This Referee Scandal Will Break the NFL
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2024
- No hyperbole. No exaggeration. I have 42 minutes of solid, hard, concrete proof that the NFL not only allowed a Saints fan to officiate games during the 2023 NFL season, but even allowed him to officiate a Saints game. The NFL forgot to conduct a background check (or conducted the laziest one possible), and the evidence is overwhelming that the integrity of the game could be compromised as a result
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You have to presume that someone who works in the NFL as an official was a football fan their whole life. It's also an easy assumption that the person had a favorite team or two before they made it to the NFL. You'd think the NFL would account for this, and never let a person who is a fan of a team officiate that team's games.
But the NFL is a clown show.
We know a saints fan was not officiating near the end zone in the nfc championship game against the rams
Probably a Rams fan
Yeah, four Los Angeles-area residents officiated that game
Poetic justice for the Saints bounty-gate game in the 2009 NFC title game.
This is the type of hard-hitting investigation which is the reason I watch JG9. Well done!
This needs to be addressed properly.
Based on precedent, it absolutely will not be - at least as far as we know.
Wake up NFL!! How can you have referees who have possible family members who occasionally wear an NFL team golf polo!? How dare you put referees on the field when they have Facebook friends who posted memes 10 years ago!!?
At this point there’s an issue as to who paid for the season tickets. Imagine a situation where it’s found out that the Saints hooked up a ref with nice season tickets.
The Bible did not go through the genealogy of Abraham as much as you went through the genealogy of the Ledet family.
I commend you for your work and it is absolutely valid but over 20min of Facebook nearly melted my brain! aaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
22:29 The dog's identity should have been protected like the minors
Just gonna download this in case the feds take it down lolol. Great vid
you crazy dude lol
36:27 "I'm not accusing Jason Ledet of anything
00:00-36:26 and 36:30-42:49Accuses Jason Ledet of everything
It's possible Jason got his Saints tickets from one of his family members, but didn't really care for them and that's why he gave them away on Facebook. Still probably a good idea for the NFL to not have him officiate a Saints game. Perhaps the schedule that week was such that somebody on some crew would have to end up working one of their team's games, as you'd have to expect people working in football all have had favorite teams prior to getting their current jobs.
I know. He was definitely reaching. I came out more convinced the ref did nothing wrong.
I reffed a year of high school football. I went to a home game of my high school alma mater's that year, intending to watch as a fan. One of the officiating bosses asked me if I'd work the game. I said no.
I've covered teams I was a fan of before, but I always made it a point to be objective. If I were an NFL official reffing a game my team was playing, I'd probably be harder on them than I would another team.
But why even put yourself in that position in the first place?
Wonder if the Chiefs got Taylor Swift to promise the refs' daughters tickets to her concerts 😂
And people still say the replacements were worse
One of the replacement refs was a Saints fan.
@dionr1168 right, and so was one of the regular, a whole 11 years later. This is literally what this video is about. So your point
YOu'd be the first ref to EVER call the game unfairly in favor of the Jags
There are some real football officiating issues too-to-bottom. In Texas, we're already having issues covering HS games with full crews. (Take it from someone who did it for a few yrs, it's bc the cost-benefit is just not worth it and the PITA-to-enjoyment ratio sucks, too. younger folks aren't signing up as they've got way more options than older folks did at their age. It's a tough, demanding, stressful, low paying gig that's usually done for the love of the game - or if the person is a masochist - ie, enjoys wearing a polyester outfit in 120 degree on-field temps while 20 something jr high and HS coaches go Woody Hayes on you.)
That may sound like it doesn't have anything to do with the NFL, but it does IMO. Fewer officials to choose from as the pool gets smaller and also ppl who'd have done it don't bc they now have better things to do.
These officials need to be compensated better as well. The NFL is made up of all multi billion dollar franchises with enormous TV deals and they can't pay their officials even 1/10 of the league minimum for a player? I think the median is $90k. IMO that's a joke for what is asked of them and the pressure put on them.
