Underhill: Saints are interviewing probably 12 coaches (Tracker: officially 7 interviews) [Rapoport: Saints may add more]
I wonder if we could get Sean Payton in a trade. Hmmmmmm.
I floated that idea sometime around mid-season, when the popular discussion was "who could we get IF we fired DA". There was the usual plethora of "obvious" candidates. Not that I have a problem with that, but I try to avoid groupthink and attempt to think outside the box.
Trading for CSP was one of the most realistic "outside the box" proposals I could conjure up, acknowledging it wasn't LIKELY to happen. Slightly more likely, I suggested a trade for Dan Campbell, allowing the Lions to retain Ben Johnson as HC. Neither idea got much traction, nor discussion. But if we're leaving no stone unturned....it was worthy of consideration.
At this point, I think we're too far along in the HC search now to reconsider, but I hope phone calls were made very early in the process. And maybe they were... But I think that train(s) has left the station now.