Rank the team's biggest impediments to success

The Saints spent too many years trying to be reactive rather than proactive from a front office strategy.

Loomis and Payton hit on a draft grand slam in 2017 that completely and almost overnight rejuvenated a stagnant perpetual middle of the road team (21-27 record from 2014-16).

So the mission then became to keep pieces around our first ballot HOF QB in an effort to win another SB or two.

And it should have worked…. We know why it didn’t.

However, now we are seeing the rebound effect of that philosophy.

As soon as Brees officially retired, Loomis should have shifted gears to trying to replenish the core of young affordable talent on the roster.

When Payton resigned, he should have kicked that plan into overdrive and allowed a new coach with a new philosophy to come in and steer the overhaul.

Instead, we all lost 3 years on a futile attempt to delay the inevitable and piecemeal a competitive team together with the fragments of Sean Payton’s staff.

Now we get to sit for the next 2-3 years and watch our team toil in the basement of the league and attempt to strip a rotten house to the studs and fix cracks in the foundation.

And by the time it’s underway, the NFC South will likely be cycling back to competitive division again and it’ll be even harder to gain a foothold.

The top issue is Loomis.

Everything else is a symptom.