Bengals' Joe Burrow weighs in on controversial NFL playoffs moments: 'It's not the officials'

Cincinnati Bengals prima backmost Joe Burrow mightiness not beryllium successful the playoffs, but he’s chiming successful connected immoderate of the arguable plays successful the postseason.

The catch-versus-no-catch statement involving Buffalo Bills wide receiver Brandin Cooks is inactive being talked astir aft the team’s Divisional Round nonaccomplishment to the Denver Broncos connected Saturday night.

While galore person fixed their instrumentality connected the arguable play, the 2 remaining Divisional Round games connected Sunday besides had immoderate debatable calls connected catches.

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Ja'quan McMillian of the Denver Broncos intercepts a walk intended for Brandin Cooks of the Buffalo Bills during overtime successful the AFC Divisional Playoff crippled astatine Empower Field At Mile High connected Jan. 17, 2026 successful Denver, Colorado. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

Burrow appeared to beryllium connected the broadside of the officials successful each cases.

"The magnitude of ppl that don’t recognize what a drawback is successful the regularisation publication flabbergasts me. And it’s not the officials," Burrow wrote connected X. "The 2 plays yesterday were not hard calls, and they got them some right."

The play involving Cooks continues to beryllium a symptom constituent for shot fans, fto unsocial the metropolis of Buffalo. If ruled a catch, Matt Prater mightiness person walked it disconnected with a tract goal, and the Bills would beryllium connected to New England.

Instead, the play was ruled an interception by the Broncos, who yet won the crippled and moved connected to the AFC Championship Game.

As for the 2 plays Burrow references successful his tweet, it’s chartless precisely what he’s talking about, but determination was 1 play from each crippled connected Sunday wherever statement ensued. 

First, Houston Texans wide receiver Xavier Hutchinson fumbled, but the play was considered a drawback aft officials reviewed. Then, Los Angeles Rams prima Davante Adams had a akin concern hap erstwhile his genu deed the turf, but helium fumbled. 

In some cases, the discourtesy maintained power of the ball, though determination were immoderate who believed the Cooks play should've seen the aforesaid result.

NFL rules expert Walt Anderson weighed successful connected the interception for the Broncos, saying that Jaquan McMillan did so propulsion the shot distant from Cooks, who helium believes ne'er had implicit power of it.

"Replay has each of these angles to instrumentality a look and spot ‘was the ruling connected the tract wrong, oregon was the ruling connected the tract correct?’" Anderson said connected NFL Network. "If you tin corroborate that the ruling connected the tract is correct, they truly privation to determination the crippled along, and they don’t privation to person unnecessary stoppages."

Sean McDermott, who has since been fired from his relation arsenic Bills caput coach, was irate implicit the process of however the telephone was confirmed. He wanted officials to instrumentality a agelong look astatine the play, starring to his timeout call.

Joe Burrow (9) of the Cincinnati Bengals plays against the Cleveland Browns astatine Huntington Bank Field connected Sept. 7, 2025 successful Cleveland, Ohio. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

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"It would look logical to me… that the caput authoritative would locomotion implicit and privation to spell and instrumentality a look astatine it, conscionable to marque definite that everybody from present who is successful the stadium to determination are connected the aforesaid page. That’s excessively large of a play, successful my estimation, and a play that decided the crippled perchance arsenic well, to not adjacent dilatory it down," McDermott said.

"It’s hard for maine to recognize wherefore it was ruled the mode it was ruled. If it is ruled that way, past wherefore wasn’t it slowed down conscionable to marque definite that we person this right? That would person made a batch of consciousness to me, to marque definite that we person this happening right. Because that’s a pivotal play successful the game. We person the shot astatine the 20, possibly kicking a game-winning tract extremity close there. So I’ll conscionable permission it astatine that."

Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

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