The Fundamental Questions Facing the Saints Organization and Ownership

SWJJ said

The thing is tho, I think Loomis has done a great Job Assembling Talent.

We have a top 5 Defense and LOADS of talent on Offense.

We do NOT need a whole rebuild, we need an offensive identify.

I say fire Pete, Promote Ronald Curry and let's see if he is up to the task and go win a Championship.

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A few thoughts -

Loomis has been extremely hit or miss on talent - Bresee looks like a hit, Penning looks like a miss. But the failure to retain Trey Hendrickson and drafting Davenport/Turner as replacements set this team back years.

Top 5 D? not according to the stats and scoreboard results. The D can bully weaker teams but also suffer late game collapses. The secondary which appeared to be possibly the best the team has ever fielded has been torched at the worst possible moments. LOADS of talent on Offense? There are three players on Offense that would start on most other NFL teams - Kamara, Olave, and Shaheed (as a KR). That’s it. The entire OL would be backups. Ramczyk‘s play has fallen off a cliff due to chronic injury. McCoy and Ruiz have regressed to barely marginal starters, Penning needs to be traded to a team with better OL coaching to see if there’s anything that can be salvaged. CGM and Jimmy Graham are shells of what they once were. Carr is Andy Dalton, no better, possibly worse. He would be best suited as a backup. He is not a dynamic, takeover and win the game type of QB. He is a “maintain a lead“ game manager. It’s disappointing but to paraphrase the saying - he is what he is.

Firing PC Jr. might help. His Offense scheme is stale and painfully predictable but then be weirdly (and very illogically) super aggressive. Ultimately though the Saints may need to do a total top to bottom housecleaning. From Loomis on down - his “kicking the can down the road” style of cap management has now hamstrung the team into a perpetual mediocrity. Not being able to release or trade older players due to their contracts is now hurting the team.

Sorry this post isn’t optimistic but unfortunately I don’t see a lot of light at the end of this tunnel……