Anthony Hargrove Video Is Key Evidence in Saints" Bounty Scandal The relevant video footage is short. It consists of a sentence of dialogue and no more than five seconds of action. Stadium noise and the barked orders of a coach add layers of potentially confusing sound. It is part of the N.F.L."s evidence in the Saints" bounty scandal, and a lawyer for the players union called it his best evidence. The league says that the clip shows Anthony Hargrove, then a defensive tackle for the New Orleans Saints and one of four players suspended in the case, saying, "Bobby, give me my money." The video was shot on the Saints" sideline during the N.F.C. championship game in 2010, moments after New Orleans players were erroneously informed that Minnesota's Brett Favre had been knocked out of the game. Hargrove's face is partially covered in the video, however, and it is not immediately clear if he is the one speaking. Richard Smith, the outside counsel for the players union in the Saints case, said it was "my best piece of evidence because it calls into question the thoroughness, the accuracy and veracity of the N.F.L."s investigation and their statements." Hargrove, who had previously submitted a signed admission of knowing about and participating in the Saints" bounty program, has denied he made the statement. Adolpho Birch, the N.F.L."s vice president for law and labor policy, recently told ESPN's "Outside the Lines," "I think in looking at it, it sounds like the same person; it looks like a continuation of the same sentence." Mary Jo White, the league's outside counsel, who presented the summary of the N.F.L."s evidence to the news media on June 18, said that it was Hargrove because his lips were moving. "It's just unfathomable to me that the N.F.L. would simply rely on their naked eye and their ears to determine if a player has said something," Smith said in a telephone interview Thursday. Smith hired a voice recognition expert to review and analyze the sentence. Smith said the expert had concluded that the harmonics of Hargrove's voice did not match the voice on the tape, that Hargrove's lips had not been visible and that the first word was not "Bobby" but instead the result of a player and coach talking at once. "No one can say beyond doubt that it's Anthony Hargrove speaking," Smith said. The league has maintained that the video corroborates other evidence that a bounty program existed that season, and that Hargrove knew about it, helping to prove he had lied during the league's initial investigation in 2010. The N.F.L. also cited an anonymous firsthand account of a meeting in which Hargrove told the assistant coach Joe Vitt, currently the interim head coach, that he would lie to investigators. That obstruction accusation led to Hargrove's eight-game suspension. To the league, the video was part of the total evidence against Hargrove. Smith hopes to cast doubt on the video and open up the other evidence to questions. New Orleans linebacker Jonathan Vilma is suspended for next season, the Saints" Will Smith is suspended for four games, and Scott Fujita, a former Saint now with Cleveland, drew a three-game suspension. All are appealing. "Anything that we have tested, been able to test, like the videotape, is crumbling," Smith said. Smith said that he had asked the league to allow him to question Coach Sean Payton and the former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, whose statements have helped support the N.F.L."s case, but that he was denied. Smith also said he had requested all of the league's thousands of pages of evidence and was given 200, and had asked to review the statements of everyone interviewed, anonymous or not, and was denied. Smith indicated that once Commissioner Roger Goodell announced his decisions on the appeals of the players" suspensions, the union would file lawsuits to try to bring the case before a third-party arbitrator and force the league to reveal more evidence and allow the union's side to question sources. Until then, the N.F.L. will stand by the evidence, the union will ask to see more, and both sides will surely rewind the tape again and again. "We believe it is him," Birch said of Hargrove. He added, "The commissioner has to look at the record he has, and the record that we have we feel very comfortable with."