telling Jarrod Bell of USA Today. Basically,
I'm going to coach again.
And that's not a surprise.
I expect him to be back in 2023. The question is where
now
he pointed out that, they're usually about six openings
every year. This past year, there were more, and he
mentioned, there are several factors to be considered.
Here's the thing to remember,
and I don't think that
I'm saying anything that we don't already know if we pay
close attention to how the sausage gets made. But
the reality is this,
Everyone are out there now. No. Sean Payton. As in is, in play,
if they didn't already know it, they know. Now
he's in play for next year. They should have known if they
were paying attention
by virtue of the fact that he nearly landed in Miami
this year, but for the Brian Flores lawsuit would have been
Sean, Payton, and Tom Brady together in Miami. So Peyton is
in play
if you're a team.
That
is progressing through the 2022 season in maybe it's not going
the way that you had hoped and look in these weeks of everyone
being zero and zero. It's easy for all 32 teams to
sell the idea that the glass is half full
at some point. The glass is going to start to drain. You
can't have good teams without bad teams, we get on the other
side of Halloween. You can have some owners that start thinking
about their options and the traditional approach is I'm not
happy with my current coach. When
the season's over, I'm going to fire him and then I'm going to
embark on a full and complete search to find the best
candidate to take over the franchise moving forward. This
is one of the things. The league has been encouraging
teams to do in order
to comply with the letter, and the spirit of the Rooney Rule,
don't decide who your next coach is going to. To be.
Until you've done your proper search. The problem is,
sometimes
a team isn't even going to fire.
The coach, they have
isn't going to give up the burden
the hand, unless the owner knows.
That an upgrade is possible. You don't want to be in
a situation where you fire somebody who was pretty good
and then,
You have a hard time finding somebody else that you think is
going to be better. That's just the way that ownership thinks.
And
we've talked about this before, the fact that they're
billionaires and they've been highly successful and they're
used to getting their way, they want to do things the way they
want to do things. So now that we know Sean Payton's imply,
that becomes an option for one of these teams whose owner says,
not really happy,
With where we are.
Can we do better?
And there's one shot to get Sean Payton. Anybody out there
that has ever thought about hiring Sean, Payton, all those
years, he stayed the Saints. Remember it was every year
Sunday Splash reports a
coin that he termed or a term that he coined. One of the two
is right?
It was every year
and he always stayed,
but the reality is,
there was always a thought that maybe one of these days, he'd
be in place somewhere else. He's keenly aware as anyone
who's won a Super Bowl with one team that no one's ever won
a Super Bowl with two teams. So now we know,
does it matter that the jobs aren't open doesn't matter that
the teams have coaches?
We all know,
and that's an important factor Because
by the time the coach of the team that's eventually going to
hire Sean, Payton is fine. Right.
It already will have been set up behind the scenes.
Everything will be in place
trade with the Saints contract with Peyton. It all gets set up
ahead of time in a way that violates multiple rules.
Rooney, Rule tampering rule, doesn't matter. That's how it
works. Look January 2019 is explained in Playmakers.
It was basically a day away from initiating. The process of
the Cowboys moving on from Jason Garrett,
conducting a search that would have looked like a real and
inclusive and And compliant process. And then ultimately
trading as a practical matter with the Saints for Sean,
Payton,
it was ready to happen earlier this year before, the Flores
lawsuit. Brady becomes minority owner, the Dolphins
Saints trade for Sean Payton, Sean Payton's rights at that
point because he already resigned from New Orleans and
then
Brady moves down from the ownership. Sweet to the
field.
Works out a deal with the Bucks plays for the Dolphins at all,
was going to be worked out ahead of time. It was just
a matter. Playing out. So that's what
we need to. Keep in mind, we get to the end of the season
and job start popping up.
Unless somebody is a little
too
Indiscreet about what's happening and
you have to be careful because if you talk about it too much
in the lead catches wind of it, if they decide this is the one
case where they are going to enforce the tampering roles
because they do it like once every five or six years,
randomly
the last time that I think the rules were enforced
happened against the Chiefs, Maybe.
Six years ago, you still have to be careful. You can't be too
blatant about it and force the league to do something, but
once the job start opening up,
Peyton,
and his next employer
will already know where this is heading the Saints or already
know
what they're getting
battle. Already be taken care of
quietly and privately behind the scenes. So that's the thing
to keep in mind,
the
news that six seven, eight jobs are open, that isn't the start
of the process,
that's the beginning of the end. That's when things are
getting put formerly in motion informally everything. Already
set up. So, keep that in mind as a season unfolds, because
especially the teams that underachieve
relative to their expectations. Whether it's the Cowboys,
who clearly will be in play
for Sean Payton. I know Jerry Jones doesn't want to talk
about that because he doesn't want to distract Mike McCarthy
because they think they have a chance to put a team together,
it gets to a Super Bowl. But as I've said before I think
anything less than an NFC Championship Game appearance,
puts McCarthy at risk of being supplanted
by Sean. Payton,
the Chargers and the Dolphins were mentioned last week. Bye.
Jackson the Miami Herald. If they have a disappointing, your
there's going to be somebody out there.
Who performs poorly
relative to these. And there are varying. Expectations. It's
not like the Texans are viewed as a playoff team. It's not
like, we're going to say, oh, the Steelers are an odds-on
favorite to get to the Super Bowl. Not Steelers, would move
on from my
Tom of my point is
there are loose expectations for every
every team out there
and there will be teams
that fall for far short of what
those loose expectations entering training camp in
the regular season are will know by the time To November
and that's probably when
it will start happening behind the scenes
and if the folks behind the scenes or smart, we won't know
about it.
My point is this,
By the time the pieces start moving.
The reality is
They already know where the pieces are going to go and
somebody
it will be a surprise. If this doesn't happen, somebody will
end up with Sean Payton as their head coach come late
January, if not earlier of 2023.