{"id":485790,"date":"2026-10-05T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485790\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:38:12","slug":"dre-greenlaw-says-sean-paytons-disrespect-motivated-him-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485790\/","title":{"rendered":"Dre Greenlaw says Sean Payton&#8217;s &#8220;disrespect&#8221; motivated him on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw made a tackle on the Denver sideline in the first quarter of Sunday\u2019s win over the Broncos, he could be seen gesturing toward Broncos head coach Sean Payton while making his way back to the field. <\/p>\n<p>Greenlaw wasn\u2019t done with Payton. After the game was over, there was video \u2014 via Romi Bean of CBS News Colorado \u2014 of Greenlaw shouting while being steered away from Payton by teammate Fred Warner. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sports\/49ers\/article\/49ers-dre-greenlaw-says-big-game-fueled-sean-22461559.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told him<\/a> to get the f\u2014k off the field,\u201d Greenlaw said, via Eric Branch of the San Francisco Chronicle. \u201cThat\u2019s it: \u2018Get the f\u2014k off the field.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greenlaw\u2019s bad feelings for Payton stem from last season. Greenlaw signed a three-year deal with Denver before the 2025 season, but missed time with a quad injury and due to a suspension before being released in March. Greenlaw said Payton never spoke to him in the final weeks of the season and that the team did not inform him of his release personally, which led to him having some extra motivation for the game. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe disrespect,\u201d Greenlaw said. \u201cHe couldn\u2019t be man to man and call my phone and say, \u2018We\u2019re going to cut you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Payton said in his postgame press conference that he told 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan that he thinks \u201cthe world of\u201d Greenlaw, but it\u2019s safe to say that the feeling isn\u2019t mutual. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw made a tackle on the Denver sideline in the first quarter of Sunday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-485790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}