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| 6th January, 2006 - 5:14 pm |  ESPN.com - The Green Bay Packers continued their search for a head coach by interviewing Dallas Cowboys assistant head coach Sean Payton on Thursday.
There wasn't immediate word on how the interview went, but most accounts said that Payton impressed officials with his intelligence and football acumen, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
Payton, 42, played quarterback in college, served as quarterbacks coach under West Coast offense disciples Ray Rhodes and Jon Gruden in Philadelphia, and held offensive coordinator positions under Jim Fassel in New York and Parcells in Dallas.
"He's the new breed guy coming up," a close friend of Payton's told the Journal Sentinel. "He's a head coach. He has no time for drama and everything else. He just wants to coach. He's interested in living a very balanced life."
The combination of Payton and Ty Detmer, a candidate to become part of Payton's staff, could ease the coaching transition for Brett Favre.
"Sean can show to Brett, 'This is where Kerry Collins was, this is where Drew Bledsoe was and this is how I got them to do what they should be doing,' " the friend told the paper. "That's one guy who could point to that."
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