Pete Carroll - Sean Payton right coach to get Wilson on track

INDIANAPOLIS — Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton said Tuesday at the NFL scouting combine he's not going to spend much time on all of the turmoil that surrounded quarterback Russell Wilson in the last year.

Roughly 90 minutes later, Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said Payton is the right coach to get Wilson back on track.

Payton, who had dinner with Wilson and others including Hall of Famer Joe Montana, in Arizona during Super Bowl week, said he has exchanged some texts with Wilson as well and that two will talk more in the weeks ahead before the Broncos open their offseason program in April.

Payton said Wilson had also been in contact with former New Orleans Saints quarterback Dree Brees, who had five 5,000-yard passing seasons and 12 4,000-yard passing seasons in Payton's time as the Saints' head coach and offensive play-caller.

As far as Wilson's office space on the second floor of the team's complex that Wilson had used throughout the year, Wilson's personal coaches being around the team and all the items that have been part of critiques since Wilson threw for a career-low 16 touchdown passes in the Broncos' five-win season, Payton said he won't expend much effort with all of that other than to make it clear how he wants things done.

«Me and this team… I'm going to park the car with no rearview mirrors,'' Payton said. »… We've got to get past all those difficult things… If they have success last (year) I don't think the upstairs meeting room means anything, I don't think it matters, I didn't see any articles from any of you prior to Week 1, Week 2, when that was happening. That's what happens when you lose, everything gets looked at closely.

«We'll have a way of doing business and it will be what I'm familiar