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

Fun fact: two recent permanent head coaches here (Payton and Haslett) surprisingly won a division title in their first year, defying expectations after the team had a 3-13 season the year before in each case. Winning the division is markedly easier now than it was in both of those cases. Wonder if it can happen a third time next season.... :unsure:
Haslett had the fortune of inheriting two well-built lines, the problem on those Ditka Saints teams was more to do with basically every player on the roster who weighed less than 230 pounds not named Sammy Knight. Haz rebuilt the secondary, added speed on offense, and hired a considerable bounty of assistant coaches who got poached after 1-2 seasons, and built what became the fringe playoff team that played 16 road games in a season that one time. That ‘05 team lost three games on walkoff field goals and in two other games threw INTs in the end zone while driving to tie the game. I like to believe a normal circumstances team wins at least a couple of those, and is more competitive in some of the other losses, thus getting closer to “fringe playoff team” than “on-field disaster.”