Sean Payton Just Can't Stop Himself From Taking A Shot At Us

Go to you-tube and listen to the Pelissero clip on the rich eisen show regarding how we came to draft JJM at #10.

Very interesting for sure.

Well, since "Peyton" doesn't play anymore, nor coach in the NFL, I doubt he cares about the Vikings being screwed over.  I could be wrong though.  

He’s just trying to save a bit of that smug, pursed lip face of his. He had to settle for QB#6. Atlanta taking Penix just threw a wrench in the works and all bets were off at that point. Atlanta caused the Vikes to move up 1 spot more than anyone. The threat of the Raiders jumping up was problem #2. I would have considered the Saints and Seattle bigger threats than Denver after that. Denver had no ammo.

Talking about sean peyton, or was this a dig at my spelling?

Ok....

I saw this full quote from him on a Broncos site and it's interesting. When I read the whole thing, he's basically admitting he thought Giants might take McCarthy. Then, Broncos, Vikings, and Raiders would have to make moves to get Penix or Nix. Three teams fighting for two quarterbacks.

But then Giants pass on McCarthy only to see Atlanta take Penix. So it ends up the same but with McCarthy/Nix still available. He never makes mention of Vikings or McCarthy because he doesn't want to admit Broncos lost out on a golden opportunity to get McCarthy. He only mentions worrying about the Raiders once the top five QBs were gone.

Maybe he wasn't taking a shot at Vikings. He was being facetious about being "actively involved in pretending", laughing about it because he knew it wasn't true. The later explanation shows his real thinking and I would bet Broncos, Raiders, and Vikings all were in contact with the Jets to make a move for McCarthy.

After the fact, why admit it? Of course they want Nix (and the fan base) to think he was their guy all along. In full context, I find myself cutting the guy a little slack:

"I was actively involved in trying to pretend we were moving forward. (laughs) In other words, it’s this time of the year. It’s difficult—we want to keep our options open. I would say this for a normal position—and we talked about it—when we’re entering the draft, you might have needs at [pass] rush, edge, tackle or receiver. But when it comes to something this specific relative to the quarterback, you just don’t want others to know that this is their focal point. Oftentimes, you hear this, ‘Well, if they don’t get one here, they can go back and get this one.’ I heard those same comments—when the Chiefs selected [QB] Patrick [Mahomes] and you go back and tune into everything, it was said, ‘Well, they could have got him later.’ No, they couldn’t have. Let’s not worry about—and we all understand managing the draft, but let’s worry about what it’s going to look like three years from now. Three to four years from now, this class will be judged. Make sure we get the right guy there. I agree 100 percent. We were talking about a couple moves and then when Atlanta took Penix, now it was like, ‘Holy cow. Do we have to go up?

So we were paying attention to where the Raiders are. It was a tough 10 or 20 minutes. New York was the team. If New York took a quarterback, we knew then—if the three in the front took theirs, New York would have been the surprise team, and then there’s three waiting for two. Once New York cleared, I’m sure every team we are talking about felt all right. Then Atlanta took a quarterback and that’s the fun part about the draft. You can’t dive into everyone’s draft room to know how they feel about someone."

- Sean Payton (via Broncos PR)