Is anyone here mad at Sean Payton for the team we have now? (1 Viewer)

[Bill]

I can't help but to wonder how Sean Payton feels when he sees what is left of his once proud and successful team. No, we can't control his decisions for his life & career, but it's got to be as hard for him to watch this collapse as it is for us.

No doubt we appreciate Coach Payton more now than we ever did. What he created here was the right fix at the perfect time. It's just hard to accept that it's all over now.

 

[Joe Horn-et]

Absolutely

 

[Saint Jack]

No. There is avoiding a season like this when transitioning from one long term successful regime to another.
The only outliners are the Steelers and the Packers from Favre to Rodgers. And it seems the Packers are paying for it too.

 

[Treybad]

Me no but I would be lying now after Payton bailed to take another job elsewhere.... Payton and Loomis went all in mode for the past 4 years and Payton doesn't want to deal with the aftermath, mainly because he feels there is no shot of recovering without rebuilding

 

[NatureBoy]

Yes. He saw the writing on the wall and ran. He created this and ran from it before it imploded. I have to chuckle when I hear our fans saying he might come back. No way. He knows this franchise is in rough shape while we recover from personnel and asset mismanagement.

 

[Nolan]

No. Mickey needed to do a better job at putting the right man in charge to lead this franchise after Sean stepped away. He failed miserably.

 

[Taker597]

No. The team was built for Brees and his last years. Sean didn't driving the roster off the cliff. We mortgaged our future for Brees. It was worth it.

 

[longtime lurker]

No, he set a standard that his successor has failed to come close to so….adios.

 

[CowtownSaint]

I can't help but to wonder how Sean Payton feels when he sees what is left of his once proud and successful team. No, we can't control his decisions for his life & career, but it's got to be as hard for him to watch this collapse as it is for us.

No doubt we appreciate Coach Payton more now than we ever did. What he created here was the right fix at the perfect time. It's just hard to accept that it's all over now.

If anything I value Payton more. In every way. The way he elevated coaches, FO and Talent is something I have never seen. No way can I be mad at seeing just how masterful he was at getting the most out of his players day in and day out.

He couldn’t do it anymore, last season the battle was too much, he earned the right to walk away.

I see a lot of players and coaches on this team, look exactly like how folks looked when they left the saints in years past: pedestrian.

Even Kamara looks average at best.

Time has shown me to appreciate just how good Payton was. It has also shown me just how bad abs arrogant we are as an organization thinking he was nobody. The actions of continuing on have been disasterous with this staff.

Frankly for every day Allen still has a job, I lose more respect for Loomis and the Organization.

 

[Bill]

Me no but I would be lying now after Payton bailed to take another job elsewhere.... Payton and Loomis went all in mode for the past 4 years and Payton doesn't want to deal with the aftermath, mainly because he feels there is no shot of recovering without rebuilding

Yes, it would have been nice if he left the Saints as a functional contender that we could all be proud of. But likely if this team was a legitimate contender, he would still be here.

 

[SaintsMan209]

I think it shows what kind of culture Payton actually built. It's funny how everyone was saying he's a hard guy to be around and he's always keeping coaches until 11pm. Now we see how the team reacted with no Payton. They slack off and keep fumbling. Kamara and Ingram along have cost the same several games.

 

[Saintslfc13]

I wouldn’t say mad is the right word but I do think he essentially quit on the team that he had a large amount of input in creating.

 

[Bill]

I wouldn’t say mad is the right word but I do think he essentially quit on the team that he had a large amount of input in creating.

And so, how do you feel about him "quitting on the team"?

 

[State Of Affairs]

I can't help but to wonder how Sean Payton feels when he sees what is left of his once proud and successful team. No, we can't control his decisions for his life & career, but it's got to be as hard for him to watch this collapse as it is for us.

No doubt we appreciate Coach Payton more now than we ever did. What he created here was the right fix at the perfect time. It's just hard to accept that it's all over now.

 

[Jesse Custer]

Nah, at first I was, but then I think about the coaching job he did last season and what he got out of a worse roster offensively. Seeing what's become of this season, I totally get why he was burned out.