“Trying to get the Mahomes whistle?” Joe Burrow breaks his social media absence by posting a supportive tweet for NFL officials

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow doesn’t tweet much. Six tweets in 2022. Only one in 2023: “Show me the aliens!!” Then five in 2024. One in 2025: a repost about Netflix series Quarterback S2. Now he’s back on X in 2026, voicing his opinion for NFL officials. He says the calls they made followed the NFL rule book. Anyone who says otherwise surprises him.On January 19, the 29-year-old signal caller tweeted in support of NFL referees. He wrote, “The amount of ppl that don’t understand what a catch is in the rule book flabbergasts me. And it’s not the officials. The two plays yesterday were not difficult calls, and they got them both right.”Quarterback going against quarterback is a first we’ve heard. Buffalo Bills signal-caller Josh Allen’s interception should have been ruled a catch. Allen threw a deep pass to wide receiver Brandin Cooks, but Denver Broncos cornerback Ja’Quan McMillian wrestled the ball out of Cooks’ hands.NFL officials called it an interception and said McMillian already possessed the ball while Cooks was on the ground. The game was getting tougher for both the Broncos and the Bills. The very next moment, Denver scored a game-winning field goal and it broke Allen’s dream of a Super Bowl.The next day, same play happened in the Chicago Bears vs. Los Angeles Rams game. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford threw a pass to wide receiver Davante Adams but Bears defensive back Tyrique Stevenson wrestled the ball out of Adams’ hands. NFL officials called it a catch, not an interception, just the exact reverse of what they did in the Bills vs. Broncos game.These two contradictory stories, though not widely accepted by cybercitizens, were quickly supported by the two-time Pro Bowler, Joe Burrow. He spoke in favor of the officials. In his view, the call that ruled a catch an interception was right, and the call that ruled an interception a catch was also right.Watching the supposed fair display of support from Burrow for referees, NFL aggregator Dov Kleiman quickly questioned him: “Trying to get the Mahomes whistle?”Kleiman is referring to Kansas City Chiefs ace signal-caller Patrick Mahomes, who is reportedly favored by the referees. A user immediately replied to Kleiman, saying, “He [Joe Burrow] dont cry to the refs everytime he gets touched.”To commemorate Kleiman’s comment, an X account named “greg” shared Burrow’s gridiron look and asked X’s artificial intelligence Grok to “put him [Joe Burrow] in the uniform of the team he’ll be playing for next season.”Burrow’s Bengals gear quickly transformed into Mahomes’ Chiefs gear!