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The New Orleans Saints have lost their head coach, Sean Payton. Jerry Jones was asked if Mike McCarthy would be the Cowboys coach in 2022.
Jones has thought a lot about the fact that you don't have to connect a lot of dots to see him coaching the Cowboys.
If Jones is going to be fair to Mike McCarthy, he needs to either trade for the Saints or say McCarthy is his coach. That will not end speculation. Between now and when the regular season starts, there is a lot of talk.
If McCarthy gets ripped by some for winning one Super Bowl with Rodgers, why doesn't the other guy get knocked for it?
McCarthy went to the playoffs nine times with the Green Bay Packers. Three of the nine times that Payton went to the playoffs, he went to the Super Bowl.
McCarthy will be looking over his shoulder all season. Every loss will be analysed by the Payton prism. The development of the man will be evaluated through the eyes of the man.
WWSPD will be about what would Sean Payton do?
The Saints had a.500 winning percentage, five 10-win seasons and one playoff win from 1967 to 2005. The Saints had a.617 winning percentage from 2006 to 2021.
The man is just 58 years old. He admitted to being exhausted following a season in which his team relocated to Fort Worth for a stretch because of a Hurricane and saw his replacement, Jameis Winston, get hurt.
The Saints had a chance to make the playoffs until the last week of the season.
The relationship between Jones and Payton is well known.
When Jones was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Payton said that he had done so many things for the Dallas Cowboys. The network, Jerry. Jerry, you are growing the game. That is how he thinks.
Bill Parcells was the Cowboys' coach for three seasons. He almost left the Raiders after the 2004 season, but Jones and Parcells persuaded him to stay.
Parcells said when he was Dallas coach that Sean gets it. He is a terrific listener because he knows what is important. I have a high regard for him, he is very bright and creative. I do.
After the Saints won the Super Bowl, Jones put a bottle of Caymus Special Selection cabernet sauvignon on reserve for his yearly staff dinner at St. Elmo Steak House.
Jones received the empty bottle the next night.
A good laugh was had by all and they laughed even harder after the server knocked the bottle over.
There have been many rumors of a return to Dallas for Payton.
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Adam Schefter doubts Sean Payton will be an NFL head coach in 2022.
He owned a house in a Dallas suburb. He was a coach at Liberty Christian in Argyle, Texas, in the year he was suspended by the NFL for his involvement in the Saints bounty scandal. Depending on who you talk to, the Cowboys and Saints had discussions about whether or not Sean Payton would return to the Cowboys at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, not long into the tenure of Dallas head coach.
If he could have waited to be Parcells, he would have been linked to the Cowboys more than once during the regular season.
There was no time frame. So, some of you guys in the media, you have been here for eight years, so was he not going to the Cowboys?