I feel that officiating has noticeably declined in the last 4 yrs across HS, CFB and NFL. It would be nice to see some major changes top to bottom.
We all know the Saints would never cheat. Their track record proves how full of integrity they are as a franchise.
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There was way too much time spent going through facebokk posts imo
Another Saints ref? 🤦♂️
That was a funny Doofenschmirtz reference at the end. 😅
P&F's demonstrably unfunny unfortunately.
@@matthewdaley746 WRONG!!!
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This just seems like a reach. I remember watching that game it was very physical and alot of missed calls.
Fascinating investigative journalism, JG9. Congrats on getting yourself dis-invited from any future NFL Drafts, though.
Disclaimer. I am a Saints fan also. That stated, I absolutely agree with the conflict of interest. That is egregious. But as a mathematician, I do not agree with the statistics presented as trying to support the argument. It would be better to actually see all of the penalties in that game and who threw each flag. Did this ref throw more flags than usual? Was he consistent in what sort of calls he made throughout the year? Regardless, penalty statistics are very subjective. For example, a long bomb pass interference call can single-handedly account for most of the penalized yards and would potentially represent a statistical outlier. At the least, it would skew the results. Another example is that certain games will be more physical, particularly for intradivision rivals. As such, more penalties are likely.
Nice video,jg9! That issue needs to be addressed! 😮😮😮😮😮
You missed your calling bud. You are an in-depth investigative reporter. I'm betting Peter King or some other national reporter picks this up. I'm a Bucs fan so I'm biased, but it seems to me, at the very least the NFL should offer you a job vetting these referees. Keep it up!
Outstanding content! That degree is at work man!
I feel like you went a little too deep on the Ledet family lineage. Did this video really need to be 45 minutes of a bunch of random people being Saints fans.
Dude 😂
That’s what you get for watching a video made by someone who graduated from law school.
Someone is going to lock down their profile
Not defending him at all here, but Ledet (pronounced luh-day) is a decently common last name in Louisiana. As a Saints fan, this situation is absolutely crazy
Notice how he never tried to pronounce Thibodeaux? 😂
I don’t think every Ledet he mentioned was related him, and I know some are. I understand why he assumed all were though.
I work with one. It's a commonish last name there
What I've definitely learned here is to definitely lock the sh it out of my social media, and convince my family to do the same...
At least set many posts to friends only
22:39 Even the dog!!! 😂
Another terrific job of peeling the onion layer by layer. I love these types of stories. Hope this won’t have to go in the unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian queue.
Oh boy! JG IS AT IT AGAIN!! GET THE FRANK INVOLVED!!!!
You are dedicated to your job, and I love it.
Such a lawyer video.
It's not only about teams you actively root for. It's also about teams you actively root against. I'm an Eagles fan. Obviously you wouldn't want me reffing Eagles vs. anybody. But what about Cowboys vs. Giants?
Also if they know playoff implications (if eagles win/tie, packers get into the playoffs; etc.) they can call a completely different game that affects the team they like/dislike. It goes even deeper if you think about. Refs need to start getting interviewed just like players. Im sure those videos would get more views than the player interviews
@@Beezle66So who are the officials, then? Robots? It's hard to see someone getting a job in the league without being a fan of the sport and equally hard to see a fan of the sport not having a preferred team.
@@emeraldaly7646 it is hard but it's possible. And also refs need to be interviewed after games so we can hear why some of the blatant missed/BS flags were thrown and let stand. That'll start weeding out the bad refs, but we know the NFL would never do that
Stay away from windows in tall buildings my man
This is the in depth coverage I come here for
42min. of "get to the point" ... Dude, I'm drained!
Yeah that was hard, i was trying to be fair to hear his arguments and frankly I'm annoyed because he didn't prove anything. Just assumed the guy is guilty first and then tried to explain why he is.
I love the Phineas and Ferb reference at the end
Obscenely overrated cartoon, unequivocally.
