Comments on: Report: League grants Saints permission to work out Payton deal http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/ ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.com Mon, 20 May 2013 04:42:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: musicman495 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2104021 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:19:45 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2104021 One thing I have not heard mentioned in this story is the role Bill Parcells has played for years as Payton’s mentor. Does anyone really think the phone call from Payton to Parcells asking for Parcells’ advice about going to work for Jerry Jones would last longer than 60 seconds?

]]> By: lawyermalloy http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103855 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:16:09 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103855 Why would any respectable coach want to go to a team with such a meddling owner? I don’t believe for a second that Payton would consider the Cowboys without his hand picked GM and of course we know that aint happening.

]]> By: mogogo1 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103726 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:37:15 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103726 They should be able to iron this out quickly. How long does it take to delete a single clause out of a contract? Frankly, it’s amazing it was in there to start with. I get that Payton and Loomis are tight and Benson loves them, but few owners would okay a contract letting his coach out if the front office turned over. And even fewer GMs would have the stones to present such a contract to their owner.

]]> By: robf2010 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103661 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:25:07 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103661 “Buffalo has a Brinks truck to say different.”

ALL NFL owners have Brinks trucks. No one will offer anything that Benson can’t match.

]]> By: FinFan68 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103556 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:18:12 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103556 Is he truly suspended or just not allowed to coach from the sidelines right now? Based on the suspension, no team, Saints or otherwise, should be allowed to talk contract with Payton. That is actually to the Saints benefit. If a HC gets fired it is usually “Black Monday” or during the last 1/2 of the season. How many teams would be willing to wait around for a month or longer on the off chance that Payton would want to be their HC? If they don’t get him, most of the other “elite” prospects would be gone and they would have to settle for somebody else. I think the coaching shuffle will be close to done before SP ends his suspension.

]]> By: hor2012 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103521 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:59:08 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103521 Ok, I don’t why but all of this seems so funny to me. Anyway at this point I’m just watching football and looking forward to Sunday night. I think we might be watching the superbowl preview Texans and Bears. I think Payton will be back in New Orleans. But, I also thought the cowboys would go 13 and 3 this year!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: enrifer http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103445 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:34:28 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103445 Link anything to the Cowboys and it becomes big, it’s just reality.

]]> By: cliffordc05 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103422 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:24:14 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103422 What is this obsession with the Cowboys? Why does anyone think that Payton would go to a franchise that features an incompetent general manager with a lifetime contract. Dallas has played 500 over the past decade and made one playoff appearance. They don’t totally suck but they are damn close.

]]> By: thedownwardspiral http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103411 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:18:00 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103411 ESPN is the Fox News of the sports world. Complete fabrications for the sake of drama and shock value being made to look like factual information. Do they think no one with half a brain watches them?

If I was as wrong in my job as they are in theirs, I’d have been fired a long time ago.

]]> By: prince5000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103405 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:14:04 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103405 49erstim says:
Nov 6, 2012 9:21 AM
Why would there even be speculation about Payton coaching the Cowboys? That is a no win situation for him.
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Exactly. Saints and Cowboys are both 3-5 and if i had to pick one to make the playoffs it would be the Saints, and they have one of the worse defenses in the history of the NFL. That’s the state of the Cowboy franchise.

]]> By: lightcleric http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103399 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:10:24 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103399 Can we finally put a stake in the heart of this non-story?

BTW I don’t blame Schefter for this since it actually ended up being true. I blame ESPN blowing it way up to fill the gap between their Cowboys and Jets coverage.

]]> By: protagoras111 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103398 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:09:39 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103398 If he does leave New Orleans will they keep a bus seat and a seat at their dinner tables forever reserved for him? #cheesy

]]> By: ernie ernie http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103389 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:03:31 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103389 Just where do people really think he would go and get a better situation than NO. The money will be there for sure and when you have a team with one of the top QB’s in the league who makes you look good, your not going to anywhere like Dallas and the headache Romo would give you every Sunday.
No one leaves a sure winner for just money.

]]> By: mrlaloosh http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103385 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:01:02 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103385 ESPN reporters are a bunch of hacks. They are the sports equivalent of The National Inquirer. Next they’ll report that Drew Brees is an alien life form & Rex Ryan is pregnant with Tebows love child. Hmmmm…..

]]> By: Beezo-Doo-doo-Zippity-Bop-bop-bop http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103382 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:59:19 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103382 Now is probably a good time for him to move on. He is forever linked to two scandals in NO, one over drug abuse and the other the bounty scandal. Better to move on and distance himself.

]]> By: skoobyfl http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103357 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:39:38 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103357 Buffalo has a Brinks truck to say different.

]]> By: tlmoon2112 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103352 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:38:03 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103352 The league office got this one right, kudos to them for doing what makes sense.

]]> By: djmcba http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103349 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:35:11 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103349 Florio, you were wrong. Because something you said eventually becomes correct, it doesn’t make you right for accurately reporting too early. Drop the anti-ESPN charade, if it wasn’t for what they did for your industry you wouldn’t have a job.

]]> By: 49erstim http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103327 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:21:20 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103327 Why would there even be speculation about Payton coaching the Cowboys? That is a no win situation for him. He is a real coach. Jerrah only wants a puppet as HC and that is not Sean Payton. JasonGarret isn’t going anywhere….unless they decide to promot Rob Ryan (whom I believe to be the next HC of the Eagles). Jerrah is the new Al Davis, except Davis was once a shrewd football mind.

]]> By: daknight93 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103318 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:14:18 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103318 Schefter is a pure drama king causing speculations that are not true…he works for espn which is an uncredible station.

]]> By: keepingitrealdumb http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/06/report-league-grants-saints-permission-to-work-out-payton-deal/#comment-2103313 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:10:04 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=1505189#comment-2103313 the NFL did the only thing that makes sense. i see him staying in NO .. why not? look at that offense.

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