Shock rippled through Roy Banks as the oblong ball wobbled on the ground toward infamy.
Broncos Journal: Does Sean Payton’s first team in Denver have depth to withstand regular-season rigors?“I said, ‘This fool, he really did it. He really called that play,’” Banks told The Post. “He had a feeling for it because it was unexpected. I saw it at EIU and it was the same thing. But you’re on the biggest stage. You’re going to call an onside kick in the Super Bowl?It might be going too far to say Payton consciously revisited that moment when he made the Super Bowl-swinging decision.
“Have you ever done something that, you’re so excited after you’ve done it once and you can’t wait to show somebody?” he asked rhetorically earlier this summer. “… That’s kind of like winning a championship. You’re addicted to it. There is just nothing like it. It’s borderline obsessive.
But Payton was also always learning, especially from Bishop, who died last summer but whom Payton considers among his foremost mentors. “He had that swagger at that time, like, ‘OK, shoot, we’re going to figure this out and we’re going to have fun doing it,’” said Deland McCullough, a running back there who now coaches the position at Notre Dame. “He was strong.”
“Then law school for me was with Parcells in Dallas. That was a higher education, a much broader education of being a head coach.” His game-week preparations are the stuff of legend. When the Broncos arrive back at the Centura Health Training Center on Wednesdays after their day off during the regular season, they can expect a detailed opponent breakdown at the start of the team meeting.“All week long, you’re hearing different ways and versions — Wednesday it’s first and second down install, what he’s thinking,” longtime Saints safety Roman Harper said.
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