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Yes, you do have to do that if you want to have any credibility. You need evidence and the conclusions you draw from what you see on the field aren't any kind of evidence.
Until you have something more to offer, you're just another conspiracy theorist, pro football's equivalent of a Flat Earther.
Having real evidence is the difference between being laughed at and being taken seriously.
So, when there is a pattern of calls going for a certain team, I have to just ignore that and not see that as evidence?
Or, when I see what happened in the Jesse James game, or to the Saints a year later, I have to ignore that? I don't think so.