Worst Saints Coordinator (offense OR defense) of all time

I would have liked to see Spagnuolo and Payton on the sideline together for a season before considering him. His defenses since then have been fine.

It's so very tempting to vote for Carl Smith here, but the front office gave him 248923894234 running backs and 2 wide receivers, plus zero pass-catching TEs, during his time with the Saints. Figuring out that entire era of Saints football is grody.

It's also tempting to pick Carmichael, but I don't get the feeling he'll be around much longer. Two years of being the guy on his side of the ball isn't enough to sway me.

I've seen some write-ins for Abramowicz but safe money says Ditka meddled in that offense way more than he should have, given how out of touch he was with how football had evolved by the time he came back to the sideline. Ditka saw Ray Zellars in a #34 uniform and all but treated him like he was Walter Payton. If you told me Zellars was anything other than a very nice person trying hard to do his job well, I'd be surprised, but Walter Payton he was not.

How Rick Venturi sneaked onto this franchise's coaching staff for three different head coaches genuinely perplexes me. Success evaded him the way good pass rushers evade blocks (which they rarely did under his tutelage!). I don't know who the player is you point to and say, "Rick Venturi had that guy playing lights-out, he was a real difference maker on the defensive side of the ball." Recency bias is the only explanation I can draw for why Spagnuolo has 3x as many votes as Venturi does. Venturi should be dominating this poll.