What the Sean Payton Stepping Away Means
The MMQB NFL Podcast
SI NFL
3.9 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week’s news that Sean Payton would be stepping down as head coach of the Saints came with a fair amount of shockwaves. Conor (the man who predicted it) and Gary break down what it all means for the Saints, for Payton, and for a handful of coaches who will likely enter 2023 on the hot seat (sorry Mike McCarthy, but we’re looking in your direction).
Then, a preview of Conference Championship Sunday. Can Ja’Marr Chase go off again—and do the Bengals need him to if they’re going to pull off the upset? Does it matter that the Chiefs can’t protect Joe Burrow? And how many snaps will Blake Bell take?
On the NFC side, do the 49ers continue with their magical run? Does Kyle Shanahan continue to have Sean McVay’s number? And is the Rams offense ready to fire on all cylinders again?
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| 0:28.1 | See in store for T's and C's. Hello and |
| 0:35.0 | Gere Geregore are you're going to the MMQB NFL podcast. I'm Gary Gremlin. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Connor Oort. |
| 0:40.0 | And Connor, your oracle powers a few weeks ago, they were going off. |
| 0:45.0 | A shining type of thing is how I like to picture it. |
| 0:50.0 | But you were getting some vibes from, uh, however from the earth from the uh from the universe that maybe Sean Payton would not be long for that Saints job and here we are a couple of weeks later and Sean Payton has indeed stepped down. |
| 1:05.2 | It's a pretty fun stuff. I don't know if you remember I was talking to somebody about this show yesterday. |
| 1:11.1 | Did you ever watch Crossing Over with John Edward? |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah, I believe I've accused you of being John Edwards. |
| 1:18.2 | Oh, okay. Perfect. Yeah. So this was good. This felt like... Because I imagine that John Edward goes out some days and he's just like I'm I'm hearing from a from a Peter and then nobody in the audience brings anything up and then he's like, oh shit, I'm in a lot of trouble today. |
| 1:33.0 | That's most days in the prediction business, I would say. |
| 1:37.0 | But every now and then a blind squirrel finds a nut. |
| 1:40.0 | And that was our Sean Payton column that we wrote a couple weeks ago. |
| 1:45.0 | All right, so let's talk about the Saints first and then we'll talk about the larger |
| 1:50.0 | impact because certainly we haven't seen the last of Sean Payton on an NFL sideline at |
| 1:54.4 | this point but the Saints are in boy just a rough spot right now because if you go |
| 2:02.1 | back to last season I would argue they were probably |
| 2:06.3 | probably not definitely but probably a Jared Cook fumble away from from hanging on against the bucks and going on to the |
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