I do enjoy him blaming the current GM as well (and throwing shade on the Jets) ...and its totally everybody elses fault for allowing Russ' team in the building. Nothing to do with Russ...
“That wasn’t his fault,” Payton said. “That was the parents who allowed it. That’s not an incrimination on him, but an incrimination on the head coach, the G.M., the president and everybody else who watched it all happen.”
“It doesn’t happen often where an NFL team or organization gets embarrassed,” Payton told Bell. “And that happened here. Part of it was their own fault, relative to spending so much fucking time trying to win the offseason — the P.R., the pomp and circumstance, marching people around and all this stuff.”
I do think he is a 100% correct about the pomp and circumstance...but I don't think you need to say it out loud.“We’re not doing any of that,” Payton said. “The Jets did that this year. You watch. Hard Knocks, all of it. I can see it coming.”