Jeff Duncan on Sean Payton 2023

[Saint Spud]

After we beat Atlanta.

If losing to Atlanta somehow helps bring SP back, I’m gonna buy a Desmond Ridder jersey.

 

[Saint Jack]

They’ll likely play the Niners. Cowboys one and done again

As long as it’s another year without a Cowboys championship.
Waiting on 40 years since the Cowboys last Super Bowl.

 

[DaveXA]

It’s a win-win for us either way. We either see Sean Payton return to the Saints or we’ll receive first round pick(s) compensation if he decides that LA or Arizona are better situations for him. The sadness would be putting that draft pick compensation in the hands of Allen and Carmichael if we’re trading Payton and those two are still HC and OC.

Yeah, either way, I hope he's coaching next season. Whether it's in NOLA or somewhere else, we'll get something.

 

[DaveXA]

If losing to Atlanta somehow helps bring SP back, I’m gonna buy a Desmond Ridder jersey.

I'm not going that far, but I understand the sentiment.

 

[Saint Jack]

If losing to Atlanta somehow helps bring SP back, I’m gonna buy a Desmond Ridder jersey.

I can’t say that. Just can’t.

 

[zatsnzapps]

I'm not going that far, but I understand the sentiment.

I would absolutely do it.*

I might even wear a Three's Company shirt along with it. (yeah, I know the spelling is different)

* I have family members that I could pawn it off to after it's done it's hoo-doo voo-doo.

 

[Bill]

As long as it’s another year without a Cowboys championship.
Waiting on 40 years since the Cowboys last Super Bowl.

One of the few things that would help make this season palatable.

 

[BelowZero]

You gotta think if this has legs, it’s already been discussed between ms. Benson and loomis. If there is a chance it happens, I’m sure they’ll let Allen walk for Payton. We all know the rest of the story is going to get out eventually and if the fans hear that they passed on Payton to keep DA another season, the backlash from fans would be insane.

Honestly? Backlash would be an understatement. It'd be a fantastic way to completely lose an already smaller fanbase, and you couldn't blame anyone for doing so with a decision like that. That's basically saying you're content with losing.

 

[EGLSShin]

I think the interesting thing according to Duncan in yesterday's interviews is that Payton has already thought out what moves he would make the moment he was hired as a head coach. He's done deep analysis already, which also begs the question, what team is gonna just allow him to have such control? Duncan also said evaluated front offices which means to me he wants some level of control as well. He's not gonna get that in a lot of places outside of New Orleans. Some of the franchises he was reportedly connected to are notoriously cheap.

 

[SaintRob]

That said, I had to wonder how he felt this year watching his beloved team turn into a laughingstock & a dumpster fire. He HAD to be imagining what he would do to fix all the problems as they unfolded throughout the season. Does that translate into actually WANTING to take these matters back into his own hands? I still believe that's unlikely. But it's not impossible that he could be so moved.

I think he's legitimately been doing this, even on a micromanaged play-by-play in a series while watching the game live, basis. Like Drew's "mental reps", I'd bet he was taking "mental coaching reps" during game and probably cringed at the offensive play calling. It would not surprise me at all for him to be thinking, "I would have made X adjustment in game 1, had Y game plan for game 2, etc... and had us at 9-4, running away with the division!"

 

[Merl]

SP as HC.
Brees as OC.
Brady at QB.

I’m in!

Not happening. Lets at least TRY to be realistic.

 

[saintsmarchin]

Not happening. Lets at least TRY to be

New Owner: Archie Manning
New GM: Don King
New Head Coach: Bobby Knight
Medical Staff: Korin.. sensu beans op
New OC: Bobby Cox
New DC: Brent Sapergia

We may not be able to save the Saints but at least we will avenge them.

 

[sfidc3]

Its not out of the realm of possibility that he's saw what he's built get lit on fire and burned to the ground 6 weeks into the season. Maybe that ticked him off to the point he became open to coaching the Saints again. Nobody thought this team would only have 4 wins going into the last 4 games of the season.

Above is my hope, albeit hopeful....it is a possibility....

 

[Bill]

Above is my hope, albeit hopeful....it is a possibility....

I once bought a 1972 Olds Cutlass Supreme that needed a lot of work to restore it back to shape. I ended up fixing or rebuilding most everything on that car and it made me feel so proud when I finished it off by installing a new gold vinyl top & slick black paint job! It looked as great as it ran! Everyone that saw it admired the work that I put into it.

Some time passed and someone offered me more money for it than it was worth, and so I took it. About 5 years later I saw that car at a grocery store parking lot and it was totally dogged out… no longer the jewel that it once was. My first thought was, “How could he DO this?!?!?!” But my next thought was to wonder if I should try to buy it back from the guy and put it back in shape once again.

I’m hoping that Sean has a bit of that ‘car restoration’ mentality and wants to fix up his gem of a team and proudly parade it around the NFL postseasons the way he once did.

Sad to say, I never bought back that car, and I’m sure it eventually was just run into the ground. I wonder if Payton will allow the same thing to happen?