ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos formally introduced Sean Payton because the staff’s latest head coach Friday.
Payton formally signed what sources instructed ESPN was a five-year contract Friday, however Payton has primarily been on the job since Wednesday, together with interviewing potential assistant coaches for his workers.
In a press release Friday afternoon Broncos proprietor/CEO Greg Penner referred to as Payton “an impressive chief and Tremendous Bowl champion with a superb offensive thoughts” and added “he shares our dedication to successful championships for Broncos Nation and we’re excited to welcome him as our new head coach.”
Penner additionally added “it’s uncommon in any sport to rent a head coach with Sean’s credentials and we recognize the first-class method through which the Saints approached this course of. We additionally appreciated the chance to fulfill and study from the opposite extremely certified, excellent coaches we interviewed. Our aim was to determine a powerful chief for the Denver Broncos who is targeted on successful, and we discovered him in Coach Payton.”
Payton, who spent 15 seasons as New Orleans Saints head coach and was the NFL’s Coach of the Yr in 2006, shall be formally launched at a press convention on Monday morning. He replaces Nathaniel Hackett, who was fired Dec. 26, simply 15 video games into his first yr with the staff. Hackett had been employed in January of 2021, eight months earlier than the Walton-Penner group’s buy of the Broncos was formally authorized by the NFL.
Penner had mentioned within the days that adopted Hackett’s dismissal he needed the Broncos’ subsequent coach to be “a powerful chief for this group that is centered on successful. That begins with tradition. It is instilling a way of accountability and self-discipline.”
These have been all attributes Penner mentioned Payton had.
Payton was 152-89 with the Saints together with a win in Tremendous Bowl XLIV over the Indianapolis Colts and then-quarterback Payton Manning. Payton didn’t coach within the 2022 season when he labored as an analyst at Fox and was suspended by the NFL for the 2012 in wake of an investigation of a bounty program the NFL mentioned the Saints had in place for tackles on opposing gamers.
As a result of he had signed an extension with the Saints, in 2019, that was set to run by means of the 2024 season, the Saints and the Broncos needed to negotiate compensation for Denver to signal Payton as their head coach. The Broncos traded this yr’s first-round decide – twenty ninth total – and the Broncos’ second-round decide in 2024 to the Saints to rent Payton because the Broncos will obtain the Saints’ third-round decide in 2024 as properly.
Payton shall be tasked with repairing the league’s lowest scoring offense in 2022 as quarterback Russell Wilson completed with a career-low 16 landing passes and was sacked a career-most 55 instances. The Broncos have missed the playoffs seven consecutive seasons, have fired three head coaches – Vance Joseph, Vic Fangio and Hackett – since January of 2019 and kicker Brandon McManus is the one participant on the present roster who was in uniform for the Broncos’ final playoff recreation – their Tremendous Bowl 50 win to shut out the 2015 season.
Below Payton’s course the Saints gained at the very least 10 video games 9 instances, led the league in passing 5 instances as quarterback Drew Brees topped 5,000 yards passing 5 instances.
Payton initially interviewed with Broncos officers Jan. 17 and was the fifth of eight candidates initially interviewed within the first wave.