N/S Payton critiques old Broncos staff, says Jets are setting themselves up for a hard fall, etc. (5 Viewers)

[Saintsphere]

I know he's no longer a Saint but we’d be lying if we weren’t somewhat interested in casually following around how Payton is doing. And this article was very good and peak Sean Payton. He really pulled no punches. I’m glad he’s in the AFC so we don’t have to actively root against him (though I know some fans will still because they feel he ditched us)

Sean Payton pinpoints blame for Broncos' collapse, Russell Wilson's woes: '20 dirty hands'

Sean Payton has been tasked with repairing a Broncos team that cratered last season after the much-hyped addition of Russell Wilson.

www.usatoday.com

“Can I say this to you?” Payton said, shuffling stuff on his desk.

Of course, you can. Let it rip.

“I’m going to be pissed off if this is not a playoff team,” Payton told USA TODAY Sports.

The Broncos, who haven’t had a winning campaign since 2016, surely need this culture change. The franchise with eight Super Bowl appearances in its history (and now six coaches in 10 years) became a laughingstock last season as it paired rookie coach Nathaniel Hackett (who lasted 15 games) with veteran quarterback Russell Wilson and produced an unmitigated disaster underscored by the NFL’s worst offense.

“It doesn’t happen often where an NFL team or organization gets embarrassed,” Payton said. “And that happened here. Part of it was their own fault, relative to spending so much (expletive) time trying to win the offseason – the PR, the pomp and circumstance, marching people around and all this stuff.

“We’re not doing any of that. The Jets did that this year. You watch. 'Hard Knocks,' all of it. I can see it coming. Remember when (former Washington owner) Dan Snyder put that Dream Team together? I was at the Giants (in 2000). I was a young coach. I thought, ‘How are we going to compete with them? Deion’s (Sanders) there now.’ That team won eight games or whatever. So, listen…just put the work in.”

The hunch here is that Payton could care less about making the Jets' – or anybody’s – bulletin board.

“Oh, man,” Payton began. “There’s so much dirt around that. There’s 20 dirty hands, for what was allowed, tolerated in the fricking training rooms, the meeting rooms. The offense. I don’t know Hackett. A lot of people had dirt on their hands. It wasn’t just Russell. He didn’t just flip. He still has it. This B.S. that he hit a wall? Shoot, they couldn’t get a play in. They were 29th in the league in pre-snap penalties on both sides of the ball.”

Wilson, a 12th-year pro, has employed a support staff for years that includes a personal athletic trainer, a strength and conditioning coach and massage therapist. Yet boundaries were apparently blurred by the presence of Wilson’s personal quarterback coach, Jake Heaps.


Not anymore. When Payton was hired in February, he made it clear that Heaps would not have access to the team’s facility.

“That wasn’t his fault,” Payton said of Wilson. “That was the parents who allowed it. That’s not an incrimination on him, but an incrimination on the head coach, the GM, the president and everybody else who watched it all happen.

“Now, a quarterback having an office and a place to watch film is normal. But all those things get magnified when you’re losing. And that other stuff, I’ve never heard of it. We’re not doing that.”

 

[BayouSAINTJoe]

Don't feel he ditched us...He ditched us

 

[Saint Greg]

I know he's no longer a Saint but we’d be lying if we weren’t somewhat interested in casually following around how Payton is doing. And this article was very good and peak Sean Payton. He really pulled no punches. I’m glad he’s in the AFC so we don’t have to actively root against him (though I know some fans will still because they feel he ditched us)

We need to root against them. We have their 2nd round pick.

 

[Booker]

So different than DA, "just keep doing what you're doing." He's going to win in Denver.

 

[Saintsphere]

We need to root against them. We have their 2nd round pick.

true lol

 

[Saintsphere]

Don't feel he ditched us...He ditched us

there is scuttlebutt he tried to come back this offseason though

 

[new city champ]

Gotta say, for all the things for Payton to criticize last year in Denver, pre-snaps due to delays in getting plays in seems like he's tossing rocks from a glass house. The Saints struggled with the exact same problem every year under Payton...

 

[RJS]

Maybe Payton should take his own advice and just "put the work in", instead of throwing shade on other teams/staffs publicly. Some things should stay inside the walls.

 

[jayd265]

i def miss that guy. and brees of course. but i'm fully invested in the future now.

i still want to see how he does there. curious if brees made payton better, or if payton made brees better. guess we'll see what kind of coach he is. a lot of us wanted wilson here with payton for years.

 

[Mojomajik9]

Payton really buried Hackett. I’m not sure I can remember him being so highly critical of another coach. I mean alluding to it yeah but he was very blunt here.

 

[SonofLou]

SP and Russel Wilson is going to blame each other by week 13

RW will be traded and SP will draft his QB in next years draft

*Cant go to the playoffs with a 1 and 5 division record

 

[Mamba]

Even if he's right. This is petty and unnecessary. And it screams insecurity.

 

[Optimistic Ozzy]

He ditched us. To H-E, DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS WITH HIM.

 

[Booker]

Payton really buried Hackett. I’m not sure I can remember him being so highly critical of another coach. I mean alluding to it yeah but he was very blunt here.

It was warranted.

 

[SonofLou]

Even if he's right. This is petty and unnecessary. And it screams insecurity.

Petty and insecurity is whom Payton is