It really wouldn’t be absurd, there’s not being perfect then there’s making countless bad decisions over recent years. Of course, Payton carries as much blame for a lot of the following but he’s no longer here:
1. Had about 5 years to prepare for Drew Brees’ retirement and the best he could do was saddle us with Jameis Winston.
2. Traded a likely top 10 pick when we didn’t know what we had at QB.
3. Some really bad misses in the draft (Turner, Ruiz the main ones).
4. Spending two 1sts on Marcus Davenport.
5. Hired Dennis Allen.