So How Attractive is the Saints HC Job?

I am sure we are one of the least attractive jobs for all the reasons OP laid out. We're just not a marquee job - we need to get lucky and/or find someone who has a local or franchise connection that would override some of the objective criteria.

But, it really doesn't matter to me if we are seen as the least attracttive job - it's more or less a crapshoot and every team has to get lucky when they hire a coach. Unless you hire someone who clearly has no business being a HC (think Tomsula), you never know until they get in the door. It's all an educated guess. (FWIW I would not have hired DA but at the time I could at least understand the logic. By October it was clear we were screwed.)

We were clowning the Falcons for years over Dan Quinn and "Quinning" and now he's coaching in the NFCCG.