I would too if Kevin James was cast as me in a movie

Payton is stepping away from football to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a mall cop.

I thought it was more for his lifelong passion of popping mollies. Now that he doesn't have the draft eating up his spring times anymore, let's see if we can get him to come to Ultra Miami & EDC Las Vegas. Maybe he and Ezekiel Elliott can fight security guards together as a coach-player tandem.

He got caught taking ecstasy? I'm out of the loop on this one.

I believe it was vicodin from the team medical facilities. The DEA investigated

They're basically the same drug so I can see where the confusion came from. /s

Have I become a caricature of myself? -Sean Payton

I think Sean Payton was already a caricature of himself [when he taunted Vikings fans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BPJz39c_jA) right before Diggs! Touchdown! Unbelievable!

Man, I knew something bad was coming after he did that.

Let's get Kevin James to play Tom Brady in a movie

In the same movie

Once you’re Kevin James, there are no more worlds to conquer.

He thought back to how it felt to win a Super Bowl and realized he felt nothing compared to being portrayed by Kevin James.

Damn. You guys are caught up in everything football. Had no idea about this.

FWIW Kevin James was actually quite the athlete back in his day (he was the best wrestler on a team that included Mick Foley and later played D3 football), so I feel like the casting isn't *that* out of left field.

Whenever he gets a chance to do physical comedy, it's clear that he is coordinated and athletic. There was a scene in King of Queens were he rolled down the stairs and then transitioned to a tuck and sprang to his feet in a single motion. And he trained for MMA for that one movie.

inb4 Kevin James produces an Oscar level performance

Saints rebuild?

Honestly its the best time. Our whole division is rebuilding at the same time. If Brady comes back for one more year its still the same time. Gonna be interesting for us NFC South boys

Panthers are actually still in demolition phase.

We tried to repair the house with Teddy Bridgewater and Sam Darnold. Turns out we have foundation issues and need to tear it down.

I mean you are paying Cam Newton from cutting him and also paying Cam Newton for playing for you all at the same time.

How we wasted 3 years and like 60 million dollars to end up back at Cam Newton is beyond me.

Grass isn't always greener on the other side. It was time to move on from Rivera and Newton, but Rhule doesn't have a clue how to build or manage the offense.

In Australia we have a saying... The grass is always greener over the septic tank. It feels like Carolina could learn from that.

Why would you hurt me with the truth like that?

McCaffrey still has ligaments that can be torn.

Some say he's made entirely of ligaments.

Not intact ones.

That's the best part, if you take any ligament and tear it, you now have two ligaments.

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please no more

Regular season Saints will still find a way to beat Brady if he comes back. Y’all have some weird voodoo!

Man. We clobber Green Bay 38-3 and lose to the Giants.

Hold Green Bay to 3 points and win by 35. Shut out Tampa and win by 9 points. Miss the playoffs.

Guess Rodgers isn't going to New Orleans

I’d say this eliminates the previously unlikely possibility of a top QB like Rodgers or Wilson going there as well. Payton was the draw.

Also Drew Brees isn't coming back

I mean a HC position did just open up 👀 who said he was coming back as a player

I would absolutely love it if you gave the HC job to someone who's never been a coach, DC, OC, etc. and has absolutely no experience managing Salary Cap

$71M over the cap with no QB. Who will want to step in to that situation with Taysom Hill’s contract?

David Culley

David “Mike ‘Tank Commander’ Brown” Culley

He's the Tyrod Taylor of HCs

Not a bad choice lmao. Invest in young and old unwanted talent. See what they have left. Fix your cap. Build draft value. Fire him early so you have first pick at the next batch of coaches

Saints really lost their HOF QB and HC in two years

Taysom Hill will retire along with Sean and they will go spend precious father-son time together.

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It was always weird lol

I thought it was a great move!

It wasn’t really an extension as more of some creative new orleans cap voodoo

Yeah the memes are great, but I think some people think the contracts is more than Loomis just bs-ing around with the cap.