I gave 1/4 of the way into your video. 10 minutes and you still are trying to prove that the guy is the guy. Now I hope the NFL keeps him and schedules him to ref EVERY Saints game.
Yeah it was like watching paint dry. I was able to stick through it for the most part, but I started skipping when he was showing grandpas and other alleged family members, which to me is irrelevant if they are fans, he definitely was reaching trying to tarnish this man's reputation with literally no evidence of him doing anything wrong.
This means absolutely nothing. Every ref is going to be a fan of some team. They are human beings. Sometimes, mistakes are made. They are watching everything in real time. They don't have the benefit of slow motion like you do. Until penalties are challengeable, the problem won't go away.
I wonder what mike florio would think about this?
Matchfixing 101... NFL edition...
Two things. I wonder if there was a different game Ledet officiated that didn't involve the Saints, but perhaps one of their division rivals and he made bad calls to hurt them, therefore helping NO in the process.
Second, if the NFL doesn't conduct anything, what about reaching out to Ledet himself and asking if he's a Saints fan and if the league is aware.
He worked a Falcons game the week after this. That day, the Falcons had 30 more penalty yards than the Texans did and were called for two more penalties. The Falcons were called at one point for defensive holding (the Texans were not)
@@OfficialJaguarGator9 The Texans were probably more disciplined over the season, and what calls did he make specifically?
Well, we can at least safely assume the Cowboys fans among the ref ranks are kept far, far away from Cowboys games.
So your evidence is one call, and the fact that a guy from Louisiana is related to Saints fans?
Considering that Football Zebras' (as the name implies, a blog following NFL officiating)reported a few months back that the NFL hired a new VP of Replay, who not only had ties to very high (as in access to the Mara's high) to the Giants, but the NFL tried to hide the fact they hired the guy, makes me think that there's something rotten going on with the NFL Officiating/Competition hiring.
Love that account. Been following them for years
If the NFL sees this, they better launch an investigation. I’m an LA sports fan and if I were an official, I would request to not do any games involving the Rams, Chargers, Lakers, Clippers, Dodgers, or Angels
The NFL does not care. Having part time officials opens all kinds of conflicts of interest. This means they have a full time job doing something else, and since the owners are billionaires, the officials are bound to end up in business with them at some point.
11 penalties against the Bucs, 7 against the Saints. Big whoop. Happens every week. One team usually has more than the other team. This is a nothingburger. All this video showed was a bunch of people are Saints fans.
(Posted before your best evidence lol) I'm halfway through and he surely doesn't need to be doing any Saints games!!! Great work and very impressive. Even if he isn't a fan, (He must be, im JS) he wouldn't want to let down his entire family if he had a chance to change the outcome at the end of a game.
Funny because I thought the exact opposite.
I can't wrap my head around this part. A family that was born and raised in New Orleans, all rooting for the football team from New Orleans. How weird?. 😁
Listen, I appreciate your hard work on this and I respect your opinion. Here's the "but." It would be impossible to find an official that didn't grow up somewhere rooting for an NFL team. Bias is everywhere and in everything. Judges, Justices, umpires, referees, broadcasters, color commentary, and other positions that depend on neutrality, ALL have a bias one way or another. Most are good at masking it or turning it off, but being "bias" is a natural occurrence. Criticizing this one dude for liking football and being a fan of his hometown team, is crazy to me. Dragging his family out like this, is kinda ridiculous. So, you're saying once a guy (or woman) is named an official in the NFL, his family better not like football or have a favorite hometown team and his friends and family need to change their lives completely?... This is a hit piece. If anything, blame the NFL for letting him do a Saints game, but that's about it. The numbers are questionable overall, but again, bias is always a factor in some form. That one call you showed was ticky tack, at most. And I don't like refs and hate the saints. Just saying.
