In Your Opinion, Why Should the Saints Steer Away from the Payton Coaching Tree?

You are not going to get to a 12 win season year one with a new coach
CSP took a 3-13 team to 10-6 and an NFCCG in his 1st season. That's a +7 game improvement. Saints are currently 5-9. CSP demonstrated what the right hire can do. It's probably not likely, but it's possible. At this point it appears the Saints final record will be 6-11, with a ceiling of 7-10. It seems that 10-7 is the likely floor to guarantee a playoff spot. We just need a coach to make a +4 game improvement. And even with injuries, an argument could be made that better coaching in situational moments likely would have resulted in that outcome THIS year. JMO...