Super Bowl champ issues blunt warning to NFL officials ahead of Rams-Bears playoff game

Marshall Faulk, a Super Bowl champion moving backmost who starred with the St. Louis Rams during his NFL career, had a blunt informing for officials up of his erstwhile team’s playoff matchup against the Chicago Bears connected Sunday.

Faulk told TMZ Sports successful an interrogation published Sunday that he’s pulling for Los Angeles successful the win, but loves the competitiveness of playoff shot overall.

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Tennessee Titans antiaircraft extremity Jevon Kearse (90) chases down St. Louis Rams backmost Marshall Faulk (28) during enactment astatine Adelpha Coliseum successful Nashville connected Oct. 31, 1999. (Freeman Ramsey/The Tennessean/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

However, helium said the referees request to fto the players play.

"Here’s what I anticipation for – I anticipation the referees enactment their a-- retired of the game," Faulk said. "We don’t request to spot the referees connected TV arsenic much. They’ve been excessively disposable successful these games. They’re throwing excessively galore flags.

"I cognize they privation to beryllium seen. But they conscionable request to enactment retired of the games and let shot to beryllium played connected the field."

Faulk’s comments deed the net a time aft contention erupted successful the Denver Broncos’ overtime Divisional Round triumph implicit the Buffalo Bills.

A cardinal interception telephone that went successful favour of the Broncos successful overtime sparked the consternation.

At first, it looked similar simultaneous possession, which would person led to the Bills keeping the ball. But arsenic Bills receiver Brandin Cooks went down to the crushed with the pigskin, the shot rolled into a presumption wherever Broncos antiaircraft backmost Ja'Quan McMillian was capable to snatch it distant for an interception arsenic Cooks laic connected his back.

Colorado Buffaloes moving backs manager Marshall Faulk earlier the crippled against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets  at Folsom Field connected Aug. 29, 2025. (Ron Chenoy/Imagn Images)

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The instant replay reappraisal showed Cooks was down connected the crushed with possession of the ball, which typically would extremity the play and grant the Bills a completion. But capable of the shot was already successful McMillian's arms by the clip Cooks deed the crushed that officials did not reverse the telephone aft looking it over.

Bills caput manager Sean McDermott wanted officials to instrumentality a agelong look astatine the play, truthful helium called a timeout successful bid to bash truthful — teams cannot situation successful overtime.

"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."

McDermott had much words for the Buffalo News from the squad plane.

Los Angeles Rams backmost Matthew Stafford (9) looks to walk successful the 3rd 4th successful an NFC Wild Card Round crippled astatine Bank of America Stadium connected Jan. 10, 2026.  (Bob Donnan/Imagn Images)

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The victor of Bears-Rams connected Sunday nighttime volition play the Seattle Seahawks successful the NFC Championship Game.

Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

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