Sean Payton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Sean Payton

American football player and coach

Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1963

Place of Birth: San Mateo, California, United States

Profession: American football player, Canadian football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Sean Payton

  • Patrick Sean Payton (born December 29, 1963) is an American football coach and former player who is the current head coach of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL).
  • Payton was a quarterback at Naperville Central High School and Eastern Illinois University and played professionally in 1987 and 1988.
  • He began his coaching career as offensive assistant for San Diego State University and had several assistant coaching positions on college and NFL teams before being named as the tenth full-time coach in Saints history in 2006.
  • Payton has always been known for his offensive prowess, having scored more points (2,804) and gained more yards (40,158) than any other team in a coach's first 100 games in NFL history.
  • Payton has the second-longest NFL tenure among active head coaches, behind New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, who has coached them since the 2000 season. Under Payton's leadership, the Saints made the 2006 NFL playoffs after a disappointing 3–13 season in 2005 and advanced to their first NFC Championship appearance in franchise history.
  • Because of this effort, Payton won the AP NFL Coach of the Year Award.
  • Following the 2009 season, the Saints won their first Super Bowl championship in franchise history.
  • Since joining the Saints as head coach, he has helped guide the team to 3 NFC Championship games (2006, 2009, and 2018), an appearance in Super Bowl XLIV, and 8 total playoff berths with 6 division titles, making him the most successful coach in Saints franchise history. On March 21, 2012, Payton was suspended for the entire 2012 NFL season, originally set to take effect April 1, 2012, as a result of his alleged involvement in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, under which "bounties" were allegedly paid for contact that would "knock out" targeted players on opposing teams.
  • Payton has denied that any program encouraging Saints players to injure opposing players ever existed, even though the NFL claims their evidence proves otherwise.
  • Assistant coach Joe Vitt stated "We had a pay to perform program, just like many NFL teams do, but there was never a bounty program, we didn't ever encourage a pay-to-injure program.
  • That's just not true.
  • We never crossed the line." Payton filed an appeal of his suspension with the league the Friday before it was set to take effect.
  • On April 9, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (who handed down the suspension) denied his appeal; his suspension began on April 16.
  • Goodell reinstated Payton on January 22, 2013.Payton is under contract with the Saints at least until the end of the 2020 season.
  • A previously agreed-upon extension of his contract through 2015 was voided by the NFL.
  • This left his status after the 2012 season unclear until December of that year, when he agreed to a five-year contract that made him the highest-paid coach in the history of the NFL.
  • In March 2016, Payton signed a five-year extension with the Saints.
  • In September 2019, Payton signed a five year extension with the New Orleans Saints

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