So honestly how will you feel if Payton eventually ends up coaching the Cowboys?

Booker said
This right here. Anyone expecting a kings ransom will be disappointed. If he had gone straight to another team, yes, they could have demanded a few picks, like the Jets got for Belichek or the Raiders got for Gruden.

But after he sits out a year -- during which time the Saints will have hired a new coach -- they won't be able to do that. We'll be lucky to get as much as a third round pick, if that.

TBF the Cards ownership are the same people that have unjustly claimed the 1925 NFL championship over the Pottsville Maroons despite the latter's victory over the Cards in what was billed as the "championship game." I worry that Gayle Benson and Mickey Loomis might not have the same desire to wring every advantage out of the situation that the Bidwills do.