The NFL Scouting Combine is underway, and today Sean Payton and George Paton will take center stage in the annual coach/GM pressers from Indianapolis.
A year ago in this context, Payton made a bold comment about the importance of doing a good job scouting the right players for your team — a process that begins in earnest at the Combine when teams begin meeting with college prospects they’ve been scouting.
“We’ll be really good at this,” Payton said at the end of his 2024 Combine presser. “And I think, to some degree, we’re glad that a lot of people aren’t.