ESPN’s Bill Barnwell rates the Saints as least desirable job for HC candidates [mod edit]

9. New Orleans Saints​

Pros: Ownership, division
Cons: Roster, salary cap

The Saints are roughly where the Raiders were in 2011, when they were holding on for dear life with the league's worst cap situation in the hopes of being competitive. That team had an excuse: They were attempting to win another Super Bowl for Al Davis while the legendary owner was still alive, which was made more difficult by some of the key decisions Davis was making, including hiring Hue Jackson to be the new coach.

The Saints don't have that excuse or really any reason to operate the way they have over the past few years now that Drew Brees and Sean Payton have both left town. This season has continued the slide down the drain for New Orleans, which followed the firing of longtime Payton assistant Pete Carmichael during the offseason by dismissing coach Dennis Allen in midyear. Darren Rizzi has gone 3-3 as the interim coach, but this organization desperately needs to accept that the glory days aren't coming back until it gets a fresh start.

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The reflexive criticism of Barnwell ignores the big elephant in the room.

Loomis is an omnipotent and incompetent GM, given a lifetime anointment by our long-deceased owner.

Loomis' "emperor with no clothes" roster and cap mis-management, injurious medical environment, and a crystallized fan-adversarial ego are baked in for whoever the next coach will be.

The Saints under Loomis are locked in to long-term mediocrity. They'll never lose enough or have enough assets or have the will to go get a franchise QB they can build around. Loomis' smoke and mirrors no longer builds a contending roster around a HoF QB, it just distracts from an overpaid, unbalanced, depthless roster with nothing close to a franchise QB.

Here we are at the end of the 4th dreadful season in a row. Where we are as a fanbase is that we are actually aroused that we might get as high as an 8th round pick. Saints can't muster a winning record with the worst record in a bad division.

Ya'll may think Vrabel is the Daddy we need. All I see there is us now using the Tennessee Oilers as our new muse, after doing it the Raider way for the past 4 years. Just more distraction to cover up the Loomis ego.

Go get us a head coach who will increase scoring.
Go get us a new name in coaching. Give us mere pleebs a reason to party again with football.