Payton is not the answer, but that was not really the question.
Briggs statement was to bestow upon his impulse and thus declare after a few good wins:
“This, such a sequence of first the Elf on the shelf then a Rose by any other name is still a former MVP is........Good”
YOu know at this moment in time, yes it is “Good”. Not great, not the future but this season it is good. Rose is better than Dennis Smith. IQ is the next thing so in the course of the season things are working itself thru.