Saints candidates Kellen Moore, Joe Brady [and Kliff Kingsbury] compared to Ben Johnson in offensive rankings

SAINT BIGAL said

I wasn’t commenting on the city. I was talking specifically about the Saints organization with a lack of talent and lots of needs.

If Ben Johnson turned/turns down an opportunity with the Saints, that’s ok. No hard feelings here. I’m sure that Detroit job he took wasn’t considered easy at the time.

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Yeah, I know. I was talking about more of the people as a whole. There's a lot of "we want the shiny new thing", but really we need someone who wants to take on the job and it's not going to be easy. We need a HC who is willing to take it on b/c it's going to be a hard job.

Johnson was hired as a Quality Control Coach under Matt Patricia, retained as the TE coach when Campbell took the job. The following year he promoted to Passing Game Coordinator and then a year later promoted to OC. So he joined a bad team when he was an entry level coach, stayed on as a low level coach during a regime change and them move up as the talent level increased before finally taking over when it was a near complete offense. The players on that team are Dan Campbell players. Now, he's looking for a perfect situation where a foundation of players is already in place before leaves where he's at. I see a theme here and it's not one of a team/culture builder, but more of a guy looking for that perfect, just inserted HC, ready made job. If that's the case, he's not our guy. We need the guy who is willing to build the team and the culture.