controversial penalties called on the Houston Texans during their playoff loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.

Patrick Mahomes drew two penalties that had the NFL world talking on Saturday and nearly drew a third when he was accused of flopping out of bounds on the sideline as the Chiefs drove down the field.

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Bailey, a former Denver Broncos and then-Washington Redskins star cornerback, was upset about the penalty flags on the two plays, especially the one where Mahomes tried to slide at the last minute before being met by two Texans defenders. Houston linebacker Henry To’oTo’o was called for unnecessary roughness on the play.

“It’s like anything else. They go through everything,” he said. “So when they’re able to go back and look at those kinds of plays, like the play I think you’re referring to on [Saturday] when he falls to the ground and then the guys walk over him, he doesn’t even hit him, but it looks like they do. You should be able to go through that [on] a level and say, well, it wasn’t as violent as we thought in real time, because those things change the trajectory of the game. You are really changing the outcome now.

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Champ Bailey collaborated with Truelieve. (True)

“Defenders are hesitant to hit him, but here he is. He dances around, plays around with guys and makes it look like he’s the runner and then drops down, and now he’s protected like a quarterback. When you first is outside the pocket man it’s fair game I don’t know why he’s protected when he’s outside the pocket like he was because if he was the left and did the same thing do you think they throw the flag ?No, they do not.”

All he asks for is some consequence.

“So let’s be consistent like that, and when you’re wrong, try to get it right,” Bailey said. “I think the more they can get calls in real time, the integrity of the game increases and people start to believe that the games are not fixed.

“I don’t feel the games are fixed because I was in it, but sitting here every year – I’m out of the league – the more and more I start to believe what the fans say about the games. getting ‘fixed’, because you see things like this happen over and over again, so they just have to figure out a way to get the calls right and live with it.”

Mahomes said Wednesday that he did not believe the officials were favoring the Chiefs.

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes gets ready before the AFC divisional round playoff game against the Houston Texans. (Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images)

“I’m just trying to play football at the end of the day. The refs are doing their best to call the game as fair and accurate as they can,” Mahomes said. “For me, it’s going out there, playing hard, trying to do what I can to win the football game and then living with the results based on my effort and how I play the game, and that’s what we preach here in Kansas City.”

Kansas City will face the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship on Sunday.