Arizona Cardinals head teaching candidate Sean Payton joined FS1’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd for his weekly phase, and after discussing a wild weekend of playoff soccer, he was requested about his present scenario as the most well liked teaching prospect within the NFL offseason.
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The previous New Orleans Saints head coach confirmed interviews are certainly beginning for him this week, as Tuesday is the day these are allowed to start out. Payton famous he will probably be talking with the Houston Texans, Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers in his first week.
The Cardinals did obtain permission to interview Payton and presumably are hitting cleanup in Payton’s lineup order of interviews.
Payton then answered a query on what compensation would appear to be in a commerce between the workforce that acquired him and the Saints. He mentioned he had talked about this with New Orleans common supervisor Mickey Loomis, and that this yr it appears like a mid-to-late first-round decide.
The Cardinals’ first-round decide this yr is No. 3 general, assuredly too excessive of a value of Arizona to pay, nevertheless it does have picks Nos. 35, 67, 105 and 179 as effectively and will embody future draft decisions too.
Cowherd proposed the 2 most essential components of Payton’s resolution coming right down to possession and the quarterback, a sentiment Payton agreed with. The Tremendous Bowl-winning coach famous the groups with the most effective quarterbacks aren’t hiring as a result of reality they are going to be enjoying effectively as a result of to that.
“The workforce’s which have openings — I am not gonna say are damaged however they’ve had issues,” he mentioned. “That factor’s essential, the possession factor and philosophically. It is laborious to win on this league and it is tougher to win on this league if there are inside issues earlier than you even play an opponent.”
With that in thoughts, Cowherd questioned how legit Payton’s curiosity was within the Texans, a workforce that simply went 3-13-1. Payton confirmed his curiosity is for actual, noting how he’s aware of just a few of the important thing folks in cost, how they’ve actually good draft capital and the division provides them the chance of speedy development potential.
