It wasn’t long ago that Sean Payton was the head coach for the New Orleans Saints. The Minnesota Vikings have had a rivalry of sorts with Payton, and now he’s starting things out again as head coach of the Denver Broncos.
Depending on how you look at the reports, it could be argued that Sean Payton was not the Broncos first choice. In replacing Nathaniel Hackett – a former Green Bay Packers coach that flopped – Denver needed a presence to revive Russell Wilson. After mortgaging their future for the former Seattle Seahawks quarterback, the Broncos continued to do as much in trading a first-round and second-round pick for Payton.