I need some of what ML is smoking if that’s true. If he does believe that and 🦌 doesn’t deliver any Lombardis, then that is his “I just need to cook the turkey” quote. He needs to be held accountable for his take in time.
I'm joking, but I think he sees similarities in him and Payton, as he said, in the things a HC does that nobody outside the organization sees. And that none of the players gave up suggests that. I know that Payton went to the NFCCG his first year, but that was with one of the all-time great QBs in a year where 10-6 got them the #2 seed. They won one playoff game and lost one. Then fell back to earth where there were multiple threads of Fire Sean Payton.
So yeah, I have to trust Loomis on that one because I'm not inside the locker room, and I was one ready to move on from Payton at one point if I'm honest. And it's also telling that all of the player complaints were on the offensive side of the ball, which was address by firing the OC. Fix the offense and you'll see a much different Saints team than we've seen in a long time. The talent is there on the offensive side of the ball. All that's missing is O-line and a good OC. That's not hard to fix.
The players on defense have always played hard for DA. He just needs a strong OC that commands an offense and Pete wasn't that guy.