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Sean Payton Doesn’t Forget Anything

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The job of NFL head coach is notoriously brutal. It involves endless hours of grinding tape and scheming up gameplans, not to mention endless headaches from logistical challenges, personnel issues, and public relations battles. It’s not for the faint of heart. And yet, after a theoretically relaxing season away from the game of football, 59-year-old Sean Payton has elected to return to the grind as the new head coach of the Denver Broncos. So today, with the NFL season upon us, ESPN’s Seth Wickersham explains how, in spite of the litany of grudges and grievances Payton has held against the league for many years, he just can’t quit this game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Seth Wickersham, summer is ending. And you got a chance to go to one of the best places

0:07.9

in the world to be at in the summer, Northern Idaho, Cordillane. What was that trip like?

0:13.9

Yeah, in July, right after 4th of July, I find myself in Cordillane, Idaho at Gaza Ranch,

0:20.8

which is this incredibly exclusive, yet rustic golf course up in the mountains with these

0:27.4

great views of the lake. And I found a group of guys who sit in the corner of the lodge

0:36.4

and with a table that overlooks the lake, and they call themselves the breakfast club.

0:45.6

They meet every morning at 8 o'clock, and the members include Wayne Gretzky, John L.

0:51.6

Wei, John Cooper, who coaches the Tampa Bay Lightning, one two cups, former baseball star

0:56.7

Pat Burle, former NHL tough guy Kelly Chase, and also former Saints coach and current Broncos

1:04.4

coach, Sean Payton. And I was up there for a couple days kind of following around Payton,

1:16.9

and the thing that was the most interesting to me was watching him in this moment that he

1:22.9

is in his life, where he tries to take the best of his time in New Orleans and leave behind

1:29.4

the worst. One of the things that, you know, I think his defined his tenure is these grievances,

1:41.1

and I think that the grievances, they began with Bounty Gate, and they've piled up enough

1:46.6

over the years, they've kind of become his reality. He doesn't want to fight these old

1:51.8

wars that drove him crazy in New Orleans. He doesn't want to waste his battery energy

1:57.3

on it, but he sometimes does anyway, and it's kind of part of the entire package when

2:04.5

you hire Sean Payton, that you're getting this brilliant offensive mind, and you're also

2:08.3

getting someone who doesn't forget slights. We kind of have this idea of him as this

2:17.0

precocious young offensive genius, but he's 59 now, and he's growing around the temples,

2:24.6

and he has to squint if he's not reading his reading glasses. This is really the last

2:32.9

act for him as a coach, and I think it's going to define his legacy, whether it's going

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