Sean Payton opens up about why he left the Saints (merged)

Maybe I'm missing your point, but to clarify, the nail in this case is the New Orleans Saints with Sean Payton at the helm being hammered down by the NFL/Goodell for the bounty farce and other alleged misdeeds. The NFL was making an example of a small market New Orleans Saints team, who had no horsepower to do anything about it.
The League had an ex employee that was mad because he was fired for missing work days from the Saints along with a multibillion dollar lawsuit about concussions.
That gets lost in all of this. That concussion lawsuit went beyond ESPN and sports networks into the morning show circuit and the evening news.