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Payton breaks from coaching (frequently) to put squeeze on press

If there is one thing we've learned about Sean Payton it is this: He's Sean Payton, and you're not.Brett Favre is coming to town. So is Adrian Peterson. So is that Vikings defense.One of the first things on Payton's mind after a blistering beat-down of Arizona last week? Being a smart-ass. Waving that little finger in the media's face.

He lectured the media about the perception that New Orleans is a finesse team. That's what you're worried about when the Super Bowl is within spitting distance? You don't obsess over the number of calories in a Krispy Kreme. You just inhale the sucker.
But that's why he's Sean Payton, and you're not.

It wasn't always like this. Payton wasn't always atop Mount Olympus, belching lightning bolts at the kingdom below. He didn't always believe the football world should worship at the spirals of his playbook. Sean the Magnificent was once a laid-back guy who treated everyone around him with respect. When Payton was an assistant coach with the Giants, I covered him, and saw a shy and smart man with great potential. Since then, something's happened. Even Brian Billick thinks Payton is smug.

Now, Payton acts like a man who believes he should run a team, run the media that covers his team and control the message, too.He has a singular and much larger purpose to worry about, like, oh, a shot at the Super Bowl. Yet Payton seems just as concerned with the trivial, things outside the scope of his purview as a coach.

This is one of my favorite Payton stories: In 2007, a Saints beat writer wrote a story about a player who was going to miss an upcoming game. The writer asked the player if he was going to participate in the game and the player said he wasn't. At the time, Payton claimed the player would indeed play.So the writer wrote the accurate story -- not playing. The following day, around 8 a.m., the writer received a call from Payton, and Payton cursed out the writer calling him a "negative f---" about a half-dozen times before hanging up

Payton calling up writers to berate them isn't unusual. It has happened many times before. Telemarketers are less intrusive.These aren't just garden-variety media squabbles. These are indications of something else, like a despot syndrome. Or possibly, despite Payton's talent, there is a thick haze of insecurity settled around him like a moat around a castle.While the media ranks in popularity next to drug dealers, prostitutes, Dick Cheney and Simon Cowell, they are nevertheless conveyors of sports news. Without the journalists that cover the Saints, all fans would get is Kafkaesque nonsense from the official Payton politburo.

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They really are just jealous ...Whats it gonna be after he has his next press conference? .."Payton run up thr score on Brett Farve...How dare him"

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Payton should call him and ask, "Hater, how are you??" ...or prank him and tell him his credentials have been revoked.

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Like I said in another thread, I think it's more than being jealous. They are doing every thing they can to manufacture this stuff. We're not providing them the motivational "dis" the media provided for them last week when they played Dallas. They fed of that last week and they're starving this week.

They can't find anything so they just make something up.

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I just looked this guy up - he had to resign from the Indy Star for lying on his resume a while back. What a hack!

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That's great! Gotta link? We can make sure his inbox is flooded with comments about that.

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I smell Gator Bait

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My pleasure!

True Lies: Freeman Resigns Indy Post Due To False Resume

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Shall I say ---- HAAAATERS IN daHOOOOOUUUUUSSSEEE!!!!

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So, if you go to his page on cbssports you can email him. I did!!!! everyone else should. Let's make him apologize! Don't forget to mention the U of Delaware.

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thats nothing, this is how a coach should deal with media when hes unhappy...

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What a tool. I let him have it.

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or that he had to resign a while back for lying on his resume.

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He had to resign because he lied about getting his degree of U of D when in fact he went there for four years and never got his degree. and when you read his articles you begin to realize why he never graduated.HA HA!

Bump this thread if you have emailed him. Nothing vulgar, just bash him with the truth. He won't see it coming.

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I was at that game but ya know what? That was a long time ago. That was a different team with a different coach, although I still love Jim Mora. Sean Payton knows how to coach in these situations & he & his team will take every advantage of home field & the BIG stage as the talking heads like to call it.

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I replied to the guy alright.

"I have to be honest with you on your article about Sean Peyton. It was really, REALLY bad. I think a coach has the absolute right to keep certain members of the media out of practices, press conferences, or sidelines, because many, like yourself, only seem to dig up the dirt on people for the sake of your jobs. I'm a former journalism major, and I had aspirations to be a sports writer. I am so glad I changed my mind after the media circus that the sporting world has turned into. I know it has always been biased, but this season has been absolutely ridiculous. The media loves to take its shots at players, coaches, and teams that are not deserved, yet it loves media whores such as Brett Favre and Rex Ryan. It is almost sickening. You couldn't find any dirt on the Saints to add a twist to the upcoming NFC Championship, so you decide to take cheap shots at a coach who is only trying to protect his team from the negativity that the media spews out on a consistent basis just to make their story interesting. Your credibility is in question, also. Weren't you fired from the Indy Post for lying about your resume'? Who is to say you aren't making all this up? So, next time you decide to take cheap shots, remember those skeletons in your closet. If you point your finger at someone, there are three more pointing back at you."

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Niiiiiice!!!!!;)

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http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/applause.gif

Well said, my friend! Well said!

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WHO-DAT!

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People who have nothing often attempt to speak ill of those who have much.

My first thought is who gives a ratsass what that guy thinks. He is a nobody.


Try not to give a douchebag the benefit of the doubt. They don't deserve it.

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he's an ass. the media thinks "how dare people question us". **** him

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Hmm - Thde meida manufacturing stories or trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill to get stupid people to watch.

I know - they can run a story about SP ebing a womanizer & teaching Tiger everythig he knows.

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What a tool. I'm sure he wasn't happy with my E mail

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This dude is just plain awful.

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I just hit him up on twitter. Also saw he got in trouble a while back for calling WVU "hicks and hillbillies." He's just fills his columns with inflammatory statements to cover up his lack of writing skills or journalistic integrity.

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Hey Mike really ???? C'mon man

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He won't apologize, and why should he? I wish all MORONS would take his lead and just let you know that they're idiots up front, the moment you meet them. It'd save us alot of headache later on.

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Here's my email to him:

Mike,

"You call this journalism? I could train a chimp to write better than this crap. You're a pathetic excuse for a journalist, it's no wonder you have to fudge your resume to get jobs. Why don't you stick to writing about the game instead of launching smear attacks? My guess is that Payton showed you up or something, and you, like a *****, took it personally. How's my aim?"

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Washington Post? Redskin fan maybe?

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My email to him

F**K U

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Belichick a genius. Payton cocky... Wow, how the world turns..