Sean Payton obliterates Jets, Nathaniel Hackett in bombshell interview

Inform us how you actually really feel, Sean Payton.

The brand new Denver Broncos head coach torched predecessor Nathaniel Hackett in an interview with USA Today, the place he opined on the present Jets offensive coordinator’s disastrous stint in Denver final 12 months and the way the fireworks present in Florham Park may doubtlessly backfire this coming season.

“However all people’s bought a bit of stink on their arms. It’s not simply Russell (Wilson). It was a (poor) offensive line,” Payton advised the paper. “It may need been one of many worst teaching jobs within the historical past of the NFL.

“That’s how unhealthy it was.”

Hackett lasted just 15 games in his rookie season in Denver, the place he teamed up with a Tremendous Bowl-winning quarterback in Wilson, who was traded to the Broncos from the Seahawks in a March 2022 blockbuster.

Wilson produced the worst season of his profession underneath Hackett’s tutelage, throwing a career-low 16 landing passes to associate with 11 interceptions.

“There’s a lot dust round that,” Payton stated. “There’s 20 soiled arms, for what was allowed, tolerated within the fricking coaching rooms, the assembly rooms. The offense. I don’t know Hackett. Lots of people had dust on their arms. It wasn’t simply Russell. He didn’t simply flip. He nonetheless has it.

“This B.S. that he hit a wall? Shoot, they couldn’t get a play in. They have been twenty ninth within the league in pre-snap penalties on either side of the ball.”

Payton additionally ripped Hackett for permitting Wilson’s private quarterback coach, Jake Heaps, entry to the group constructing and for holding gamers out of preseason video games and one-on-one observe drills.

“That wasn’t (Wilson’s) fault,” Payton stated of Heaps being allowed facility entry. “That was the mother and father who allowed it. That’s not an incrimination on him, however an incrimination on the pinnacle coach, the GM, the president and all people else who watched all of it occur.”

Payton added: “All the pieces I heard about final season, we’re doing the other.”

Hackett, who served because the Packers’ offensive coordinator earlier than taking the highest job in Denver, is now reunited together with his former Inexperienced Bay quarterback, four-time league MVP Aaron Rodgers, in New York.

Very similar to the Broncos, who entered the 2022 season with playoff-level expectations following an offseason stuffed with hype, the Jets are in an analogous place with Rodgers, 39, now on the helm.

Payton, 59, cautioned how “Dream Groups” could not have the ability to ship the wins a championship-starved fanbase is anticipating.

“It doesn’t occur typically the place an NFL group or group will get embarrassed,” stated Payton, who was hired by the Broncos in January following the group’s disappointing 5-12 season. “And that occurred right here. A part of it was their very own fault, relative to spending a lot (expletive) time making an attempt to win the offseason – the PR, the pomp and circumstance, marching folks round and all these items.”

“We’re not doing any of that. The Jets did that this 12 months. You watch. ‘Arduous Knocks,’ all of it. I can see it coming,” Payton stated. “Bear in mind when [former Washington owner] Dan Snyder put that Dream Workforce collectively? I used to be on the Giants [in 2000]. I used to be a younger coach. I assumed, ‘How are we going to compete with them? Deion’s [Sanders] there now.’ That group gained eight video games or no matter. So, hear… simply put the work in.”

Payton will get to see that “work” for himself when the Broncos host the Jets on Oct. 8.