Saints got an inside man yet still suck 😂
😠
Your evidence is circumstantial at best outside of looking at one specific bad call that -- from the line judge's position -- had a visible hold. I'm a fan of neither team nor even the NFC, but you look at the numbers and try to find a connection without really showing anything specific or damning. How about you point to the specific number of penalties Ladet called personally? That would be 100% more relevant than the penalty yards especially when your own data shows the essentially the same penalty situation for the Bucs 2 weeks later. He may have been a fan of the team but you do not at all show that he called the game in favor of the Saints.
You know that NFL referees been watching football since they were kids . You dont think they all have favorite NFL teams ? This story is nonsense
The refs could get on tv and tell everyone they rig games and the suckers would still pay to watch that garbage.
There has been a referee crisis for years. There are many times recently and in the past that this that pro spots are no different than the WWE. I mean I’m talking about pre Super Bowl days the Packers missing a FG and it counted and they won a Championship. It’s there league so they can manipulate the outcome of the game with the refs. Keep up with the great content as always.
Yep, there's definitely a bias for sure at times. We've seen star QBs being treated with kid gloves (Josh Allen gets some real nice calls at times) and Tom Brady was basically treated like royalty. I've seen officials basically talking to him and joking on the field and there's one infamous picture of an official basically celebrating after a win with Brady and his team on the field!
Site totally mentions error-nasty.
@SPTO 1.Josh Allen's their friend, yet, he still can't beat Pat Mahomes.
2.Tom Brady still lost three SBs, and, the incident you mentioned, occurred, before SB 52.
That field goal was good.
@@matthewdaley746 1. Maybe that's because Mahomes is their bigger friend.
2. The SB incident was misremembered but the celebration stuff was during/after a game against the Jas in 2018.
> suspicion of untoward behavior in favor of the saints = massive expose from jaguargator threatening to tear the entire system down
> Goodell hamfists the rams into a Super Bowl that no one wanted to see after the 2018 season = not a peep
I literally did not have a channel back then, and I have repeatedly said that that call was one of the worst missed calls in NFL history
@@OfficialJaguarGator9 well fair enough, but I feel like New Orleans gets shit on plenty while big market teams like L.A. get rewarded year in, year out. Frustrating
@@OfficialJaguarGator9 Is the ref that messed up still officiating? A deep dive into him might be harder but it would be good
@@someperson3883 he officiated the most recent Super Bowl.
@@tallbianca I know that, but what about the field judge that lost his penalty flag
First??? Yo PLEASE solve the referee crisis man I'm here for it!!!
If the Tuck Rule game, 2006 Super Bowl, 2019 NFC Championship Game and this year's Super Bowl didn't this won't either.
You can throw the Bengals/Rams SB on that list too. Questionable DPI call that would have been 4th down... AND On a play where 4 out of the 5 Rams OL had a false start (there is video of this and that is not a subjective call). Next play kupp catches a TD. Next/final series of the game, Aaron Donald was offsides on the last play where he sacked Burrow to end the game.
It would break the NFL into so many pieces a Boy Scout couldn’t put it together
Yeah he probably shouldn't ref Saints games. If they fire him though, it's just NFL trying to distract from the fact DraftKings + sports betting syndicates have rigged 100% of all game outcomes since 2019.
The NFL clearly erred in letting Ledet (the "et" is pronounced like a long "a") officiate a Saints game. That's just a failure of due diligence. I think your case that Ledet had a significant bias in the game that affected the game play is pretty weak. You found one play where a field judge could see the defender's swiping motion at a player's jersey who ends up having his route end up just short of where the ball is thrown. A bad call, but in the replay seen from Ledet's vantage point, you can understand how a field judge could get it wrong. Could Ledet's bias have impacted his call (consciously or unconsciously)? Yes, and that's why he shouldn't have been reffing that game in the first place. He also holds some responsibility if he didn't alert the NFL of the obvious appearance of a conflict of interest with his assignment for that game, even if he intended to call the game as fairly as he could. But ultimately, this is a league screwup and another example of how the NFL has failed to invest sufficient resources in refereeing when they absolutely can afford to. I can see from the comments that already fans are jumping to conspiracies that aren't supported by the evidence presented, but the NFL has nobody to blame but themselves for letting things get to this point.
