Saints planned to interview Mike McCarthy; McCarthy didn’t garner enough interest from Saints and will take a year off
Superbowl appearances: Tomlin 2, Sean and McCarthy 1. He's not better than Tomlin, look at number of losing seasons. Payton and McCarthy have the same number of losing seasons (4) and Tomlin has none. I will always give Payton the edge for what he did for us but I can acknowledge they on a similar tier. It's the lazy choice but Loomis is scared to rock the boat , so I will not be surprised if he went that route.
edit, correction: Payton has five vs McCarthy's four losing seasons. It still doesn't change my view of who is better between the two.