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Earlier today, we put together a quick take on the stuff contained in the Outside The Lines profile of Saints coach Sean Payton. Now, it’s time to mention a couple of things that were omitted.

During a two-way with host Bob Ley, ESPN’s John Barr shared the following anecdote.

“There’s one instance where a gentleman by the name of Larry Holder who used to work for CBS online, he was recently named the beat writer for the Saints for the Times-Picayune,” Barr said. “Payton has a pet nickname for him — ‘N.F.L.’ — with the middle ‘F’ standing for a commonly-used expletive that starts with the letter ‘F’. I’ll let you use your own imagination on that. But the larger point here is that Mr. Holder has done a number of stories that have rubbed Payton the wrong way, and that he was branded a dissenter. Someone who’s negative. This is a guy who’s going to cover the team daily for the main newspaper in town, and he’s already sort of got that label on him.”

The only flaw in that analysis? Barr never interviewed nor tried to contact Holder. That’s what Holder told PFT when we (wait for it) contact him.

“He did not try to interview me,” Holder told PFT regarding Barr.

OTL profile on Payton omitted two key interviews | ProFootballTalk

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