From April 26, 2022:

Ahead of the 2022 NFL Draft, Morten Andersen sat down for an exclusive interview with his old friend and fellow New Orleans Saints legend Sean Payton.

Topics:

• How does Coach Payton feel different since retiring earlier this year

• The one thing he was looking forward to most after retiring

• What brought him to retiring at this point in his football career

• Looking forward to finalizing his TV contract – to be a studio analyst – being signed within the next four days

• On the Tom Brady-Dolphins rumors, and why he had no prior knowledge of any of it until The Boston Globe story was published

• On the Dallas Cowboys rumors, and why prior history with a franchise is not the only thing he would consider before coming out of retirement for a coaching job

• How the league can improve with minority hiring on the head coaching level, and why he thinks Stanford’s David Shaw will be given an NFL opportunity one day

• Why Dennis Allen was the right hire for the Saints

• The state of the New Orleans Saints ahead of the NFL Draft, and why he thinks they have the culture to be a winning franchise right now

• Which positions the Saints will be targeting in this year’s NFL Draft

• What his draft philosophy is – need vs. grade, and finding the balance between the two

• High praise for Deonte Harris