Cajun Cannon out and Drew Brees in working with Jim Mora

In 1998 Mora had

Payton Manning
Marshall Faulk
Marvin Harrison
Jerome Pathon
Ken Dilger
Marcus Pollard

They went 3-13 (yes they were young)

The next year swap Edgerrin James in for Faulk and Terrence Wilkins for Pathon. 13-3 but didn't win a playoff game.

2000 same roster, no playoff win.

2001 they lost Edgerrin James to injury, and replaced him with Marcus Pollard and Dominic Rhodes, but gained Reggie Wayne to go with Marvin Harrison. They went 6-10.

I'm pretty sure that they had Vic Fangio on defense throughout this time.

He had plenty of offensive talent. He, like Marty Schottenheimer, was just too conservative.

By all accounts he was a good person, and a very good regular season coach but Drew Brees wouldn't have won a playoff game with Mora.