Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Thomas Payton worked in insurance. Casualty claims, specifically. Because of that, Sean Payton said his father raised him with as little danger as possible. The Paytons had no trampoline, growing up in Naperville, Illinois. No swimming pool. No motorcycle. Thomas Payton’s kid knew every possible sharp corner that existed in their home. And maybe — just maybe — it explains why he reads his play-sheet the way he does, 62-year-old Sean Payton said. “When I was younger, we’d run a reverse on the 8-yard line and then think nothing of it,” Payton recalled. He was a 30-something offensive coordinator in New York then, and his next...
