Wednesday Afternoon Audio

I hate talk radio. I guess it has its place, If I was on a long car trip, it would help pass the time. Terribly inefficient, a lot more words than ideas expressed. On the other side, an online chat may be too succinct, causing your point to be misunderstood or extrapolated into something inaccurate.

Kenny makes a lot of sense to me, and his personality surprisingly doesn’t bother me at all. Maybe because I have no history with him. He allows that Payton learns from his mistakes. What’s not to like? Let’s hear some specific criticisms from the anti-Wilk.ites.

Put me down for this prediction: Sean Payton will allow Williams to run the defense with a minimum of interference. I believe this is true because Payton is indeed on the hot seat, and knows it. In other words, Sean Payton isn’t the boss: Tom Benson is. And just as the McCaskeys in Chicago informed Ditka when they hired him that Buddy Ryan was going to run the defense, I suspect that part of Benson’s agreement on the Williams hire hinged on Payton’s allowing Williams to run the defense.

If there are more defensive failures this season, and they’re accompanied by the slightest whiff of of an uncooperative attitude on Payton’s part, it won’t be Williams who takes the fall.

I like the trade.