Watch: Saints' Payton, Bucs' Koetter share heated postgame exchange
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I’m not totally sure what was happening here in the post-game handshake between @TBBuccaneers Head Coach Dirk Koetter and Saints Head Coach Sean Payton.#Fox35 pic.twitter.com/53B7w3GFVl
— Adam Shadoff (@FOX35Adam) January 1, 2018
Sean Payton and Dirk Koetter engaged in a postgame handshake Sunday that elicited memories of Jim Harbaugh and Jim Schwartz.
Following the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 31-24 upset victory over the New Orleans Saints, the coaches of the respective clubs met at midfield and shared a heated exchange. Payton appeared to offer one too many congratulatory pats and Koetter responded with one of his own.
It's likely any rift between the two began in Week 9 when Buccaneers receiver Mike Evans decked Saints corner Marshon Lattimore with an after-the-whistle, blindside hit.
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