If the refs aren’t overwhelmingly biased against the Saints, please explain this:

UFCSaint said

I showed several numbers and graphs to a friend of mine. He agreed that it's obvious that we aren't officiated fairly. But then he said that Payton may want to lay off griping about the officials for a while. I said, that's just it.. he rarely complains about officiating although he has plenty of reason to. He probably complains less about officiating than Mora, Haslett, and Ditka did.

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Publicly, but do we know if he is picking up the phone to the league?

I would be torn as the coach between going to Riveron and Goodell and saying "look, I know what you are doing. Look at this data. It can't be explained by anything but bias but I can't prove it. But I KNOW what this is. So, please stand down."

But even then I think Goodell would interpret as a threat and then himself double down.

I don't know how to let them know we know without triggering an even worse screwing. And I'm not sure they even care that we know. Maybe it's the intent that Payton feel helpless before the onslaught...