Does Burrows make life difficult for the officials? Sure. That’s Auger’s motive, his reason for abusing his power. The Smithson tape is evidence against Auger, not against Burrows. Payback is okay as long as the referee doesn’t explicitly threaten payback before he does it? That’s nonsense. The only good defense of Auger involves defending the calls he made on Burrows. At best, both were extraordinarily bad calls and I don’t buy coincidence as the explanation.