Sean Payton on Broncos 2022 Season - Wow

[Beck Water]

I gotta find the rest of this interview and listen 👀🍿

 

 

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“There’s so much dirt around that. There’s 20 dirty hands, for what was allowed, tolerated in the fricking training rooms, the meeting rooms. The offense. I don’t know Hackett. A lot of people had dirt on their hands. It wasn’t just Russell. He didn’t just flip. He still has it. This B.S. that he hit a wall? Shoot, they couldn’t get a play in. They were 29th in the league in pre-snap penalties on both sides of the ball.”

 

“It doesn’t happen often where an NFL team or organization gets embarrassed,” Payton said. “And that happened here. Part of it was their own fault, relative to spending so much (expletive) time trying to win the offseason – the PR, the pomp and circumstance, marching people around and all this stuff. We’re not doing any of that.”

 

“It might have been one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL. That’s how bad it was.”

 

Wow.  Just....Wow. 

I guess when you're Sean Payton, you aren't too worried about burning bridges in the "small world" of the NFL.

[Manther]

Wowsers!  Thanks for sharing.  It must have been a train wreck for the organization to be okay with Payton saying these things.  His comments seem to go further than the coaching staff.

[Fan in Chicago]

Talk about being candid and open! 

Of course Hackett has to be blamed but someone in that organization interviewed him, looked at his track record and still thought he is worthy of being a HC. I also blame the idiots who hired him into that position 

Edited July 27, 2023 by Fan in Chicago

[Sammy Watkins' Rib]

9 minutes ago, Fan in Chicago said:

Talk about being candid and open! 

Of course Hackett has to be blamed but someone in that organization interviewed him, looked at his track record and still thought he is worthy of being a HC. I also blame the idiots who hired him into that position 

 

and wasn’t a big part of the Hackett hire trying to entice Aaron Rodgers out of Green Bay?

[Nick the Greek]

Insane to me Hackett got a head coaching job. Name recognition will get you places, that is for sure.

[Ethan in Cleveland]

Doesn't bode well for Jets 

 

And yes I'd trade Sean for Sean. 

[mrags]

I’ll say this. He better know what he’s doing and get results. With all the crap he’s talking of he ends up looking even remotely similar to last year he might as well hang up his clipboard 

[Fleezoid]

3 minutes ago, mrags said:

I’ll say this. He better know what he’s doing and get results. With all the crap he’s talking of he ends up looking even remotely similar to last year he might as well hang up his clipboard 

 

Yeah! And take his chalkboard home too!

[BillsShredder83]

1 hour ago, Fleezoid said:

 

Yeah! And take his chalkboard home too!

Better take his keycard to the room with the opiates first ! lol

[mjt328]

The Bills had some REALLY bad offensive coordinators during the drought.

But there was just something about Nate Hackett that was especially awful.

 

Not sure I could even put my finger on it, but I must say I was floored when the Broncos hired him last year. 

[Augie]

9 hours ago, Fan in Chicago said:

Talk about being candid and open! 

Of course Hackett has to be blamed but someone in that organization interviewed him, looked at his track record and still thought he is worthy of being a HC. I also blame the idiots who hired him into that position 

 

Did they get new idiots before hiring Payton? (Serious question.)

 

Shocked that he was that open, in part to defend Russ I’m sure. Build him back up. But that felt like some bridge burning there, and you never know when how or when that might affect you in some way. That did not feel professional, IMO. 

 

 

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Edited July 28, 2023 by Augie

[T.E.]

Guy's being pretty mouthy for chronically underachieving with a top-5ish all-time QB...in a dome, no less.

[Fan in Chicago]

2 hours ago, Augie said:

 

Did they get new idiots before hiring Payton? (Serious question.)

The book on Payton's reign in Denver is yet to be written

[Mark Vader]

10 hours ago, Fan in Chicago said:

Talk about being candid and open! 

Of course Hackett has to be blamed but someone in that organization interviewed him, looked at his track record and still thought he is worthy of being a HC. I also blame the idiots who hired him into that position 

John Elway?

[Warcodered]

5 hours ago, Nick the Greek said:

Insane to me Hackett got a head coaching job. Name recognition will get you places, that is for sure.

What I find truly astounding was that he got a job as an OC after that season as a HC.

[78thealltimegreat]

The running CJ Spiller till he throws up deal was an all timer. Paul Hackett must have had a ton of connections in this league cause his son couldn’t coordinate a Girl Scout cookie stand. 

[ticketssince61]

Wow -  "“It might have been one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of the NFL. That’s how bad it was.”"

[BuffaloBillsGospel2014]

7 hours ago, mrags said:

I’ll say this. He better know what he’s doing and get results. With all the crap he’s talking of he ends up looking even remotely similar to last year he might as well hang up his clipboard 

 

After Denver used a 1st round pick on Payton? That would look even more foolish. 

[Richard Noggin]

Destroying Hackett as a HC last season is entirely justified. He was COMPLETELY unprepared for the scope of the job. For the layers of details and logistics and planning and organization. As suggested by Payton, the Broncos struggled just to RUN a professional NFL offense play-to-play, making substitutions and getting play calls delivered down the chain in time for the players to diagnose and execute (or even snap the ball at all). Early in the season, especially, it seemed almost unprecedentedly dysfunctional. 

 

That being said, there are MANY quality NFL coordinators who failed as head coaches. So it's still possible Hackett can be successful letting Aaron Rodgers run his GB offense in New Jersey. Might even be the best hire the Jets could have made at OC, with Rodgers aboard. Out with the LaFleur system (that Rodgers excelled in but didn't always love) and in with the overt Aaron Rodgers system (not hugely different, schematically, to be honest). 

[GETTOTHE50]

Lol still can’t believe Hackett actually got hired to be a HC 😂