The refs that called the lions / rams game grew up in Washington and every game the rams are in that they call they lost,
Yet the Saints didn’t even win the game that this man was officiating.
The authors of "Scorecasting" noticed that the visiting team typically gets more penalties than the home team in every sport, and they concluded that there was an officiating bias in favour of the home team. You should research this crew's penalty calls in all the games they called and how many penalties they called against home and visiting teams, rather than assuming that they would throw the same number of flags against each team.
96 flags against the road team, 80 flags against the home team. If we take this game out, 85 against the road team and 73 against the home
@@OfficialJaguarGator9 Thanks.
The NFL can look at soccer as to what can happen when biased referees (or at least referees with an agenda) are allowed to referee games unchecked. There have been so many referee scandals in soccer over the years that if JG9 had a soccer channel, over half the videos would likely be on referee scandals. And it isn't just with ordinary games but also at the highest levels of the game such as the Calciopoli scandal of 2006 that resulted in Juventus being stripped of the Serie A title & being relegated after it was found that Juventus paid referees to make favorable calls & even went as far to making sure that referees who were fans of the club were given priority when it came to who would referee their games. There were other teams in Serie A like Milan & Lazio that were accused of doing this in the Calciopoli scandal but Juventus were by far the worst offenders. Even with the introduction of VAR in recent years in soccer (which FIFA claims will eliminate referee mistakes & bias), I am not sure that will totally get rid of the biased referees problem as the referees in the VAR room could be biased as well.
Yeah, no, Manchester City got nailed, but, a biased appellate decision overturned the penalties, (while, upholding, a, Finding Of Fact), basically, declaring, "we'll ruin you if you do this again," when what they, meant, was, "we're not making an example out of a club with great pedigree," and, they rode their, wrist-slapping, to multiple Championships in the years, since, they're as, gutless/corrupt, Across, The, Pond, as we are, money talks, the rest walks, simple as that.
NFL officiating has never recovered from Jerry Seeman retiring.
He never blinked.
I dont want anything to do with anything Ledet for at least a month
BUCS PENALTY FLAGS IN THIS GAME:::: Flag 1: Roughing the passer (+15/15) - Flag 2: False start (+5/20) - Flag 3: Intentional grounding (+12/32) - Flag 4: Holding (+10/42) [note: the season average for Bucs' penalty yards, which could not have been known in early October, has been exceeded; it is still the first quarter] - Flag 5: Neutral zone infraction (+5/47) Flag 6: Holding (+10/57) - Flag 7: Facemask (+15/72) - Flag 8: Delay of game, intentional (+4/76) - Flag 9: Ineligible player downfield (+5/81) - Flag 10: False start (+5/86) - Flag 11: Defensive holding (+10/91). The Bucs would have had to play a completely clean game after the first quarter of their fourth game to meet their averages for all games played from September-January. Maybe after the Bucs' very sloppy first quarter, they should have not committed a facemask, not intentionally taken a delay of game, not lined up improperly, not held, not false started....................
I watched the whole video, and like almost all the stuff you put out, but I don’t think familial ties and tickets to one Saints game is anything beyond circumstantial evidence at most. I went to Dolphins/Patriots and Texans/Colts and am a Bills fan, so if any conclusions were drawn from me going to those games they would’ve probably been wrong. Also if you grow up anywhere near a pro team most of your friends and local family would probably be fans of that team too, doesn’t guarantee an individual is.
YIKES! I can understand if it was a scrimmage where the teams were using local zebras and both teams knew and understood... nothing's really on the line and it gives the local officials a chance to officiate a NFL scrimmage. At least something that they can sharpen their skills and bring them back to their High School/College level as a great experience. Just being able to officiate a simulated game on the highest level... but this. UGH!
