{"id":475898,"date":"2023-01-08T05:55:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T05:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=475898"},"modified":"2023-01-08T08:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T08:22:43","slug":"broncos-have-been-granted-permission-to-speak-to-sean-payton-as-denver-looks-at-ex-saints-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/broncos-have-been-granted-permission-to-speak-to-sean-payton-as-denver-looks-at-ex-saints-coach","title":{"rendered":"Broncos have been &#8216;granted permission to speak to Sean Payton&#8217; as Denver looks at ex-Saints coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints have granted the Broncos permission to interview Sean Payton for the open head coaching job in Denver, ESPN first reported Saturday. The Broncos are seeking to replace Nathaniel Hackett, who was fired on December 26 after going 4-11 in his first season on the job. Denver are 4-12 entering Sunday&#8217;s finale at home against the Los Angeles Chargers. Payton, 59, stepped aside as head coach of the Saints in January after 15 seasons. The Super Bowl winning coach has been linked with the job on Twitter since the Broncos made a change. Because his contract has not expired with the Saints, they would be due compensation from any team that advances to the contract negotiation stage with Payton. In 2019, he agreed to a five-year extension which keeps him in contract with the Louisiana franchise until the end of the 2024 season. ESPN said that by an NFL ruling, any team that wants to interview Payton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints have granted the Broncos permission to interview Sean Payton for the open head coaching job in Denver, ESPN first reported the bombshell news Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nfl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}