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PFT Live with Mike Florio

Sean Payton leaves Saints + Ryan Poles, new Bears GM | 1/26 #1

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

Sports

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Sean Payton: Yesterday, the 16 year Saints head coach announced that he is "stepping away" from the Saints. He stressed that he is not retiring as a coach, just leaving that role for now. Chicago Bears: Ryan Poles is the new GM of the Bears. Minnesota Vikings: Kwesi Adofo-Mensah has been named the new GM. He is coming off of 2 years as the Browns VP of Operations.

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0:00.0

The last thing I did before I went to bed, I Google search how not to cry during a speech.

0:08.0

And one of the items was drink water and yawn.

0:11.0

Well, I didn't want to yawn.

0:14.0

But it worked a little bit.

0:17.0

And I've heard that saying it takes a village.

0:20.0

And honestly, it takes a village and honestly it takes a building

0:21.6

to be successful, not in one year, but it takes a building to be successful year after year.

0:30.6

I don't know what's next and it kind of feels good.

0:46.0

Wednesday edition, PFT Live, Chris Sims, Mike Floreo.

0:48.5

Hello to our friends on Peacock, Series XM85.

0:54.1

If you're listening on a podcast or watching later in the day on Sky Sports, UK and Ireland.

0:55.5

Hello, welcome in.

1:02.6

It wasn't as stunning as it would have been if it hadn't kind of trickled out over the weekend that Sean Payton hadn't committed to returning to the Saints in 2022.

1:08.1

And then the owner of the team, Gail Bensonenson made it clear on monday they didn't know what

1:12.2

was going on on tuesday we all found out what was going on sean peyton joined the saint 16 years ago

1:19.0

and now resigns as the head coach goes out on his own terms it was time he explained that yesterday

1:26.6

90 minute press conference,

1:28.4

and he was great. It never got to the point where it was boring. He was telling good

1:35.1

stories. He was given praise where the praise needed to be given gratitude where the gratitude

1:39.6

needed to be shown. But, you know, Chris, one of the, and I've said last week, there's a handful of great coaches and there's everybody else. He's one of a handful of great coaches. So they better develop another great coach to make up for the fact that Peyton's going to be gone at least for a year. And there's still a slim chance that it may not even be that, although I think that's a very slim chance. Right, I hear you. It's a huge loss. I mean,

2:00.9

even though we kind of knew or it felt like it was coming, it was still shocking. Like yesterday, you were the first one to text me to say that it was coming. Like, oh, wow, Peyton, you know, Sean Bayton. It was still big news. I'm sitting there studying film, watching games, going, damn Sean Payton's not going to be in football.

2:17.1

Holy cow.

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