During Monday night’s loss to the Vikings, ESPN cameras appeared to show a verbal exchange between Saints HC Sean Payton and Adrian Peterson. Payton also denied any confrontation.
However, both Payton and Peterson downplayed the situation and denied that any confrontation took place.
“I could’ve said, ‘I love you,‘” Peterson said, via Josh Katzenstein of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. “But it’s no issue. We have bigger fish to fry.
A league source tells Mike Florio that Payton acknowledged that there was an interaction, but that he interpreted Peterson’s words in a “positive way.