Is There Really A Mickey Loomis?

I don't believe ML is the evaluater/personnel guy that most think he is. What I mean by that is... when haz was here our personnel decisions were based on measureables... you know... "big and fast" guys that lacked the football IQ that was needed to win in the NFL.

Now we go out and get good locker room guys and "payton-type" players via FA and the draft.

My point is... we went from one end of the spectrum to the other with these decisions... and the whole time we only had one GM. Here's what I think...

I think the HC tells ML which players to target... and ML does what he need to do to get them here.

This is Haz and payton's team... ML simply crunches the numbers to make them fit into money slots... and I'm wondering how much of that he does because Russ Ball is the MAN... and I'd hate to lose him if he ever gets his call to be a GM with another organization.

I think ML is good at what he does. I'm not blaming him for last year... i think all of those moves were on the HC and his scouting dept.

Why then the discrepancy?? To me, last year's draft looks almost identical to the Haslet drafts...we got some "prospects" who aren't starters. Contrast that with the 2006 draft, and we see a huge difference in players who started right away. To me it surely looks like the 2006 draft was conducted by some other people, and last year they reverted to the same people who did the previous 5-6 drafts.

The 2006 draft was extraordinary by ANY SAINTS DRAFT STANDARDS! We never had a draft like that before! New coaches, new faces, and they hit the bullseye! Was it luck? Or somebody else had an outside influence? The thing is, last year we reverted back to our old ways......and that is sad, considering the potential the team has!