Do we owe Mickey Loomis more credit than given?

With the games over with for a long time, Loomis is very skilled at hypnotizing the fanbase back to optimism.

It took wizardry to build a Super Bowl winner but the Saints need a different kind of wizardry now. That is, they need the magician to raise the Saints out of the mediocrity trap.

Saints have 9-8 talent and have a vet QB who instead of coming in and meeting expectations, instead looked like the latest failing audition to replace Drew Brees.

The cap magic is entertaining, but it locks in aging players and quite possibly robs the Saints of better depth players comparative to other teams who have cap flexibility. As so many have said, it was geared to the "one player away" track, when the Saints now are one-player away - in every unit on the team. (with some units needing multiple players).

Plus the drafts have really started to ring up the list of head-scratchers.