Loomis definitely has his flaws too, but from a Saints perspective, probably the best GM we've ever had, although you could make a case for Finks based on where the franchise was at the time he took over and what he had to create essentially from scratch. That's good question whether results would have been different with Loomis / Ditka. Loomis has tended to facilitate what his head coach wanted, especially early in his career - certainly with Haslett and, justifiably with Payton. I think the Loomis we have now, exerts more control over football operations with DA. I guess if, theoretically, Loomis hired Ditka, then he probably would have deferred a lot of football decisions to Ditka and we'd have similar results - at least early. I guess I'd hope that Loomis wouldn't have been dumb enough to hire Ditka in the first place! Definitely an interesting question.