I think it's a combination of his loyalty to Jason and Jerry calling around and finding out his HCing job doesn't have quite the demand he thinks it does. No established coach will ever go there as long as Jerry is the GM and shadow-coach.
Exactly. There are some strong rumors that the Cowboys front office went hard after Payton before his last contract extension. Of course the Joneses are denying that they were spurned by a coach they so coveted. Payton apparently used the Cowboys interest to leverage a little more from the Saints Front Office. Cowboys fans are deluded in believing that their Head Coach position is one of the most (most believe it’s THE most) desirable of all 32 teams. Right now the Cowboys job would probably rate somewhere in the high 20’s (bolstered by the team‘s current roster and the high profile nature of the job). If not for those two factors it would be in 30’s.