All of that is very fair.
My read is that he will evaluate every opening based on its own merits. His relationship with Loomis and Mrs B and knowledge of the organization would be a huge plus.
But…
Having a QB like Herbert would obviously be a huge(er?) plus, too. Maybe bigger than anything a return to NO could offer.
The Rams would be somewhere in between. If he really wants LA, he would inherit a roster which has fallen off a cliff just as much (more?) than ours and has fewer assets to work with. So he would mostly just want to live in LA. Not to mention, the compensation we would get would be bleh.
I don’t mind being a fallback in any of those scenarios. If we’re being honest, we wouldn’t be as attractive as the Chargers job.
And if you remember…we were a fallback to Green Bay for SP the first time around. That worked out okay.