Sean Payton Went Full-Meteorologist In Discussing The Weather For Sunday's Game In Tampa Bay12/6/2018 ESPN- The Saints have unfortunately gotten used to wet and windy weather at Tampa Bay over the years. Back in 2013, they had a lightning delay that lasted more than an hour in the first half. When asked about he possibility of rain on Sunday, Sean Payton said...
"It doesn't look like it's gonna rain — it's gonna rain. It's 95 percent chance of rain. There'll be some wind, 10-12 miles an hour. We know the direction it'll head from — their locker room toward the pirate ship. I think the footing is going to be important relative to the shoes that we're wearing. Today we're outside (for practice), wet ball drills, the whole nine yards. So it's just understanding ball security, understanding the conditions. We've been there before when we were sent in at halftime to go eat oranges for a half an hour, then stretch and come back out and play. You know, it's South Florida." ------- And there you have it, perhaps the most accurate forecast in the history of the inexact science that guessing the weather, and I don't even say so sarcastically. "It doesn't look like it's gonna rain...it's gonna rain". I promise you this isn't meant as an ode to Sean Payton's preparedness like those clips of Sean McVay showing off his memory to a room of reporters that don't even realize he's acting like the kid that keeps everyone after class. Instead, what reads like a highly-detailed parody of the most unreliable of occupations is actually spoken like someone, or really anyone, that has spent more than six hours in Florida and thus knows the predictable unpredictability of it's precipitation like the back of their hand. The only way the Saints and Bucs are sneaking in that game without storm-like conditions is if they somehow fit the entirety of it into the 30 minute window immediately following the very last drop of an early afternoon shower. Be forewarned if you see that sun start to shine as it might as well be the fire to the type of alarm that can drown the whole damn stadium in 10 seconds flat. The lightning rod of NFL Head Coaches doesn't need a green screen to guarantee you that. Matter of fact, having one to point to might actually make him less believable.
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