Sean Payton Not Happy With Growing Trend In NFL Broadcasts
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Sean Payton is tired of the NFL's cameras zooming in on coach's call sheets.
After Amazon's crew got an up close shot of Payton's sheet during Thursday night's broadcast of Broncos-Chargers, the Denver HC sounded off on how invasive the league's "eye in the sky" can be.
"I think — No. 1 — I don't like the fact that the network TV cameras feel like they can zoom in to our call sheets, but it is what it is," Payton told reporters after a photo of his handwritten "Run It!!!" note went viral.
"It's just a reminder sometimes," the coach explained. "They'll be little notes we'll put at the top of — I'll put at the top of a section. I felt we ran it real well early in the game [in the] first half. The second half there were two series I kind of kicked myself where even when we did run it, it was the type of run we ran that wasn't as effective."
Sean Payton wrote "RUN IT!!!" on his play sheet pic.twitter.com/MowKbdQkNq
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It doesn't seem like its anything that networks are going to stop unless the NFL explicitly outlaws it. Several years ago, a similar situation popped up with former Bears head coach Matt Nagy who typed "BE YOU" in all-caps at the bottom of his.
"One of the reasons why it's there is because when you get in some difficult challenges or moments in the game where you might start questioning of why you're doing what you're doing or what play call you're making or whatever," Nagy explained back in 2018.
"You don't sit there and stare at it all the time, but you know it's there. You might flip it over and it just might be a little brief reminder of 'don't get away from where you've gotten to.' ... It's everywhere in my office. It's everywhere I go," he said.
Do you like being able to see into coaches' gameplans in real-time? Or is it something the NFL should take a look at?
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