Saints restructure Ramczyk to vet minimum per Jason Fitzgerald of Over The Cap

St. Widge said

And I think the Carr deal too goes back to failures in the draft. They had chances to draft QBs like Jackson, Love, Hurts, and even Mahomes if Payton had kept his mouth shut but either they made bad evaluations or chose to take other positions because they were thinking too short term in the draft.

You make mistakes like Carr when you don't have a good young player on your roster to step up when an aging vet retires or gets too old to live up to his contract. That's true at every position including QB.

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That is a fair assessment, alot of that is on DA. Loomis tends to be a hands-off GM, people who keep saying things like "Loomis isn't good in FB operations he needs a coach like Payton who can identify talent" forget that Loomis had to hire Ireland because something about evaluations had gone amiss under Payton's thumb.

There's no excuse for letting someone like Baun walk. You evaluated him properly, waited in the draft to get him, and then the HC sours on him and demotes him to Sam LB. Meanwhile the guy he likes, Werner, who seems to have impressed him, gets a 2nd contract for what many here would describe as solid play. A lot of those misses are on Allen because plenty of times he said the final decision always was w/ him.

Conversely Mac McDonald recently said "id like Geno back, but the final decision isn't a my decision its an us/organizational decision" Loomis doesn't run things like that. DA brought in his kind of guys, kept his guys, and the players that weren't...they left over the years and we're seeing it now.