AFC East

The Miami Dolphins were prepared to pay Sean Payton how much to coach for them?

By Zach Barnett Sean Payton is great at drawing up plays. But his greatest talent? Getting people to scheme up league-altering hypothetical moves for him. As the story goes, Sean Payton was thisclose to being traded to the Dallas Cowboys, in what would've been the first coaching trade since Jon Gruden was dealt from the Oakland Raiders to the Tampa Bay Bucs in 2002. The deal was ready to go in late January 2019, fresh off the Saints' controversial loss to the LA Rams in the NFC Championship, until Anthony Davis announced he wouldn't re-sign with the New Orleans Pelicans. The Pelicans managemen…