A few thoughts on OC
You're very right in that. However one thing that worries me....is that Mickey stood up in his press conference half way through the season and said " I believe with all my heart that we've got the right people in the building. I know we do.""
And that one sentence scares the crap out of me....For 2 reasons. 1. Firing Carmichael is a direct admittance that the right people were not in the building that you believed with all your heart......UNLESS!!!!.......2. Curry was always the plan for OC.
Then Curry....the guy already in the building becomes the de facto savior while keeping Mickey's pride in tact because the answer.........that you believed with all your heart......really was in the building.
Even though you didn't believe he was capable of calling plays outside of one preseason game during a year our offense was atroicious for the majority of the year.
Like I said. Just start fresh. Get a guy that will completely rid of us payton and his offense.
Get Griese. He's a young guy. He has seen and partook in the best offenses the nfl has ever seen.......and he has seen them evolve. Give him a shot. He understands how to make players work in an offense. And if it doesn't work oh well....we tried
It's not like a GM is going to stand up in the middle of a season and say "we don't have the right people in the building so we are likely going to suck for the rest of the year." I think people often get too bent out of shape about what Loomis says when a large part of his job is public relations and many of his statements are intended for the general public, not people on this forum who live and breath Saints football. Despite what some think, Loomis isn't dumb, he knows there are issues on the team and with the organization, he just doesn't always agree with all of us regarding what those issues are. But, it does appear clear that he knows the offense needs to be changed.
I think Curry is the fall back position, if they can't get the guys they want then they will turn to Curry. And, honestly, none of us know if Curry is a good OC or not. Truthfully, the Saints don't even know that. But, they would know if he has some new ideas that are different from what Carmichael did and I would think that Curry has to know that whatever Carmichael did, or didn't do, is what got him fired.
Still, I think they want to go with a new system and new blood at OC, but you need to have a fall back position in case that doesn't work. I do like Griese and Kubiak as OC candidates. But, it's also a dangerous game to wait for guys still in the playoffs while other potential candidates go to other teams. But, maybe one of those guys was their guy the entire time. I tend to think they really wanted Pitcher, but that's just a guess on my part.