Sean Listened to or Followed the Example of the Wrong Bill

I have an unpopular opinion on this. I think good coaches are important in sports - they bring leadership, creativity, and motivation to their teams. With that said, the players, specifically, good players with talent and skill are more important. A coach can be a great speaker, motivate the players to want to run through a wall, likable, approachable, etc - but if the players don’t have the necessary talent, skills, strength, etc. then they aren’t finding much success. You can draw up great game plans but if the players can’t execute then you’re not going to win much. Belichick didn’t fall off a cliff and Arians and Bowles are not Hall of Fame coaches; however, they all had Brady under center and found success.

This was my long-winded way of saying that Payton doesn’t have the horses to compete in Denver. There is no “bat game”, no amount of fussing and cussing, no magic words that will change this.