If you're waiting to find out from Payton's book, good luck. We have his story--he was burned out and needed a break. And his last season was tough. But it was tough because the team was going south--no quarterback, overall talent down, recent drafts unproductive, horrible salary-cap shape. And Payton's fingerprints were on all of those issues. He got out because it made sense for him to do so and because he could.