Saints fired Dennis Allen

St. Widge said

Yep. Loomis even mentioned in the NOF interview that he thinks one of the reasons this is an attractive job is because this is a "first class organization" with a good reputation around the league. I think he thinks part of that is that it's a team that tends not to fire coaches mid-season, gives them time to prove they deserve the job, and does whatever they can do financially to give the coach the team he wants.

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Once the Payton/Brees Era teams started rolling the folks who run the Saints used to tell people they were the "NFC Patriots" (back when that was a very flattering comparison). They clearly hold themselves in very high regard and believe the Saints are among the League's premier teams like the Steelers, Giants, 49ers, Cowboys.

For a few years there, they might have been right, but I'm not sure they rest of the league has felt that way in some time. From the results on the field to the NFLPA surveys, the story seems to be the opposite.

As my old boss would say, if you could buy Loomis for what he's worth and sell him for what he thinks he's worth, you'd make a lot of money.

They need some new blood in there - in the same way Rizzi is shaking up the on field product with things like stretching (LOL), they need a cold-eye review of the entire football operation. I think they might find out they are operating a 2010 team in 2024.