That's absurdly generous and you must know that. hell, you're probably the first Eagles fan that I've ever known or seen that would ever try to make that claim--at least not without laughing about it, lol.
Don't they fuckin brag about how their entire fanbase are such collective pieces of shit? That was like their claim to fame, kinda like Bills Mafia for eating ass and doing shit to hurt themselves, and throwing dildos on the field?
Pat Mcafee is insufferable. That said, I don't think it is any secret that good players get beneficial calls more often than average or bad players. Good WRs are more likely to beat the defense and get held or interfered with. Star QBs who can run around in the backfield and evade defenders are more likely to be hit late than average/bad QBs that take the sack right away or throw the ball away, etc etc. This isn't game fixing though.
They're
all insufferable. Not that sports media was ever good, but it seems particularly insufferable now, as you have the old people that grew up in the golden age of it, griping about crap or turning into worthless dipshits just posting inflammatory shit to try to get views, and then you have dumbfuck social media personalities just spouting whatever butt grade crap pops into their heads, and then you have the Brogan groupie dipshits and the guys like Mcafee that they glombed onto. And then you have random schmoes posting Zinfamous level sports takes all over social media.
That's not what they're saying. They're saying that Mahomes and the Chiefs get calls that aren't legitimate penalties. Like the idiots trying to say the hits in the Texans game weren't penalties when both were helmet to helmet hits. The one they just ignored the camera view that showed it as a clear helmet to helmet hit. Same with the people bitching about the blatant hold by the Eagles DB that setup the game winning field goal in the Super Bowl a couple of seasons back. There were assholes trying to say it wasn't an actual hold (the one dumbshit announcer griped about the penalty and was like "given the situation, can't you just not call it" but even he at least could admit it was penalty, half this board tried to claim it wasn't). They act like just the Chiefs get the benefit when there was a play earlier in that game where there were blatant penalties by multiple Eagles DBs and neither got called (and it was 3rd or maybe 4th down so Chiefs had to punt or turned the ball over), and both announcers noticed the penalties and remarked about them on that play. Of course these are the same fuckin idiots that bitched about the replacement refs saying they don't complain about the regular refs, and then went back to incessantly complaining about the regular refs immediately, because they just complain about the refs at all times.
For anyone interested, Freakonomics had a great episode on why RBs don't get paid more. Episode 620:
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-dont-running-backs-get-paid-anymore/
Kinda common sense, market wants a show, and passing gives them that aside from the random long run gains and scores. Interesting none the less.
Those guys are full of shit (like, they straight up lie about what studies they cite actually say cause I guess they know people won't actually bother to check them, or know if its something more nuanced or complex than what they say; hell they can't seem to be bothered to even look at the studies they cite half the time, in that first book there's multiple studies that they claim support their argument that don't and they're the ones citing those studies, its baffling) and use a TON of specious reasoning constantly. There's a "If Books Could Kill" episode about their book and how terrible their analysis was. Basically all of their takes are to cite some data then make some weird (because often it doesn't even make sense to come to such large sweeping conclusions from a small amount of data that often isn't even explicitly looking at what their argument then claims) arguments that they try to portray as objective fact, while they basically dismiss (if they even acknowledge or consider them) any and all other reasons that might explain it.