“It doesn’t happen often where an NFL team or organization gets embarrassed,” Payton told Bell. “And that happened here. Part of it was their own fault, relative to spending so much ***** time trying to win the offseason — the P.R., the pomp and circumstance, marching people around and all this stuff.”
That won’t happen this year. Payton is taking a page from the Costanza playbook for 2023.
“Everything I heard about last season, we’re doing the opposite,” Payton said.
In explaining the decision to just focus on the work, Payton took a backhanded shot at Hackett’s new team in New York.
“We’re not doing any of that,” Payton said. “The Jets did that this year. You watch. Hard Knocks, all of it. I can see it coming.”
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