It is time for a top to bottom housecleaning. Rizzi is a nice guy and a solid special teams coach. He is not HC material. (unless the master plan is to field a bad team while clearing the cap for a real HC hire in a few years). All coordinators and position coaches must go. We have overpaid for washed up players and are paying the price for this now. We have a handful of young players on each side of the ball worth keeping but there is not a single all pro difference maker on this roster that another team would trade a 1st round pick+ to acquire - including the pile of injured players and those on IR.
Anyone involved in strength and condition program needs to be fired on day 1 of the new regime.
But this biggest change that must be made before any progress can be made is getting rid of Mickey Loomis. He and Payton caught lightning in a bottle with Drew Brees. Brees is to Payton/Loomis as Brady was to Bellicheck. Neither coach/GM has done squat minus the first ballot HOF QB. Neither could obtain and developed a competent replacement QB. Loomis understandably kicked the can down the road on the cap when Brees was in the building. But once that ship sailed Loomis kept chopping wood, whiffed on multiple drafts, let good young players walk and traded away draft picks to move up for overrated prospects who were a terrible reach. It is hardly surprising that we are where we are. For Loomis to smack his gum last offseason, compare DA to Chuck Knoll and Bill Bellicheck and tell the fans we did not know what we were talking about - that DA was a great coach - says a lot about his lack of competence as a GM. The fact that he was reluctant to let DA go in season makes clear that he is the one who must go.
Time to burn it down and start over. Even with a great coaching hire (which Loomis is not qualified to make) it will take the Saints 3 years to turn over this terrible roster and get rid of the dead money dragging this team down.