re: Odds that Rob Ryan is gone after the Season?

I think it is possible that there is some sort of a quiet storm brewing. Whatever Payton said to him on the sidelines at the Browns game, that was certainly real and not just chit chat or friendly coaching camaraderie.

I get the impression from Payton in his recent press conferences of a person who wants to talk, but who can't really say anything. Who measures his words, he seems so tightly zipped up all the time, like he is being careful not to let anything slip or say anything too informative. Which sometimes comes off like he's disinterested, or passive, kind of flippant, arrogant, all the common things that people say about him. But maybe it's more like, he's very tightly wound up about something on the inside, that we can't see. But one little slip or gaffe or classic Payton glib sarcastic phrase, could set off a landmine in the press, and mess up the team's season. So he keeps it really tight at the podium.