Broncos coach Sean Payton recently coached one of the teams of current and former NFL players (with a stray YouTuber or two) against the U.S. men\u2019s national flag football team.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t go well for the non-flag players.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, that was humbling,\u201d Payton said Tuesday of the experience during the AFC coaches\u2019 breakfast. \u201cYou remember the Home Alone series, and Macaulay Culkin was inside [the house]. Macaulay Culkin was the international team, and I felt like [Kyle Shanahan and I] were the two guys outside getting hit in the head with the iron and tripping over the garden hose. It\u2019s an entirely different game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Payton was likely Harry, which would mean Shanahan was Marv. <\/p>\n
\u201cListen, it was kind of cool to be around those guys,\u201d Payton said. \u201cThat was a big deal. I think when this first was announced, there was this feeling there would be 10 NFL players on [the 2028 U.S. men\u2019s Olympic] roster, and I\u2019ll be surprised if there\u2019s one. I just think we have plenty of players that can acclimate, but it\u2019s going to take a month or two. Then if you\u2019re one of those players, do you have that month or two? If you\u2019re training for that, you\u2019re not training for. . . .\u201d<\/p>\n
In the transcript supplied by the Broncos, Payton didn\u2019t finish the thought. But it\u2019s obvious \u2014 if you\u2019re training for flag football, you\u2019re not training for tackle football.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the ultimate question. Will tackle football players make the commitment necessary to train for flag football, at the risk of undermining their preparation for the version of the game that pays the bills?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos coach Sean Payton recently coached one of the teams of current and former NFL players (with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-557356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}