Once before a game against the Patriots, Payton dyed his hair and dressed up as Belichick and did an hourlong impression of the exact meeting happening in New England. It left the players laughing and motivated, and the Saints handed New England its worst loss of the Belichick era. "One of Sean's greatest capacities is to take whatever has happened and put it in the background," Loomis says. "He doesn't forget. But he bounces back."