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NEW ORLEANS —The New Orleans Saints and suspended coach Sean Payton will
indeed be together again next season as the bounty scandal fades into history
and the bid to win a second Super Bowl resumes. Youth Roddy White Jersey . Payton has agreed
in principle to a multiyear contract extension, the team said. “Very happy it is
official,” quarterback Drew Brees said in an email to the AP. “Never had any
doubts.” Payton was due to begin his seventh season as the Saints head coach in
2012 before being suspended for the whole season by NFL Commissioner Roger
Goodell in connection with the NFLs bounty investigation. “I am pleased that
Sean Payton will be our head coach for a long time,” owner Tom Benson said in a
statement. “Now we can focus our attention on building on the winning tradition
with the Saints that Sean has played such a large role in.” Payton signed an
extension in 2011 worth more than $6 million a year that would have kept him in
New Orleans through 2015, but Goodell objected to certain language in that deal,
leaving Paytons future uncertain until the deal was reached Friday. The language
in question in the previous extension gave Payton the right to opt out early if
general manager Mickey Loomis left the club for any reason. The new agreement
also must be approved by the NFL. The team did not disclose the length of the
extension or financial terms. Payton is the only coach in Saints history to win
a Super Bowl, a title earned at the end of the 2009 season. But his legacy was
tarnished by the NFLs bounty probe, as Goodell ruled that Payton failed to exert
proper institutional control over a cash-for-hits bounty program run by former
defensive co-ordinator Gregg Williams from 2009-2011. Although the Saints
objected to the characterization of what coaches and players have said was
nothing more than a performance pool for big plays, Goodell suspended Payton for
the entire season. The commissioner also suspended Loomis for half of the season
and assistant head coach Joe Vitt for six games. Payton is 62-34 in
regular-season games as Saints coach and 5-3 in the post-season. During the
three seasons before his suspension, the Saints won 41 regular-season and
playoff games combined, more than any other team in the NFL. Payton has
primarily handled the offence in New Orleans, teaming up with Brees to break
numerous NFL and club records. The single-season NFL records set by the Saints
in 2011 included yards passing by a team (5,505) and a quarterback (5,476). The
Saints also set a record for total offensive yards with 7,474. Although
speculation ran rampant that Payton could essentially become a free agent after
this season and end up elsewhere, Brees repeatedly said he would be “shocked” if
Payton ended up anywhere but New Orleans next season. Brees is under contract
with the Saints through the 2016 season, and Payton was the driving force in the
Saints effort to acquire Brees as a free agent in 2006. Without Payton on the
sideline this season, the Saints missed the playoffs for the first time since
2008. Brees remained prolific, but his 18 interceptions also tied for a league
high heading into the final weekend of the season. The Saints headed into
Sundays season finale against Carolina at 7-8, hoping to avoid their first
losing season since they went 7-9 in 2007. Payton is expected to return to the
Saints immediately after the Super Bowl on Feb. 3, unless Goodell allows him to
return earlier. When Payton reports back to work, it will officially close the
book on the bounty saga that has overshadowed the Saints organization since the
NFL first announced on March 2 that it found the Saints ran a program that paid
improper cash bonuses for hits that injured opponents. In addition to the
suspensions of Payton, Loomis and Vitt, the Saints also were docked second-round
draft choices in 2012 and 2013, though Goodell has said he could potentially
restores the Saints 2013 second-round choice and dock the team a later-round
pick. Meanwhile, four current or former Saints were initially given suspensions
of varying lengths. Two current Saints defensive captains, linebacker Jon Vilma
and defensive end Will Smith, were among those suspended. Vilma was banned for
the whole season and Smith for four games, but the players successfully
challenged their punishment with the help of the NFL Players Association and
never served a game. Former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who was appointed by
Goodell to oversee the players appeals, ruled that the NFL probe was accurate in
its findings that the Saints ran an improper program and attempted to cover it
up, but that the evidence was not strong enough to warrant unprecedented
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