Sean Payton, coach whose Saints lifted spirits in post-Katrina New Orleans, says he’s stepping down
Payton, 58, had been with the group since taking on earlier than the 2006 season. He guided the Saints to playoffs 9 occasions in his 15 seasons as head coach.
In 2009, the Saints energized New Orleans, nonetheless reeling from Hurricane Katrina 4 years earlier, on their option to a 13-3 common season document and a march to their first and, to date, solely Tremendous Bowl title.
“I do not just like the phrase ‘retirement,'” Payton stated Tuesday at a information convention. “I nonetheless have a imaginative and prescient for doing issues in soccer. And I will be trustworthy with you, that is likely to be teaching once more. … However that is not the place my coronary heart is true now.”
He informed reporters he would not know what’s subsequent in his profession regardless of reviews he may get a job in media.
“I feel I might like to do this. I feel I might be fairly good at it,” he stated.
Payton talked Tuesday in regards to the subsequent season when the Saints had a rookie coach and a brand new quarterback, Drew Brees, and went 10-6.
“I do not suppose any of us once we began, actually I did not after I began, understood the dynamics and what happened post-Katrina with that ’06 season, that … I’d argue was each bit necessary as some other season.”
Payton was suspended for the 2012 season.
