Loomis' one unforgivable decision

Noisemaker said

I know there are many threads on decisions under Mickey Loomis that have set our team back. But one BY FAR is the worst and most unforgivable.

When we traded 2 first round picks to move up in the first round to pick Marcus Davenport over Lamar Jackson.

Everyone on the TV was shocked. They all thought we made that bold trade move for one reason only, for a successor to Drew Brees.

Instead we wound up with a DE with low ambition that could not stay healthy and eventually not resigned.

Jackson has been a multiple NFL MVP candidate.

It's very hard for me to get over that move.

Loomis was a basketball point guard for a small college. Why in the world does he have the right to determine what a FOOTBALL team needs for success. Sean Payton propped him up big time. I would not be surprised if Loomis was part of why Sean eventually wanted out.

If he had good judgement, he would realize that a basketball player is not a good decision maker for an NFL team.

HIRE A FOOTBALL GM LOOMIS, WE DESERVE BETTER!

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I am not going to blame anyone because of one reason, I don't know who made that call as I have no idea how involved he is with drafting decisions.

What I will say is whoever did really mess up. I know hindsight is 20/20 and all that but just the fact that he was so raw and went to such a small school was a huge overreach. I really wish I knew because I have a feeling Payton wanted a QB, but we had Brees and I think that played into it because even we had Mahomes or Jackson would they really start before Drew was gone, most definitely
not. I know Payton really liked Jackson and I thought that was who we were going to get.

There is just too much we don't know. If I had to guess it was, they discussed it and decided because Drew had several years left, they were going to invest in the defense and that was going to finally give Drew what he needed to get the team to another Super Bowl. Also, at the time Davenport was drafted we still didn't have anyone to help Cam on the other side and physically Dav was a beast and when he was healthy, he had some great games, but he was always injured and never developed.

I hope they have learned that we need a clean slate and a fresh start and make the hard cuts and suffer for a year or 2 and build it right and learn that trading up isn't always the best answer in the draft.