I wish I had your confidence in Loomis but all I can remember is that clown show end of season PC he did.....good they didn't trade down because I think we got a LT starter for years to come at one of the premium need positions....
I do think the first round of the draft worked out right for the team and frankly, I think if Bowers had fallen it would have been a mistake not to take him.
Anyway, I guess I just see Loomis as a guy that isn't great when he is in the spotlight. Part of that is that he spent so many years with Payton and Brees as the face of the organization. But DA is never going to be that guy so Loomis has had to step into the role and he is not good at it. Still, I think he's a patient calming hand which has it's disadvantages since he tends to be slow to get rid of underperforming coaches, but it also means that people want to work for him because he doesn't just fire everyone the moment things go wrong.
Plus, numbers guy or not, he's been in an NFL front office or an NFL GM for almost 40 years so he probably knows more about football than most of us think he does. I mean he's had access to coaches, scouts, and players that most of us football obsessed fans only dream of. Some of that information has to have rubbed off on him. He doesn't always make the right decision, but he is willing to change even if it's not as quickly as we would like.
Whether that's because he is hard headed or patient may be a matter of semantics and if what he does turns out to be right in the end. When he gave Payton more time after 3 straight 7-9 seasons he was patient but giving Allen this much time seems to be hard headed. ;)