Sean Payton Pulled A Bill Parcells And It Worked Beautifully (For The Broncos)
September 23rd, 2024
Broncos CB Pat Surtain.
Broncos coach Sean Payton apparently took a page straight from the Book of Motivation, written by Bill Parcells. It worked like a charm in the Broncos’ beatdown of the Bucs yesterday.
Parcells once gave Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor a pair of plane tickets to New Orleans during a game week and told Taylor to give the return ticket to Saints linebacker Pat Swilling — because Swilling would play harder and get more results.
This enraged Taylor who took his frustrations out in his next game.
Payton, who served as Parcells’ offensive coordinator in Dallas (and worked with Todd Bowles there), pulled a Parcells.
In leading up to the Broncos-Bucs game, Payton did the same stunt with Pat Surtain, who Payton wanted to cover Mike Evans. Payton told Surtain, per Ryan McFadden of the Denver Post, that maybe he needed to trade him to New Orleans for Marshon Lattimore because Lattimore knew how to stop Evans.
The result? Evans had three targets yesterday, catching two passes for 17 yards. Evans was basically a non-factor.
Denver’s head coach told Surtain about the success Saints star Marshon Lattimore had against wide receiver Mike Evans, and jokingly said he might have to call New Orleans head coach Dennis Allen about exchanging cornerbacks for a week.
Surtain got the message. After he struggled in a Week 2 loss to the Steelers — he was penalized twice with a 16-yard catch allowed to George Pickens — Surtain locked down Evans in a 26-7 win Sunday in Tampa Bay.
Shadowing the star wideout on 24 of 34 routes (70.6%), Surtain allowed just 1 reception for 8 yards on one target as the nearest defender in coverage, according to Next Gen Stats.
“He responded,” Payton said. “…No trade.”
Joe tends to side with Bowles here. First off, tip o’ the cap to Surtain for doing a good job. But the guy isn’t Deion Sanders.
Bowles pointed out Evans faces every team’s top corners each week and finds a way to make catches. Bowles isn’t wrong.
Joe leans more toward Liam Coen not finding a way to adjust to scheme Evans open more. Of course, Baker Mayfield seemed slightly rattled or just plain off after his early pick — for which Evans was the target.
Maybe it was that? Maybe Mayfield didn’t have time to throw to find Evans?
It was just a sad, sad game all around. Too many people had rotten days.
“My Coach of the Week is Sean Payton. The @Broncos were winless with a middling offense through two weeks. They won the coin toss, Payton opted to take the ball first, and they set the tone and never looked back. A season-saving win and a huge statement.”
–@pschrags pic.twitter.com/T8p6BY29MV— Good Morning Football (@gmfb) September 23, 2024
September 23rd, 2024 at 12:33 pm
Tough (for me) to figure out what went wrong. Everything? Felt for all those fans in the stands.
September 23rd, 2024 at 12:37 pm
Sean Payton beat the Bucs 38-3 in the big sombrero. Then beat the Bucs again, and won the NFC South. They embarrassed the GOAT both times, humiliated him.
When the money was on the line
Where were Sean Payton and the Saints?
The Bucs and the GOAT beat the dog crap out of them in New Orleans
And went on to win the Super Bowl
The moral of this story…… one bad game don’t make a season
I got the Bucs to win the NFC South
September 23rd, 2024 at 12:38 pm
Obviously Baker struggles with vision between the line due to his (not short) but shorter than most qb stature.
He definitely seems to have a key concept in his head and play to that concept. He (or the game plan) didn’t find Godwin last yr. The 1st couple weeks he couldnt find Otton. Now he can’t find Evans. Sheesh. He admittedly doesn’t have a bunch of time behind the line right now. But he really seems to have a hard time feeling where his options are and getting back to them.
Yeah, I don’t know sh*t about playing qb. But the trend shows me he finds the guy that’s the focus. And has a hard time finding options before making a run for it. He has had good escapability up until yesterday. But his pocket presence, despite being touted, doesn’t seem to be exceptional under Cohen and this O Line.
