I believe he wanted to rebuild Winston, I also believe it took a lot of work last year to change the way he’s played his whole career. I believe he looked at that and alot of other things and said it was too much and he needed a break.
You can’t tell me with a straight face if we had Tom Brady or some other Elite QB come in here, they Payton would have stepped away from the team.
And yes I believe it took probably everything Payton had to hey Winston to play a certain way to be successful and his one season of doing so under Payton is the outlier to the e rest of the way he’s played since 2015. That part is a fact actually.