How mad were the coaches about the new overtime rules?
Mad. I just posted a story on SI.com about an hour ago, of Sean Payton ripping not only the decision by the owners, but how it was implemented. He told me that, “I hate it. They snuck it through the back door on us. They know we didn’t want it.” He said, “I was with seven coaches at the time of the vote on the golf course and including me we were all eight no votes.” So they are upset. I sort of ended my story by saying in essence welcome to the world: owners own and coaches coach. This was a great example of that. It was also a good example that these owners want to show that they were a united front and going into the negotiations with the players that 28 of them didn’t agree with this deal still voted for it. I believe there was a message that was sent yesterday by the NFL and by Roger Goodell to the players that basically said that, “This isn’t just about this rule, this is about us showing the fact that we are behind our commissioner and we are going to remain that way in negotiat
