Rob Rex and the Bills.....

girlySaint said

Well the BountyGate punishments came down after we'd hired Spags, and I think we mostly got rid of Gregg because he and Payton couldn't get along and Payton didn't trust him. Remember this? Gregg Williams may have been texting Saints draft picks to someone but it wasn't me | NOLA.com

At the time, fans were also ready for something new because of the way the defense broke down in the 49ers game. The thing is, at least with GW's defense it was bend-and-not-break the majority of the time, and a good offense got us more wins than losses. For the past two years the defense has been break break break. It's unfortunate that the best defensive coordinator we've had under Payton couldn't have also been one of Payton's best friends so that he'd have job stability for life.

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I think the falling out with Greg was because of Bounty Gate, Sean found out about it right before the 2011 season and I think that's when the trust issues developed.

Greg was informed he was being let go before the end of the season (or at least knew about it) and I think that's why we saw the results we did in that playoff game.

If the pay for performance thing doesn't happen and doesn't continue to happen then we would never be talking about wanting to move on from Greg I believe.

Goodell's completely unnecessary discipline was the crushing blow to us moving on.

This period of time literally killed this team and everything Sean and Loomis had built from 2006-2011.

Everything that has happened since has been a reaction to trying to overcome that.

If you think about drafts going in different directions, especially the 2012 one, the team we could have potentially built on defense.

Even hiring Spags was a reactionary hire to trying to get as far away from Greg as possible.