Mascona has had enough (so have I)

Talk radio is largely entertainment. Matt's technical skills are superior to those of nearly everyone in the New Orleans radio market, though Detillier remains a favorite. But the bottom line is that his diagnosis and prognosis of the team have been largely right for three years.

Loomis's approach over the last three years--continuity, win now with a team lacking win-now talent, trading away draft picks to move up in the draft, pushing back every year the consequences of highly aggressive salary-cap management--is shared by few others in the NFL. With good reason.

That he does not have a tent pitched out on Airline Drive is a strength because it provides distance for him to say what should be said. He has access to those with the tents who will tell him what they dare not say in their newsletter or on their television broadcast as well as those who cover other teams. And the true state of the team is seen in the games in fall, not in August practices.