Which NFL Ref Throws The Most Flags On The Buffalo Bills?

It feels like every time there's a flag in the NFL, it's on your team. Stats will actually tell you how often our team gets flagged by the refs though, and now we can even tell which NFL officiating crew does it the most.

Can we all agree that NFL officials are a necessary evil? There's nothing that will kill the momentum of a game like a field full of laundry that the refs dropped there. It's really felt like they've gotten more and more involved in the game lately. Back in the day, it was like it was hard to get a ref to throw a flag on anything, but now, it's like every other play there's an infraction.

It's pretty bad when a flag gets thrown on the other team, and even the fans from the team that's benefiting from the flag can't understand where they were coming from.

Which NFL Ref Throws The Most Flags?

The team at InGame have analyzed data from the beginning of the 2014 season until the end of the 2024 season to discover which referees have thrown the most flags in recent times. For the most part, it comes down to two crews. The crews of Clete Blakeman and Carl Cheffers seem to be the most flag-happy in the NFL. In the past ten years, Cheffers' crew threw 2401 flags. Blakeman's crew was second with 2286.

How many of those flags were thrown at the Buffalo Bills?

When you just look at the flags thrown on the Buffalo Bills, those same two crews are once again at the top of the list with Blakeman at 88 and Cheffers at 86. The Bills were the third most-penalized team in the league.

That could mean that they are the dirtiest, or it could mean that they just are the most scrutinized.

The crazy thing, is that those numbers only reflect the number of accepted flags over that decade. So if a flag was thrown, but the penalty was declined, it didn't get included in the data.