Sean Payton explains social-media defense of Bo Nix against analyst

After Friday night's preseason finale, Payton was asked about his decision to say to Schwartz, who inaccurately claimed Nix doesn't "push the ball down the field all that often," this: " Always easy to tell who works at it and who doesn't ."

"That was crazy wasn't it?" Payton told reporters. "I can't help myself though. When I see something like that, I'm sorry, it's just, I have a pause and then it's like, 'What are you watching?' Just watch the tape. Here's the thing though. I think — and this is for any player — sometimes when you're on the East Coast, you don't see, whatever, but when you get to see. . . . I remember the first time I ever saw a Percy Harvin or Adrian Peterson, it was completely different than — so to see someone live and to actually watch them is. . . .

"Getting back to your question relative to — they're just — you guys grind at it, but now you have so many variations. You've got the basement podcast with the beer logo and I just couldn't help myself with that one. It was silly. Everything was the opposite of what he was saying and the worst part was he played at Oregon. I don't even know the player, so."