Saints will interview Mike McCarthy in person during this week, Jan. 20-Jan. 25 [Underhill: McCarthy would have to be the current favorite]

Swampy Saint said
I like your list.

I don’t judge McCarthy as harshly as you do.
Every situation is different.
Watching the Commanders turn things around so quickly (also the Saints when CSP took over), gives me the hope that it can be done again with the right coaches.

McCarthy feels like a false hope to me considering he couldn't turn things around in Dallas and spent 4 years constantly losing to playoff caliber coaches, even during the season.

I would expect us to be a barely above average team that either misses the wildcard in the last two games of the season, or is out first round of playoffs at best.

After spending 3 years watching a Dennis Allen team, I'm really, really wanting the Saints to get a new head coach that can grow and become a super bowl contender. Risking that is better then settling for mediocrity (and it is risky) imo. Cheering for an unknown is a lot more investing then cheering for a known that has displayed their hand time and time again over the last 7 years to show they'll never be one of the last 4 teams standing (and very likely not even the last 8). I wish I could say there was some level of hope for McCarthy, but ever sense around 2012 its been very slowly, but steadily getting worse for McCarthy. Around 2010 they were a year in and year out superbowl contender and ever since around 2014 its been steadily downhill to the point were not one of his teams, no matter what resources he has had, was his teams even a conference threat.

Simply a wild card round threat. Which as we are seeing, is plenty good for many fans.