Go Back   New Orleans Saints Forums - blackandgold.com > Main > Saints

Saints head coach sets tone for his team with legendary game-day intensity

this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Sean Payton compares coaching to teaching. Great ball coaches, he believes, are inherently great communicators and instructors. And during game week, the New Orleans Saints head coach employs a professorial demeanor at practice and during meetings. He rarely raises his ...

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 09-09-2018, 09:26 AM   #1
Threaded by SmashMouth
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Mandeville, LA
Posts: 36,912

Blog Entries: 29
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Rating: (0 votes - average)

Sean Payton compares coaching to teaching. Great ball coaches, he believes, are inherently great communicators and instructors.
And during game week, the New Orleans Saints head coach employs a professorial demeanor at practice and during meetings. He rarely raises his voice and spends much of his time calmly instructing players on individual techniques and responsibilities.
But on game days a visceral transformation occurs:
Professor Payton becomes Sunday Sean, a gum-chomping, sideline-pacing, hell-raising, football-coaching firebrand.
Payton's trademark game-day intensity has set the tone for the Saints since 2006. And as he prepares to kick off Year 13 of his coaching tenure in New Orleans with the regular-season opener against Tampa Bay on Sunday (Sept. 9), his animated sideline antics have become infamous around the league and legendary among his own players and coaches.
"Sean's definitely a different guy on Sundays," defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins said. "On Sunday, he's got his Juicy Fruit, and he's locked in."



During an interview this week, Payton laughed sheepishly when told his players refer to his game-day alter-ego as "Sunday Sean" or "Game-day Sean." In fact, his sideline demeanor is so notorious it has become part of the informal orientation that veteran players give to newcomers and rookies when they join the club.
"It's just who I am on game day," Payton said unapologetically. "It's what's natural and comfortable for me."
Over the years, TV cameras have caught Payton giving an earful to various Saints players and assistant coaches, most notably running back Mark Ingram and former defensive coordinator Rob Ryan.
Payton's sideline attacks are non-discriminatory. Errors of omission and errors of commission are equally egregious in his mind. Drop a ball. Jump offsides. Fail to account for the opponent's best player in pass protection. Whatever. A failure to execute mentally or physically is going to earn a sideline rebuke from Sunday Sean.
"If things don't go right on the field, you're going to hear about it, you're going to feel his eyeballs piercing through you," veteran offensive lineman Jermon Bushrod said this week before his release Saturday. "You can feel him coming after you."



read more on NOLA

Attached Thumbnails
Click image for larger version

Name:	cfe_seanpaytonarizonacardinalsatneworleanssaints2018.jpg
Views:	0
Size:	20.0 KB
ID:	12664  

Views: 999
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules

LinkBacks (?)
LinkBack to this Thread: https://blackandgold.com/saints/90087-saints-head-coach-sets-tone-his-team-legendary-game-day-intensity.html
Posted By For Type Date Hits
The Latest Mark Ingram News | SportSpyder This thread Refback 09-09-2018 11:29 AM 1
The Latest New Orleans Saints News | SportSpyder This thread Refback 09-09-2018 09:56 AM 3


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:27 PM.


Copyright 1997 - 2020 - BlackandGold.com
no new posts