September 23rd, 2024 at 12:45 pm
herro?
September 23rd, 2024 at 12:45 pm
RVA what pocket of which do you speak> There was no pocket yesterday.
September 23rd, 2024 at 12:47 pm
frigging bucs……
they are not professionals. punks with an attitude, then get an ego and get worked.
September 23rd, 2024 at 12:49 pm
Sean Payton Pulled A Bill Parcells And It Worked Beautifully (For The Broncos)
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Things have gotten soft in the NFL. WOKE won’t work in the NFL it will only destroy it.
September 23rd, 2024 at 12:51 pm
This Week: One coach actually motivated his team. One coach, “Had an excellent week of practice and spoke to his team about not being complacent.”
Last Week: One QB stresses the Bucs out. One QB has more fun.
We’re learning this team is soft.
September 23rd, 2024 at 12:53 pm
Payton has had the Bucs number for years this is nothing knew for fans that have been around for years. We all know the battles when he was the Saints coach. All we be forgotten when we beat the Eagles and get some of our dogs back from Injury. Looking at you Vita, Winfield and Kancy.
September 23rd, 2024 at 12:54 pm
Yesterday’s loss has nothing to do with X’s and O’s and schemes and abilities. The players simply (by their own admission) did not come to play.
September 23rd, 2024 at 1:09 pm
Evans can’t catch if you don’t throw it to him.
September 23rd, 2024 at 1:23 pm
Had the Lions D Line been as disciplined as the Broncos by cutting off Mayfield’s escape route the Bucs would be sitting at 1-2.
Broncos also shut down the go to check down to White when all else failed.
Up side is Bucs are 2-1 and pretty much where they figured they would be worse case @ week 3. Down side is there is now tape with a blueprint on betting the Bucs.
Averaging 219.5 yards of total offense the last two weeks tells me the Bucs really got a keeper with Coen. Do they play the Commanders again?
September 23rd, 2024 at 1:35 pm
The two deep safety defense invites quick slants over the middle. Not sure why the Coen didn’t consistently go with these and force the safeties up. In the 4th Q Bucs finally threw under the zone for easy 5 -7 yards completions. With a depleted O line and the safeties laying deep it was pointless to try to throw the ball down deep. Should just take what defense allows. Hope this was a lesson learned.
September 23rd, 2024 at 2:27 pm
our great defense guru didn’t seem to do well yesterday –so he points the finger at the OC for not getting Evans the ball
September 23rd, 2024 at 3:12 pm
captivajim Says:
September 23rd, 2024 at 2:27 pm
our great defense guru didn’t seem to do well yesterday –so he points the finger at the OC for not getting Evans the ball
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Probably because he was asked about Evans lack of catches.
BUT
Coen is looking like a chump all of a sudden. Baker regressed/played like a rookie. The entire O-Line was shaky at best – Mach, Barton , Bredeson and Wirfs….all of them.
Todd’s bend but don’t break philosophy got exposed. Defense looked slow, blitzes (ours) easily blocked/countered.
Hopes for the season aren’t gone but there is A LOT of work to be done and my optimistic outlook has taken a serious hit.
September 23rd, 2024 at 3:49 pm
Todd Bowles said Coen was on his level if that’s true we can expect 3-4 more clunkers
September 23rd, 2024 at 5:16 pm
Coen is proving there’s a huge difference between designing plays successfully and calling plays successfully.
He’s had no answer the past 2 weeks. None.
September 23rd, 2024 at 6:27 pm
It’s one freaking game with both offensive and defensive lines dismantled (loss of our RT and J Skule being the replacement is like having Rt and RG missing) that’s what made the win in Detroit so impressive.
September 23rd, 2024 at 7:15 pm
I went to watch the game at a local sports bar (I’m in TX and it wasn’t on any station for me)…..I FORGOT TO HANG MY BUCS FLAG ON MY HOUSE AS I ALWAYS DO. THAT is why we couldn’t get anything done.
My bad, never again this season.