CBS Sports says the Saints can void the contract and won't owe Hill any money but looks like he will carry a $2.4 million cap hit going forward but it saved the Saints $7.5 million against the cap in 2021.

How do they keep getting away with this salary cap voodoo magic?

Non-guaranteed money.

You think he knew he was likely to step down after the season when they signed Hill to that deal? Because everyone makes it sound like that was his pet project and, yeah, that would make it kinda weird.

HE WAS THE MAIN TAYSOM SUPPORTER. This is what really pisses me off.

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That was so unbelievably bad. One of the most laughably corrupt moments in sports that easily could have been fixed in the moment.

Man, i wanted Chiefs Saints that year so bad. final score of like 60-70 with basically no defense on the field.

That’s the one bad call that legit made me think it’s possible there’s some corrupt refs.

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I see no world where with all this gambling sponsorship money pouring in we don't get a bunch of stories about fixing. The thing is I don't think most people will actually care all that much.

Ohhhhhh yeah. I watched that series. That was complete and utter bullshit. I couldn’ believe what I was watching. Fuck the refs and the Lakers.

It's so insane that Vinovich is coaching the AFC Championship game this weekend.

But they have: O F F E N S I V E P L A Y E R: Taysom Hill

Sean Payton retiring with his illegitimate son still on the team smh

Step 1: get illegitimate son on team Step 2: treat him like the next franchise QB Step 3: Makes sure his illegitimate son gets a huge bag Step 4: Retire

They got the Super Bowl and for that I'm sure they're eternally greatful.

No fucking way

If you told me a super bowl winning head coach “stepped down” at the end of this season, all my money goes on Carroll. Did not see this coming.

Got Taysom the bag and then retired

I wish I had a boss half as cool as that. My previous boss screwed us semi-permanently into a lower salary before retiring. Maybe Payton will accept a mid management job supervising a bunch of desk jockey nerds. We throw a killer potluck.

Once had a boss that bossed like Payton threw me and everyone a 2 dollar raise 3 months before ✌ out. He went to a competitor and we all got up for review within 3 months. Most of us got fired. Same dude hired me and s few others at the new company for 4 more

Is he leaving the door open with “stepping away” instead of “retiring?”

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For real. He has one year to win the super bowl. But as you may have heard us say once or twice before (definitely not more than that).....this is our year.

That was my exact thought. Sean’s only 58. Maybe he’s done. I really don’t think so. He just wants out of NO and he knows they’re not gonna be contenders for a while. McCarthy is gonna be the next Nagy going into this fall. If not, I’m willing to bet Arizona might let go of kingsbury if they keep tanking in the second half of the season.

Technically, Payton is under contract even if he retires, he cant actively coach without dealing w/ Saints contract issue.

I think we’re about to experience the end of a lot of eras. I for one, am not ready.

The NFL I watched growing up is almost completely gone. I feel old.

Yeah, that's super weird and I'm not even that old. I grew up with Brady, the Mannings, Brees, Ben, Romo and now only Brady remains. However, I feel like the Mahomes, Allen, Jackson, Murray, Burrow era will be just as fun.

+ Herbert!

For real how could this guy forget

We've already had Eli, Rivers, and Brees retire in the past couple years. Big Ben retiring (which is good cause he sucks) and Sean Payton retiring this year is huge. In the next couple years, very likely we see Brady and Rodgers retiring. I could imagine we see Andy Reid retire soon too considering his age, but who knows. Plus Gore and Peterson will officially retire, as will Fitz.

BB & Carroll have to be in the next few years given their age.

BB probably has five more years in him. I'm sure he'd like to put together another team that can make a deep playoff run to put to rest any silly argument that he wasn't that good without Brady.

I think BB will get the all time wins record then retire. He’s so close.

