^^^^^to me it was all one bad media leak. It was false from the get go, they felt stupid so they used the "no one wants to coach for Al Davis" syndrome and say Payton turned it down. But I look at it this way Payton got demoted from play calling in NY and is an assistant to Parcells so why wouldn't he want the opportunity to coach(play devils advocate, even for Davis).
I mean no where was it ever announced by the Raiders organization or even hinted by the team, yet every sports caster thought they came up on some info, which proved to be false. Like I said I think davis has someone in mind right now but he is gonna have to wait till the season is completly over to talk to some personell that is on the super bowl team, and if they don't want the job he'll narrow it down from there.