Sean Payton’s return to New Orleans - Denver Post

Got to thinking, since I’m all about some history…

Even the great Vince Lombardi left the team with which he’ll always be associated to coach the Washington Redskins the very next season after he “retired,” with the quote marks, just as Payton did.

As fans even older than me know, he turned the Redskins around in just one season, but had to step away due to cancer, which took his life following the next season.

To address one previous post, Mora quitting and Payton quitting were two totally different kinds of quits. Payton realized he couldn’t win anymore without an elite QB in a league that now caters to QB’s via the rule book. And he delivered a ring. Mora’s standing with the fans as a coach and person has definitely improved through the passage of time — but those teams didn’t ever win a playoff game.