Same here. I kept saying that Mickey had all the leverage once it became known that Payton was getting back into coaching, and he should have held out for a better deal. Instead, he folded like a cheap suit like he always does.
I don't really see the point of that when we would get nothing for him a year later, but I also would have been ok with it because he made his decision to leave so he can sit at home and not coach.
That's not exactly how it works though. If you're serious about getting value for Payton, you take your best shot and hope a couple of teams get in a bidding war for his services, otherwise you go with the best offer. You can take your ball and go home, but no legitimate GM would ever settle for getting nothing.
How do you know that? If you think holding out much longer would have yielded a better result, I'll have what you're smoking.
I don't think it was a done deal. There were negotiations and if Brees retired, an offer was rumored to be on the table.
How do I know what? That Payton was 100% in on getting back into coaching? That he wasn't going to sit out 2 more years? If you think he was, I'll definitely have what you're smoking.
Well, we disagree then because the only team who really pursued Payton was Denver. I thought we'd get more for him at the time, but in retrospect, we got pretty much all we would. There were never any reports of other teams bidding for his services.
No doubt it's only an opinion, but ask yourself this:
Yeah, I don't know. If I'm sitting in the room as a Denver front office guy, I'm doing all I can to get Payton, but there's a clock and other options to consider as well. The longer we hold out, the less leverage the Saints retain. The reason I say that is if Payton stays retired another year, then he arguably becomes a free agent. There was a lot of debate on whether Payton could run the clock out, and I tend to think the Saints front office weren't gonna push on that.
They would gain nothing. To try and force Payton to sit out is nothing less than just spiteful and the team would lose out. I say they would lose out because if we know anything about Sean it seems he would have no problem just waiting it out if push came to shove.
This is where I disagree. I don't think Payton was sitting out another year or 2.
I know he wanted to coach. I wish I knew all of the information because it goes way beyond him just being burnt out because if that was the case he would have sat out much longer than he did.
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