Sean Payton (remains with Saints)

Originally posted by gold49digger:
Can we lock this... no point in this thread anymore.

Agreed. Here's the last post - http://espn.go.com/blog/san-francisco-49ers/post/_/id/16895/sean-payton-no-longer-a-coaching-target-for-49ers

I totally knew that. Such big dreamers the WZers are.....

Originally posted by TonyStarks:

lol at the blood flying in from that angle when the dude is right in front of him.

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
I totally knew that. Such big dreamers the WZers are.....

We have to dream big because our owner thinks small.

lol

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

I totally knew that. Such big dreamers the WZers are.....

Hey everybody, sanDiego knew this. He's the winner. He's the big winner here. Everybody acknowledge how smart he is.

While not likely, the door is not totally closed on Payton yet. At least as of now, there has been no contract extension between the Saints and Payton. He still has 2 years remaining on his current contract and the Saints are not shopping him at this time. It appears the 49ers were the only ones really pursuing him. Payton's statements left enough room like "I'll be here as long as they'll have me," "This is where I plan on coaching and I don't envision coaching somewhere else", etc. It is possible that the 49ers and Saints couldn't agree on compensation today, so Payton had his press conference. But, like any trade, maybe the parties circle back to each other in a few days. For example, maybe the 49ers come back and go harder after Payton after conducting a few more interview in the next few days.

Again, it's not likely, but stranger things have happened, and nothing has really changed since this morning. Payton is still the Saints coach. The 49ers still have interest and an opening.

Originally posted by fropwns:

I logged in just to say that all of these posts, made me laugh like an invalid. Kudos!!

Originally posted by jimmythegreekjr:

It's ok..We still have Geep Chryst to fall back on.

That's not funny!

thank god, great news

however I could see this coaching search ending up almost as bad as the last one, if this were Baalke's top guy like many think, it's not off to a great start

Originally posted by Rascal:

Originally posted by ronniefreakinlott42:

Originally posted by Kolohe:

Originally posted by okdkid:

Armando Salguero @ArmandoSalguero
Let there be no mistake, Sean Payton was open to leaving New Orleans. But interest in him, with compensation, not what he thought it'd be.

Da fuq did he want $100 mil for 10 years.

Not what he wanted, what Loomis wanted. That whole 2nd rounder rumor was a farce. Gruden trade set precedent and no team is willing to mortgage their future.

Exactly, I remember when this Payton thing first started, I said it would be to expensive if is anything near the Gruden deal and people were saying no man it would be far less like a mid-round pick. Nah, no way. Why would Loomis let Payton go when they have the No. 1 Passing O in the league? All they have to do is to fix the D.

According to some on here, we were going to get him for a 4th . I don't agree with Rascal on much, but I 100% agree on this.

Originally posted by JDMathews49ers:

Originally posted by Rascal:

Originally posted by ronniefreakinlott42:

Originally posted by Kolohe:

Originally posted by okdkid:

Armando Salguero @ArmandoSalguero
Let there be no mistake, Sean Payton was open to leaving New Orleans. But interest in him, with compensation, not what he thought it'd be.

Da fuq did he want $100 mil for 10 years.

Not what he wanted, what Loomis wanted. That whole 2nd rounder rumor was a farce. Gruden trade set precedent and no team is willing to mortgage their future.

Exactly, I remember when this Payton thing first started, I said it would be to expensive if is anything near the Gruden deal and people were saying no man it would be far less like a mid-round pick. Nah, no way. Why would Loomis let Payton go when they have the No. 1 Passing O in the league? All they have to do is to fix the D.

According to some on here, we were going to get him for a 4th . I don't agree with Rascal on much, but I 100% agree on this.

The logic there is if Payton wanted out. If he wanted to leave the Saints then they would have to take whatever they could get. Clearly he didn't want to leave that bad.

Originally posted by Young2Rice:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
I totally knew that. Such big dreamers the WZers are.....

We have to dream big because our owner thinks small.

Yes he does. You are right about that.