Sean Payton had a night to forget against the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday Night Football in Week 6.
On the same night that Payton confused fourth down for third down and called timeout to help the Chiefs kick a field goal before halftime, the Denver Broncos’ head coach also had a large part of his play sheet broadcast on national television.
This blunder is not necessarily on Payton. TV networks shouldn’t show a close shot of a team’s play sheet, but Amazon’s Prime Video cameras gave football fans a 4K view of Payton’s plays on Thursday night.
Here’s a sampling of how Twitter/X reacted.
— Josh Norris (@JoshNorris) October 13, 2023
Defensive coordinators seeing Sean Payton’s play sheet
pic.twitter.com/XnHa2wSGIp https://t.co/kWy5Fups8F
— Sourdeath Sam (@SourdeathSam) October 13, 2023
Hmm Spygate was just ahead of game 😉
— Jay Kapoor (@JayKapoorNYC) October 13, 2023
Using Dots instead of check marks ✅ to mark off the plays bothers me irrationally and I don’t know why https://t.co/g7S0UuQAEa
— Tyler Fransen (@tylerjfransen) October 13, 2023
https://t.co/EgCEY5IxfV pic.twitter.com/HEZX1S2Vy9
— Tom Downey (@WhatGoingDowney) October 13, 2023
People say Payton is trash but he’s putting out a masterclass in tanking right before your eyes. One of the best performances in the history of sports. https://t.co/sBbcsYDDXF
— Brad Reynolds (@OrangeCrush01) October 13, 2023
"You can copy the whole Denver Broncos playbook!"
"Why would you want to?" https://t.co/g68rS4ILCl
— Pat Lynch (@patlynchsports) October 13, 2023
Did anyone notice in Sean Payton's play sheet it says Red Area instead of Red Zone.
I know he specifically means from the 20 to the 14 but i still find it funny. pic.twitter.com/6VF6q70b3S
— Jacobo Zakay (@JacoboZakay23) October 13, 2023
Sean Payton is a joke. First of all you need to rename all your plays because you showed your play sheet on tv. Secondly over half this sheet calls for 22 personnel which according to PFF they have only run on 5% of plays. FRUAD! pic.twitter.com/APlKCdY3mC
— John Kelley (@jpkelley222) October 13, 2023
I found a photo of the other side of Sean Payton's play call sheet: pic.twitter.com/mSVRL8Wn0f
— Sam Monson (@PFF_Sam) October 13, 2023
Sean Payton’s plays are now public knowledge.
“22P ALLSTATE” – play call specific for Mahomes.
“22P Google” – only tech company to make it to the sheet.
None of these plays work so not a big deal .. pic.twitter.com/eguatCWv6e
— Vivek Ponnaiyan (@viveksworld) October 13, 2023
Knowing Sean Payton… he's gonna lose his goddamn mind when he finds out how much of the play sheet — with the dots and his notes — made it onto the broadcast.
YIKES. https://t.co/tEcUzbYz1S
— Amie Just (@Amie_Just) October 13, 2023
This how bad of a job Amazon did with the camera work… dawg how you show his plays!? 😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/G1IJDFdsB1
— It's Cris to you. (@DaFuturMrKc) October 13, 2023
The Broncos went on to lose 18-9 in Kansas City. Payton might want to spend some time during the team’s unofficial mini bye this weekend to update some of the names of the team’s plays after Thursday’s mishap.