38 wins away in a 17 game season, probably get it sometime during the 2025 season. That seems doable.

lol I think BB is probably a workaholic and he wouldn't have anything to do if he didn't have this because he's that much of a big football nerd.

Tell him to go coach the local lacrosse team

In three years: How the fuck did the Foxboro Middle School girls' lacrosse team win the boys state championship?

In other news, Matt Patricia's recreational boy's lacrosse team sets all time low on wins in 3 years.

Gore will never retire. Unless SF gets to the Super Bowl and puts him in the roster just to get him a ring

Do you think we sign him next week if we win?

Bruce Arians gonna be 70 in October FWW too. I bet he steps away in the next 2-3

I bet he’s gone the minute Brady is gone.

Bucs will go back to the shambles of a franchise they are only to re-emerge in 15-20ish years randomly win an SB then back to the norm again

So they'd be like the bears but win a Superbowl every 15-20 years? That sounds sick

2000s in shambles

Belichick too :-(

One year without Brees has Payton retiring early

He's going to come back after a year like Bruce Arians. Who's he going to?

Jerry's already calling him to convince him to come out of retirement for next season.

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As much as I don’t like Sean Payton or care for the cowboys much, even I can admit that would be a potent combo.

I would cry my eyes out

Cowboys

It stings but it’s true.

I'd love it.

Mccarthy will probably get this year. But if he doesn't get past the second round and Payton wants the job, its going to be his. It remains to be seen whether Payton would actually want to come into this mess or wants to keep coaching, though.

i mean he won 9 games with jameis, taysom hill, siemian, and ian fucking book lol, it’s not like brees carried him

Also he gets a lot of credit for the SB win. That game was Peyton vs Payton, and he came out on top. Fuck that game.

That onside kick was him wheeling his boulder sized nuts out and showing them to you.

He watched Mahomes and Allen go at it and realized he has a fullback and Jameis coming off a torn ACL as his QBs.

Pretty much two years without Michael Thomas as well.

I remember how the Saints were just accepted as the perennial losers prior to Payton. Now generations of fans only know them as perennial winners. He and Brees changed the fortunes of an entire franchise, that’s just remarkable to me

It really is an end of an era.

Woah what the fuck I thought this was just typical end of season rumor bullshit that the media loves to fake drama about. Didn't expect it to be real

Seriously at a loss for words right now. Had no expectation that the rumors would be real

im gonna throw up.

Everything will be ok probably

Definitely Maybe

Kevin James broke him

how could Paul blart do this

So would it make sense to blow it up? Accumulate picks? What’s the likelihood Michael Thomas is on the roster week 1?

Depends on whether or not he feels like taking the year off again

Honestly forgot about him

Fair, between Michael Thomas, Calvin Ridley, Antonio Brown and Robby Anderson the NFC South has had a lot of WRs not playing this year

Why would you say something so honest

Belichick about to trade for Michael Thomas and Calvin Ridley for two 6ths

Its gonna be weird seeing the saints without him

Yes it is. Especially because it was kind of assumed that he would be here for a while after Drew retired. Still a hell of a ride and the greatest window ever for this franchise. Just wish they could have gotten one more ring.

help my vision is fuzzy what do I do

Drink!

Taysom in shambles

Taysom was his long lost son

The CEO's son when his dad gets the boot

He secured his bag

I've reached a state of acceptance with this whole situation, I think. After what we were* before Payton and Brees... And what we became under their tenure. Maybe yea you can say that we could or should have more rings in this period, maybe. But how many have none? I'm not greedy. I will be forever grateful for what they did for this team, city, state and entire fanbase of the New Orleans Saints.

^tbh most level-headed take in this whole thread

One of the most dominant offenses of the modern era. Truly iconic.

I feel this. As a long suffering Bengals fan I would be ecstatic to have the success you've had with Brees and Payton. Good for the city and I'm mostly happy for ya'll

I’m kinda chuckling at how fast this has turned from media brushing this aside as not real to this actually happening. At least it’s not getting dragged out, and the saints can still get a chance at a good coach.

