Sean Payton Signs Contract Extension with Saints through 2015

Steve from Boston is also believed to be pleased!

Oh I am!! Gives me a few more years to wear him down.

Steve from Boston

Nice.

Brees is entirely focused on the Packers. He knows his new contract is coming and the Saints will make him one of the highest paid players in the league. Brees has never struck me as the type to put thoughts of money before game preparation.

Scott Cody
I wonder if Drew Brees wanted more assurance that Payton would be around long-term b4 he signed a long term deal… Payton reups through ’15

Mike Triplett
#Saints release LB Ramon Humber to make room for new TE John Gilmore

just sayin’

thems fightin’ words ;)

Payton = slow, steady decline

he might have peaked in 2009, too

I know there’s a TWSS/TWHS/TWKS somewhere in there.

No wonder Kat thinks “thems fightin’ words”. (Say it ain’t so, Coach. Say it ain’t so)

He’s moving to Cincinnati this weekend.

Especially since Canfield is included.

I’m glad to see they got Billings back and got rid of Canfield. Just think, they could have drafted Blount instead of Canfield in 2010. I suggested at the time, and I think it’s turning out to be true, that the 2010 draft was by far the worst in the PayLoo era.

He wants to win. Let’s just hope that 3-4 years from now, the Saints start putting in a plan for life after Brees.

still.. don’t see him staying longer than 5.. years are like dog years for these head coaches..

I think if Drew were kidnapped by aliens in a few years and the team managed to still field a quality team and look good (if we had our own Matt Cassel, so to speak) then Payton would stick around. If the team fell apart completely, maybe he’d look at it like, “1`I’ve done all I can here, I was a part of a rebuilding process before…let somebody else have a crack at it.”

Payton didn’t just say, “as long as Brees is here.”
He said, “as long as Brees is here and we feel like we’re in this window of opportunity.”
Implies that he might not even be planning to stay for the duration of Brees’ career.

Here is what Mike McCarthy said about his long-term future when he was questioned about it the day after the Super Bowl.
From the transcript of McCarthy’s day-after presser:

(The last Packers coach to win a Super Bowl left a couple of years later. Do you see yourself being in this job long-term? Do you see this as your last job?)
I would hope this is my last job. I’m a builder and we have built something special. This program was built the right way, has quality people in Aaron Rodgers and all the way through that are going to lead this football team for a long time. So I would definitely hope this is my last job.

When Brees is gone, he goes to work at the JerraDome?

As far as him staying as long as Brees is there, I don’t know about that. Brees may be there after 2015 and he may not play as well, or he may. Brees may continue strong like Warner and Favre, but the rest of the team may not be up to par and losing games. Even though they have a great young QB that can win games, the rest of the team may not be worth a damn. Brees or not, as long as the team keeps winning I think he stays. Once the team starts losing, I think he goes. He started out winning and I don’t think he’d hang around losers, especially as long as I hung with the Saints in their losing days.

Payton will find another QB project to groom and take over after Brees (hopefully many years from now). He’s already practiced on several young QBs, most of which he gave up on and finally cut. How long did he hold on to Tyler Palko? Was it three years? Then he brought in the extremely damaged goods that was Joey Harrington and finally gave up on him. Chase Daniel has been his biggest success so far. He’s looked pretty good the last two preseasons and seems to be learning well from Brees and getting better. Payton has already reached the goal of winning a SB. I’ll bet another goal is to train a young QB from scratch to become one of the league’s best.

If Brees is in decline (as you suggest) and gets worse over the next few years, I would expect Payton and Loomis will spend an early draft pick on a young QB and gradually try to mold him into someone very close the Drew. But, we still have some time before we have to worry about all of that.