Sean Patrick Payton was born on December 29,1963 and is an American football coach who is the head coach for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League and a former quarterback.
52 Facts About Sean Payton
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Sean Payton 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.
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Sean Payton has always been known for his offensive prowess, having scored more points and gained more yards than any other team in a coach's first 100 games in NFL history.
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Sean Payton had the second-longest NFL single-team tenure among active head coaches, behind New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, who has coached the Patriots since the 2000 season.
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In 16 seasons with the Saints as head coach, Sean Payton helped guide the team to three NFC Championship games, a victory in Super Bowl XLIV, and nine total playoff berths with seven division titles, making him the most successful coach in Saints franchise history.
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Sean Payton filed an appeal, but was denied, and was reinstated in January 2013.
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Sean Payton was born in San Mateo, California, and raised in Naperville, Illinois, by parents Thomas and Jeanne Sean Payton.
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Sean Payton's parents were originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania; Thomas worked in the insurance industry.
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Sean Payton lived in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, during his grade school and middle school years.
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Sean Payton attended Naperville Central High School in Naperville, Illinois, starting as quarterback his senior year before graduating in 1982.
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Sean Payton was a member of the Chicago Bears squad of strikebreaking replacement players, known as the "Spare Bears", during the 1987 NFL players strike.
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Sean Payton was sacked 7 times for 47 yards and had one rush attempt for 28 yards.
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Sean Payton began his coaching career in 1988 as an offensive assistant at San Diego State University.
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Sean Payton made a series of assistant coaching positions at Indiana State University, Miami University, Illinois, and again at San Diego State, before landing a job as the quarterbacks coach with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1997.
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Sean Payton coached Marshall Faulk from 1992 to 1993 while working at San Diego State.
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From 1997 to 1998, Sean Payton was quarterbacks coach for the Philadelphia Eagles and worked with offensive coordinator Jon Gruden and offensive line coach Bill Callahan.
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In 1999, Sean Payton was hired as the quarterbacks coach for the New York Giants and was promoted to the role of offensive coordinator in 2000.
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Sean Payton recalls this moment in his autobiography Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life.
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Sean Payton joined Bill Parcells and the Cowboys as an assistant head coach and a quarterbacks coach in 2003.
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Sean Payton guided three different quarterbacks to 3,000-yard passing seasons, while contributing to improve the passing offense from a 31st rank to 15th in the league.
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Sean Payton has been attributed as the primary factor for the team signing undrafted free agent Tony Romo in 2003.
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Sean Payton began his first head coaching assignment in 2006, with the New Orleans Saints.
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However, Sean Payton turned the struggling team around, and, with newly acquired free agent quarterback Drew Brees, led them to their first playoff appearance in six years.
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In June 2010, Sean Payton published a book entitled Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life.
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On October 16,2011, while coaching against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Sean Payton broke his tibia and tore his MCL in a collision with tight end Jimmy Graham's helmet after Graham was tackled on the sideline.
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Unable to stand on the sidelines, Sean Payton coached from the booth during rehabilitation.
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Sean Payton agreed to a new multi-year contract extension as head coach of the Saints, beginning in 2013.
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Sean Payton agreed to a new five-year contract extension as head coach of the Saints on March 23,2016.
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On Christmas Eve 2016, Payton notched his 94th victory as Saints head coach, passing Jim E Mora as the winningest coach in franchise history.
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On September 15,2019, the Saints and Sean Payton agreed to a five-year contract extension.
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Sean Payton was fined by the NFL for not properly wearing a face mask, as required for coaches during the COVID-19 pandemic, during a week 2 game in the 2020 NFL season on September 22,2020.
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An extensive league investigation found that Sean Payton was implicated in the Bounty Scandal.
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Sean Payton became the first head coach in modern NFL history to be suspended for any reason.
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On March 30,2012, Sean Payton lodged a formal appeal of his suspension.
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Sean Payton used the hearing as a chance to get clarification on the terms of his ban.
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Sean Payton was to remain suspended until the end of Super Bowl XLVII, which was held in New Orleans.
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Sean Payton was barred from even casual contact with anyone in the NFL; any such contact would have to be reported to NFL executive Ray Anderson.
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In September 2011, the Saints and Sean Payton agreed to extend Sean Payton's contract through 2015.
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However, on November 4,2012, the NFL revealed that it had disallowed the extension because it contained a clause the NFL deemed to violate its rules, which would have allowed Sean Payton to leave if Saints general manager Mickey Loomis were not with the team.
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Sean Payton used a simplified version of the Saints playbook, and the team went unbeaten until they suffered a loss near the end of the regular season to a team that ran the single-wing, which his team was unable to stop.
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The teams indeed faced one another in the league finals; Sean Payton's team lost a considerably closer game in which they were able to slow down the opposing offense.
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In January 2023, Sean Payton interviewed for head coach vacancies with the Denver Broncos, Carolina Panthers, Arizona Cardinals and Houston Texans.
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On January 31,2023, Sean Payton reported that he had accepted the Broncos job.
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Sean Payton was officially hired by the Denver Broncos three days later.
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Two of Sean Payton's executives became general managers in the NFL:.
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Sean Payton was in talks to join Amazon's NFL coverage before accepting the role.
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Sean Payton met Beth Shuey, an Indiana State University graduate, while coaching there.
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The home, like many built on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, later turned out to be constructed with defective Chinese drywall, and Sean Payton eventually became a named plaintiff in a widely reported class action lawsuit against the manufacturer, Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co.
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Rumors swirled over the 2011 Super Bowl weekend that the move would coincide with Sean Payton returning to the Cowboys as the General Manager or in some other executive capacity, but these turned out to be groundless.
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On November 10,2019, at the end of the Saints vs Falcons games, it was announced that Sean Payton had gotten engaged two days prior on November 8 to his girlfriend, Skylene Montgomery.
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On March 19,2020, it was reported that Sean Payton had tested positive for COVID-19.
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Sean Payton became the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the NFL.