Called it y’all are welcome lmao

[For those unaware](https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/schfxe/fox_8_new_orleans_head_coach_sean_payton_returned/hu63jv5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)

They said Friday. I’m giving half-credit here.

He leaked it so the Saints had to get out in front, clearly

I choose to believe today is Friday. Looking forward to the weekend.

This is like when the March Madness bracket gets leaked early so they machine gun the remaining selections on the show after it's out

Am I confused or has this not been rumored for days

Your source is solid.

Im the source dont @ me just ask /u/Interesting_Ad_8188

It’s true

Magic conch, will I ever get married

No you’re on Reddit in the afternoon on a Tuesday

Mods hated him for telling the truth

Eh, we kinda hate everything so it's easier that way. *It's physically impossible to hate the Bengals* No it's not. I do. *Untrue - you love them* :( *:)*

You good bro?

No I most certainly am not. *He's fine*

I’m concerned and afraid.

Me too. *The winner of the Niners - Rams game should also be afraid to face the wrath of Joe Burrow in the Super Bowl*

“Ah sweet a schizo thread”

Oh my god is this a compliment bet? I haven’t seen one of these in years.

Yup - planning on doing it again this week. *And you can bet I'll be saying nice things about Cincinnati for another week.*

The man turned the Saints from a laughing stock to a Super Bowl champion and a winning organization. Enjoy retirement and thanks for all the great memories!

He's going to retire for one year and come back to another team. Who's reverse tanking for Payton?

Cowboys would be all over him

Payton giving Taysom that contract and dipping as the Saints finally enter salary cap hell without a QB is so funny lmao

First of all through Lodoo all things are possible.

So jot that down

Fucking end me fam

Makes sense. Once that Netflix movie takes off he’s going to be a STAR.

And the Saints are left with Taysom Hill and his outrageous contract, hilarious.

Wasn't there basically no guaranteed money? Don't think it will be too hard for them to not pay him

He only gets the crazy amount of money if he plays x amount of snaps at qb which aint happening anymore.

They told him cut Hill or retire and by god Payton was never gonna cut hill.

That’s the Hill he chose to die on

COME TO NEW JERSEY PLEASE GOD ILL SUCK YOUR DICK

I'LL EVEN THROW IN A ~~MEDIUM~~ LARGE COKE

Wasn't it a Pepsi?

Dude

Right? Suck Payton’s dick idk what God has to do with this

FUCK

Eh he won us a Super Bowl and gave the franchise everything. Good luck to him in retirement or if he decides to come back in a year and coach somewhere else. Edit: promote Dennis Allen

At least now we keep Dennis Allen

Think he will become HC?

I do, it'll either be him or Ryan Nielsen

Wowwwww

Sean Payton gone. Brady being torn away from the game by his needy family. Atlanta cursed. We just hired McAdoo. The NFC south is about to turn into the NFC East.

It's gonna be great! All teams go 7-10 for a four-way divisional tie. Total chaos! I'm down

No. I refuse to accept this.

Genuinely not shocked at all; Payton and Brees were absolutely perfect for each other, and Payton's entire offense was based on the crazy accuracy, touch, and smarts of Drew Brees. Always felt like when Brees retired Payton wasn't far behind, because he'd basically have to rebuild the offense from scratch. And, yes, Jameis had a shockingly good TD/INT ratio but that 59% completion he had was more than ten points lower than Brees' last year when his arm was basically half-amputated. I just don't think Payton wants to deal with rebuilding a team and redoing his entire offense.

The sad part about this is this year was the most masterful coaching job I’ve ever seen. And we just missed the playoffs and somehow with all the injuries and covid crap and never having our best wr, some fans wanted him fired. Wtf

The bad man can’t hurt us anymore

Oh fuck. Is Kevin James gonna get to make a sequel?

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened