Gayle is not firing Loomis, but in the abstract, you should never keep someone that is not succeeding at their job because you are afraid you can’t do better than them.
That’s how sports franchises in particular become perennial losers.
I understand that what you say above sounds good, but that doesn’t make it true.
Riddle me this, Batman:
1) So what brilliant person in the Saints organization has a proven record choosing the general manager that’s going to be better than Loomis?
2) The NFL is littered with examples of perennial losers that can’t choose a decent GM.
I‘ve yet to see evidence of Loomis being consistently incompetent especially if you believe, as I do, that the organization gave immense personnel decision making power to Payton, and that they knowingly sacrificed the future chasing a ring in Drew’s last years. That’s not incompetence; that’s just chickens coming home to roost.