The long term implications are that we have unlimited money available and have been more than willing to spend whatever on whoever and that it's hard to win in this league. A bad bounce, a few injuries and some boneheaded plays / coaching decisions are the difference between 12 wins and 7.
Whether DA eventually wins is something we don't know, but after losing an all time great QB and our coach, it's pretty easy to understand what's happened the past 2 years and given the injuries and bad bounces it is what it is.
Some of you guys would be down on Loomis and DA no matter if we won 10 games this year and given the level of mediocrity that CSP tolerated and built on D for a decade it's amazing the credit he gets when with any decent D we win 2 or 3 more superbowls.