Sean Payton's future, why head coach hirings are slow & conference championship preview

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton shocked the NFL world on Tuesday by announcing he would be, "stepping away," from the franchise and, at least temporarily, from the head coaching ranks.Charles Robinson is joined by The Ringer's Kevin Clark to react to the news that one of the league's best coaches was suddenly a free agent. Beyond the Dallas Cowboys, who have been rumored to be interested in Payton for years, what other teams could be interested in bringing in the Super Bowl winning coach?Later in the show, Charles & Kevin chat about why many of the head coach openings have remained vacant weeks into January. Is it a bad thing that this process is moving at a seemingly slower pace than previous years? Also, what can the NFL learn from other leagues around the world when it comes to hiring the head coach?Finally, the guys spend the second half of the show diving into the two conference title games coming up this Sunday between the Cincinnati Bengals taking on the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC and the Los Angeles Rams hosting the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC.Stay up to date with the latest NFL news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooSportsNFL.Follow Charles @CharlesRobinsonPlease support Terez Paylor's legacy:• Buy an All-Juice Team hoodie or tee from BreakingT.com/Terez. All profits directly fund the Terez A. Paylor scholarship at Howard University.• Donate directly at giving.howard.edu/givenow. Under “Tribute,” please note that your gift is made in memory of Terez A. Paylor. Under “Designation,” click on “Other” and write in “Terez A. Paylor Scholarship.”• Donate directly to the PowerMizzou Journalism Alumni Scholarship in memory of Terez PaylorCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/3zEuTQj or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	If Sean Payton could have borrowed a philosophical line from Aaron Rodgers this week, it might have
0:10.3	been that whole, my future is a beautiful mystery thing.
0:14.2	That's the wide open, anything as possible attitude Payton was selling when he stepped
0:18.1	down from his head coaching duties with the New Orleans Saints this week.
0:21.8	His coaching future?
0:22.8	Who knows?
0:23.8	Television?
0:24.8	Well, that sure sounds great.
0:27.5	Making the world a football?
0:29.1	Absolutely, but with no solid plans for anything at the moment.
0:33.6	It's an entertaining prospect, of course, you know, this thought that Payton is 58 years
0:37.9	old and rolling without a compass, setting off for unknown frontiers to recharge and rediscover
0:43.4	himself.
0:44.4	Unfortunately, it's also entirely unbelievable.
0:48.3	Especially for a football lifer who is about to experience something surely every successful
0:53.2	head coach with an ego craves, attention, affection, and an entirely open-ended pursuit that
1:00.2	won't be weighed down by having been fired or simply wearing out his welcome.
1:05.2	Make no mistake, there's no mystery in that kind of future for Sean Payton.
1:09.6	Moving forward from this point, he's going to be on the minds of every struggling franchise
1:14.0	in the league and even a few that aren't.
1:16.7	This is why the blatantly obvious dot connecting to the Dallas Cowboys was so vastly overcooked
1:22.2	when Payton broke the news of his departure on Tuesday.
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