I don't buy into the premise that SP is "broken" or somehow different from 2006. Sure, he has evolved... but only a little bit and slowly. The premise that SP is motivated in any way by race is just ridiculous.
The above is not wishful thinking, because I wish for him to fail.
He might be broken. He's openly talking about wanting to do Hard Knocks and seems to be concerned as to how he's perceived. Does that sound like the Sean Payton we remember?
“I think it’s part of the deal, and I understand it,” Payton said. “I get it. It’s the only thing that makes me once and a while want to do Hard Knocks. There’s a perception. That would be the only reason to get an inside look as to this whole ‘old school’ approach. Shoot, you don’t do this this long if you’re not adjusting, funny, creative — all those things. I think I am all those things.”