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11:55 PM ET 11.11 | A week after the NFL shot down a contract extension drawn up by the New Orleans Saints for suspended head coach Sean Payton, and the free agent rumors began to swirl, the League had granted the team permission to try and fix the language in Payton's extension before the end of the season. So if the Sean Payton to Dallas, Philly, Carolina or any of those rumors come to fruition, it will be because the Saints failed to work out the proper wording well beforehand. The whole reason the original contract extension was so publicly voided by the NFL, was because it contained language that allowed Payton out of his contract scott-free if Mickey Loomis is no longer the GM of the team. From the start of this whole mess a week ago, it seemed really unlikely that Payton would bolt for another team over the Saints. Sure, it would possibly free him of some demons when it comes to what he's had to go through this past year, but Payton's been here through the good, the bad and the ugly, and him bolting after Bountygate would be wildly out of character given how much he's invested in this unit.