Sean Payton needs simplified NFL betting coverage: ‘Wherever you may’t carry a gun’

Sean Payton is fed up with the NFL’s playing insurance policies. 

The Denver Broncos coach tore into the league’s clarification of the playing guidelines, claiming the supplied materials was too difficult. 

To make the boundaries loud and clear for his gamers, Payton in contrast the playing coverage to the NFL’s gun guidelines.  

“You possibly can’t wager on NFL soccer, ever, ever, ever,” Payton stated, according to USA Today. 

“I don’t give a (expletive) what it’s. The opposite factor is, it’s the identical because the gun coverage. You possibly can’t wager on nothing for those who’re at your facility, your resort, your airplane. So, wherever you may’t carry a gun, you may’t place a wager.”

On Monday, Broncos’ second-year defensive lineman Eyioma Uwazurike was suspended indefinitely for betting on NFL video games final season. 

Uwazurike, 25, is the most recent perpetrator within the league’s current crackdown. 

The NFL indefinitely suspended free agent Demetrius Taylor and the Colts’ Isaiah Rodgers and Rashod Berry in June –– all three gamers positioned bets on NFL video games through the 2022 season. 

Nicholas Petit-Frere, offensive sort out for the Titans, was additionally suspended, however for six video games, after betting on non-NFL games from the team facility. 

Uwazurike, the tenth NFL participant to be suspended for playing exercise since April, is unable to return to Denver for no less than a 12 months.

“Disgrace on us,” Payton stated. 

The Broncos’ first-year coach was reportedly pissed off with the league’s dealing with of the playing insurance policies earlier than Uwazurike received dealt his punishment. 

In line with USA Right this moment, Payton “primarily tore up materials concerning the coverage that the league despatched to the crew through the spring” and advised the crew’s vp of soccer operations and compliance, Mark Thewes, to place collectively a clearer, easier model to be handed out. 

In June, the NFL announced it is reinforcing its gambling rules and making it a requirement for rookies to attend schooling periods of the league’s playing insurance policies. 

NFL officers shall be visiting groups to emphasise and make clear the foundations. 

Gamers are given these official tips to comply with: Don’t wager on the NFL, don’t gamble at your crew facility or whereas touring with the crew, don’t have somebody wager for you, don’t share “inside info,” don’t enter a sportsbook through the taking part in season and don’t take part in day by day fantasy soccer.