That’s true. But the hole he had to work with in Denver wasn’t much different than what he had the last year that he was in New Orleans. It just seems that he had a good reason to want to start a rebuild somewhere else.
The money hole from the last year in New Orleans was the result of years pursuing his wishes.
Those didn’t manifest, either. The team was closer from 2017-2020, yes, in that they made the playoffs all four seasons.
It’s not like Brees left and the Saints became a 3-win team, so I think it made sense to keep trying to win. Dennis Lauscha grew up a Saints fan in New Orleans and probably doesn’t want to go back to the franchise’s old losing ways - and I think that order is passed down to the entire front office.
Maybe the Madden Football game GMs think one-year turnarounds are easily replicable, from competing against 31 manipulable AIs… in reality there are 31 other franchises that also want nothing more than to win, and they’re trying everything they can to compete, too.