All I got from this video, Which is well done by the way, Is that the NFL Let a fan of a team referee their game. Even with all the stats, Which I don't think whereas convincing as made out to be, There was one questionable call. You would think there would be more than one call that could be considered bad if the ref was trying to throw a game. It's not a good look for sure but I just didn't walk away from this video Thinking the man did anything nefarious. It's easy to chalk up one bad call As a judgment call. I just don't think there's enough there that was actually done wrong, Besides, of course, letting A fan of a team, referee, a game of that team. That shouldn't happen. But that's the worst thing that happened in this video that I saw
He doesn't even demonstrate any shoulda-been calls, missed by the side judge, that would otherwise have helped the Saints/set the Bucs back. His "strong evidence" comes from a drive that had moved in to field goal range and ended with a field goal.
This is interesting. You'd have to figure someone who gets a job in the league is a fan of the sport, and most often a fan of the sport will be a fan of a certain team. If there were gushing posts from Jason himself in the present (or even recent past) I'd definitely agree there was something here. But can professional people not be expected to put their personal favoritism aside? Do we default to thinking that because he had Saints tickets to give away eight years ago that he's still partisan toward them while doing his job? (Maybe the answer is yes, I don't know)
The nfl will probably respond with we realized this and “we dealt with the problem internally, quickly and quietly to not raise any suspicion and effect the viewer experience”
His name is Ledet from Thibodeaux 😂 geez. Sarah Thomas Pass Christian native who's a NFL official shes an actual Saints fans. Dude thanks for a 😂
Can you please check into the refs who clearly favor LSU womens basketball??! Its disgraceful!
If I got to be a ref, the Cowboys would never win a game I was there for.
If I had a nickel for every time someone graduated from Nicholls State, and had a conflict of interest as a referee with the New Orleans Saints, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that I would have two nickels.
Overdone reference, nasty animation.
The NFL is nothing more than distraction, WWE ladies and gent's no difference at all 😢 , I have followed this game for over 40 year's and I was totally fooled
You know why the world found out wrestling was scripted(fake) cuz it's impossible to keep it a secret but you're telling me 50 plus players on every team for 100 plus years have all kept the secret and followed the script... cmon mannnnn 😂😂
I don't think it's down to the players as such, more ignored/missed /weird calls , ball spotting, but from time to time players do some ridiculous tackle misses etc. Before you jump down my neck do some research yourself it's clear.👍
@@Bigmart56 haha ok buddy 👍
On TH-cam CONTROVERSIAL Hassan Reddick No-Call Horse Collar on Josh Allen. Hochuli and his team 'missed' two calls that would have allowed the Bills to win over the Eagles. It doesn't matter how good your team is if the opposing team has the Refs on their side. (PS: Look into Hochuli's history of favoring the Eagles in other NFL games, if you're looking for another referee scandal.)
That call was definitely a saints fan call. It was a critical time in the game, and he was looking for anything.
Major sports leagues have become very lax with auditing referees in recent years. It wouldn't surprise me if the NBA, MLB, Fifa, and others have cases like this that are going under the radar.
Yeah but MLB umps barely get involved though it's usually strike calls that don't look like strikes they get wrong.
Excellent investigative work. Now the question becomes: Will the NFL have the guts to act on this information?
I wouldn't consider finding a target and then working backwards to prove they are guilty as good investigate work. Even in his video he says he's not accusing Ledet(which is not true)
Investigations are often conducted both inductively as well as deductively. Granted, much of what is presented is circumstantial. Yet, the major point is that there does exist in this instance, an appearance of impropriety.. which should be addressed by the league
@@ProfessorGamez He's literally doing the "show me the man, I'll show you the crime" ideology from the soviet union. He found the guy and then investigated him. One questionable call(which I had no issue with and I'm a Panthers fan) is enough to accuse the guy of cheating
@@jvanek8512As I said, Investigative techniques and methods are varied...and while circumstantial evidence is not the best type of evidence (which is what we have here), my main point remains the appearance of impropriety...for an entity as large as the NFL, that's a potential problem. So, while the evidence presented here would not be enough to convict were this a criminal case, there is enough probable cause to look into the matter further
I wonder if Brad Allen is a Cowboys fan.
