what your assessment is, if the Broncos search, as we pivot to
the eventual higher of Sean, Payton. It's not official yet.
They're still working through some of the details. First they
had to do the deal with
the Saints, then they have to do the deal with Peyton,
but I feel like it's started with
we want Harbaugh
or Peyton. Jim not John. We want Jim Harbaugh
or Sean Payton
and then they move past both of those guys. Because they knew
it was going to take a lot to get Payton and Harbaugh. Who
the hell knows? What went
It on there
and I think they fell in love with D'Amico Ryan's and there
was a period 10, 11 days ago. They were ready
to hire D'Amico Ryan's even though they would have had to
wait until after the 49ers were done, but they're ready to
settle on D'Amico, Ryan's
and then they found out Ryan's isn't interested.
And that's when they pivoted back to Harbaugh,
went to Ann Arbor
very significant for Greg pain, or the CEO of the Broncos,
former CEO of Walmart to get on a plane and go to Michigan and
January to talk to Jim Harbaugh. That shows you they
Wanted Jim Harbaugh, they wouldn't have done that if they
didn't want Jim Harbaugh. Well, Harbaugh that petered out again
and that was back to Peyton.
And my theory is Peter and who knows, maybe they'll be a book
written about it someday, but I think that as of Tuesday, when
it looked like the Broncos were flailing
in an effort to find a coach
that nobody wanted that job except Jerry rosberg.
I feel like they hit the panic button and they said, let's get
this done. Let's quit screwing around here. We're starting
look like nincompoops.
There's your SAT Word of the Day
and Peter, I'm sure we'll come up with something better. We
still have time, but let's get this thing done. And lo and
behold by the end of the day, they had Sean Payton.
Okay. So Mike, you know, I think
a lot of history is recreated
after this and I'm sure we're going to hear from Denver. Oh
this is our first choice,
you know. I don't know if he was their first choice
you know especially after Harbaugh
the whole Harbaugh Fascination fascinates me
quite honestly
you know by the end of his time, he does. He ever last
a long time,
you know? Lasted in Michigan, I guess. But I mean, does he
ever?
Does he ever really last a long time?
And at the end of his tenure are people saying, man,
glad we can move on from him?
I mean, you know,
Harbaugh is a handful. He's unlike his brother at least, in
my opinion, for my,
you know,
dealings with the teams around him. But forget that for
a minute, I think my biggest issue with all of this is
You know, I think it just leads us to understand
that during the process
of all of these things,
you know. Look we probably follow a lot of the same people
on Twitter,
you know, a week ago. We're you seeing 10 days ago.
Sean. Payton is not involved.
Sean Payton has questions about the ownership.
Sean Payton is not a legitimate candidate for this. Job.
So everybody was dismissing him
and I remember, you know, a
little more than a week ago,
Peyton saying
to me,
you know, and look at the time, it was off the Record. Now,
I'm not going to say them, everything that was said in
the conversation, but I'm just saying that
Sean Payton like that place. I did, I kept saying to myself
where is this stuff about how he didn't like ownership
or or that? He'd be so demanding that they wouldn't want him
to me.
The biggest thing that he had
is he could look them in the eye and say,
I am the one who gives you the best chance and really the only
legitimate chance
to fix this investment in a quarterback. That might be one
of the worst in history
unless you get somebody in here to come in
and put out the fire.
And the other thing that he has, Mike
and again, we'll see what happens.
Sean, Payton has the ability to come in and to tell Russell
Wilson,
you are going to be one
of 53.
There's not going to be in office in the building. There's
not going to be any special. This special that video. This
video.
No no no.
You are going to come to the building every day just like
everybody else in your just going to be like everybody else
and obviously
he got to the point with Drew Brees. We're on Saturday night
before the game breeds told in the plays he wanted to run and
Payton said, okay we're going to run them
but Wilson has a long time. I'm to go
before that happens.
The other thing that I've heard out of there is that Russell
Wilson is very ready
for someone like Sean Payton
to come in and to be used as a malleable kind of piece of clay
in the hands of Sean Payton.
Remember, two years ago when
we first knew Russell Wilson was unhappy in Seattle. His
agent went on the record and said that Russell Wilson, would
accept a trade to four places in one of the four was
the Saints when Sean, Payton was a head coach. So this has been
a long time coming,
it's happening, it's just a matter of time before. It's
official, and by the way, in Phoenix, next week, we will
have Sean Payton on set. He always makes the rounds.
I think for zebra Technologies,
so we're going to chance to talk to him a little bit about
his plans for us wasn't. But the bottom line is this.
If Russell Wilson stinks this year, it's going to be because
Russell Wilson, we can say, well, maybe it was Nathaniel
Hackett for 2022. If they stinks this year, it's not
going to be because of the coaching. It's going to be
because of the player.
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