Was the Saints' Front Office (e.g., Loomis) Fleeced on the Sean Payton Trade?

Treybad said
Yes we should have gotten the same deal that was made for Belicheck and nothing less

Then he simply doesn't get traded and we end up getting nothing. The revisionist history I'm seeing by a lot of posters is not too surprising, but it's definitely not realistic. No one was gonna trade for Payton for 2 firsts, not even Denver.