N/S Payton critiques old Broncos staff, says Jets are setting themselves up for a hard fall, etc.
Jim Mora is a quitter and he squandered some of the best NFL defenses in history, 0 playoff wins in his career, he couldn't hold CSP's jock.....
CSP spent 16 years here brought us unprecedented success, was he perfect? No, far from it.....but he owes us nothing, and he very possibly will be remembered as the best coach in Saints history....sorry, this whining and crying about him leaving after 16 years is kind of pathetic.....folks acting like this is way outside the norm is hilarious.....
The reason Jim Mora never won a playoff game was because he was way too conservative in big games, including post-season games. He felt a 3-point or 7-point lead early in the 4th quarter was a big enough cushion to sit on in games, and more often then not, if that's your HC philosophy and you're committed to a running game that isn't well-executed and doesn't work, you will lose more then you win. And he was far too loyal to too many incompetent, inept, middling assistants on his staff, his refusal to fire Vic Fangio as his Colts DC in Indy after the 2001 season is a great example.
He was the middle class version of Marty Schottenheimer with even less playoff success, but when Mora quit midway through the 1996 season, he wasnt exaggerating or trying to find a convenient sounding excuse that no one would believe to explain why he didn't want to be here anymore, and as much as I appreciate the success Payton gave us for 16 seasons, I think we'll see this season in Denver who was really more of the engines that drove those teams: Payton or Brees. If one just does a cursory analysis of Mora's last press conference after losing to Panthers in 1996, its obvious he's worn out, exhausted, burned out, and lacking in any real ideas on how to.fix the teams' problems. After Jim Finks death in 1994, Mora was asked by Benson to take on a larger role in running the Saints FO alongside Kuharich(who Mora always viewed as an underling and not someone he really respected, like Finks), and Jim Miller and being a FA negotiatior, making most of off-field decisions beginning in the 1994 season, that wasnt his strength and distracted him from focusing on the team itself. That's one of major reasons why Mora was so burnt out by the 1996 season.
Payton is in a much tougher division than the one he left after the 2021 season. Kansas City doesn't look to be falling apart or rebuilding anytime soon as long as they have Patrick Mahomes, Herbert signing that huge 262.5 million dollar contract with LAC means he'll likely be staying with Chargers most of his career and he helps make Chargers a strong, #2 contender to Chiefs dominance of the AFC West/AFC.
Plus, he has to match wits with another future, HOF HC in Andy Reid, who, in many respects, is very much Payton's equal in terms of being an offensive innovator, creative schemes.