We need more views on this!!
wow thats actually so crazy, hard to see him ref in the nfl after all this comes out eh.
This is unacceptable. Even if it was just a one-time error, for something like this to be possible and slip through the cracks like this is a huge issue. There are agreements in place between the league, the teams, the refs, and players union regarding impartiality from the officiating. Tampa Bay could pursue legal recourse. I doubt they will, but if they had lost, they would have been out of the playoffs. Not getting to host a playoff game would have meant they suffered considerable financial damages as the result of this.
Tampa Bay, only hosted Playoff Games by virtue of their pathetic division, after SB 55, they would make three consecutive Playoff appearances, in which they proved that they were a quality opponent away from being done.
They didn’t in 2018. They won’t get sued
@@someperson3883Suit's thrown out, unquestionably.
@@matthewdaley746 yeah. Same thing would happen with these
@someperson3883 Really absolutely insanely irrelevant.
The Bucs had 11 penalties and 91 yards four weeks later. Your graph shows it
Yeah I noticed how he conveniently ignored that. Hurts the narrative.
settle for 1 nichols: Barbara Nicholes
You mean, "I hope this is actually true so it will get me some attention, and then it will turn the NFL upside down".
This is really bad. The NFL is supposed to be very rigorous about these things maybe not fully with the competency of the officials but at least in regards to their background. You CAN'T have a guy who is such a Saints homer doing the game. BTW his relatives have to be the most diehard fans of a single team i've ever seen. I don't have a large family but we don't all cheer for the same team and are super crazy about em the way the Ledets are with the Saints.
Your legal background did you well here as you were extremely thorough about this, maybe TOO thorough but for the kind of thing you're alleging it's good to be this granular. I'm not totally sure what the NFL should do but at the very least he shouldn't work any future Saints games. Considering he doesn't seem to be all that great of an official I could see the league quietly sweeping this under the table and giving him his walking papers.
31:20 (ish) Can you really call it an outlier when your charting clearly shows another game with very similar numbers and yards? Unless that was the same crew and they're both high data-points and they are outliers from the same cause there's evidence there that it's just an extreme case rather than something atypical. It'd be interesting to see the same graphs for Tampa to see if the penalty count is high for them too, maybe it's just a particularly strict crew in general (edit 33:50 ok, there's the strictness question answered, that does add to the suspicion). 38:40 Oh yes, and that call is way more sus than the graphs were!
Obviously I'm with you that NFL Officials club allegiances should be disclosed and their game allocations monitored to avoid conflicts of interest, but from the graphs here there is less suspicion on this game than the one last season where one team picked up 11 penalties to the other team's 0 to my mind (though I forget the teams involved :-/).
While I agree with the point of this post, I seriously think you made the point after the 20th blatant example 😅
Ah no. NFL is a charity organization and provider of tv entertainment. It is not a sports league for competition
was he an official in the 2018 week 16 game steelers @ saints a game that impacted the season negatively for my pittsburgh steelers?
Who even cares, the Bucs won this game easily and in your own data you can see that Ledet’s crew called games with a similarly high frequency of penalties. This isn’t even an outlier or egregious or anything lol
Seriously. The hype and buildup surrounding this video were totally unwarranted
I love your videos and I get your point about the saints fan refereeing a saints game, but you’re sharing people’s facebook posts and that just don’t feel right
Mark Zuckerberg, somehow, having more money than, God, at his age isn't right, but, you can be fairly certain he's got absolutely zero real friends, unequivocally.
These posts are open to the general public. Anyone who has facebook can see them
@jordanzainer8217 Money corrupts, insanely incorrigible.
@@jordanzainer8217 I understand sharing them on FACEBOOK. But to have them on a TH-cam video like this just feels wierd
@@matthewdaley746 I guess 🤷♂️