ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler: Saints Head Coach opening is a coveted job among people I’ve spoken to; Mike McCarthy could have interest

The Saints have several things that make the job attractive:

1) Stable front office, that still won a superbowl and was a perennial contender in the 2010s. Coaches don't want to get married to GMs that are on shaky ground. Like it or not, Loomis is perceived is being in a very stable position as a GM. Realize that a new coach is looking to survive the next 3 years and hitching their wagon to a GM on their last legs is going to make a job very unappealing.

2) Ownership is fantastic. We have an owner that does not meddle in football affairs but is also willing to finance the front office's decisions. Realize that the Loomis method involves paying more money up front in signing bonuses to leverage future cap years (that should be growing to account for this leverage) for current gain.

3) Loomis's strategy is ideal for giving a head coach ample opportunity to build a roster and be competitive in free agency. Using restructures to use future year's cap for today's players is exactly what a head coach looking to survive a short time frame wants. This strategy maximally allows for "winning now" relative to NFL peers. Again, the coach is trying to just weather the storm of a transition and get to the three year mark. This is a lot harder to do on a team where the FO is conserving cap space, pinching pennies, etc.

4) We don't have a QB. I know this seems like a negative, but this actually allows our next head coach the chance to "get their guy" as opposed to being stuck with whatever had already been drafted and invested in. We know Carr is likely looking into just one more year in NOLA. Rattler has potential but is not so heavily invested in that a coach couldn't move on easily. It's very likely that the next head coach is being given the "green light" to draft their QB of the future in 2026. On the other hand, imagine New England's situation. You have to really like the Maye situation there, because you're inheriting him as your QB during all of those first 3 critical years and if that experiment fails all those years, you're probably out of the job on the back of a QB you didn't get to pick.