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

I hear you, but Loomis is responsible for both the money and the talent. It comes with the job of GM. He's the final word. If he shifts the talent evaluatiosn to a coach, that's still on him. Carr had no history of ever being a franchise QB and they paid him like one when the only other team being tied to him was the Jets using him as leverage to get a deal done for Rodgers. He could have said no because there was too much risk to that signing but he gave DA what he wanted. And we can't keep using the same hypothetical situations where everything works out to excuse bad drafting, bad free agent signings and bad cap management. Only one of those things can be 100% without the potential for failure and that's the cap management.

No doubt Loomis deserves the blame either way. But since he's not going anywhere right now, at least we know that if he ends up hiring the right coach that does evaluate players properly and does know how to build a roster Loomis will give him the roster he wants. Hopefully without adding void years and singing aging vets to big deals with void years. Of course, if he gets the hire wrong, he will also give the coach the roster he wants.

I'm not totally confident Loomis is going to get this rebuild totally right, but I do think he moved in the right direction last year by not maximizing the restructures and with the Lattimore trade. My main fear is that he's going to go YOLO again spending in free agency and trading up in the draft.