Loomis' one unforgivable decision

This. This and only this. You can do the hindsight is 50/50 thing all day on specific draft picks or Free Agent misses but they can't all be homeruns. That's part of the job. But your main job as a GM in the NFL is the stability and health of the franchise. You have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em. SP didn't wanted no part of a rebuild so I cut Loomis some slack on SP's last year. He didn't have much of a choice but to go all in with a pair of 7s. But when Drew and SP were both gone and they were replaced with Winston and DA, Loomis moved all in on a stone cold bluff.

A lot of people around here thought it was the right move at the time. They would point to the talent on the roster and say now is not the time to blow it up. People honest to god thought we could walk the yard and win it all with DA and Winston. When you would point out that Winston isn't that great people would say that he's basically Peyton Manning and he's been attending Harvard for QBs. Remember that argument? People twisted and turned doing pretzel logic trying to justify something that was clearly a mistake.

To be fair alot of those same people also thought we should be winning games with Post Bengals Andy Dalton and Spencer Rattler so... But Seriously I think we are going down the path of when Patriots loss Brady and Colts loss Manning. We didnt do a good job replacing Brees I dont know if thats on Payton, before not wanting to be part of rebuild, or Loomis. Loomis gave Payton alot flexibility and trust when developing a roster and Winston was Payton choice. But Having a QB is such an advantage in modern NFL its insane. You cant hit him high, low, roll your body on him, during a slide even though qbs are allowed to fake slide. And this must be done whith shoulders only meanwhile WR cant be touched until they catch the ball and are "allowed to pick" corners. All this advantage I cant say a 100% clean cap, DA fired, Loomis fired we go out there with 3rd rate QB we still be mid. Feel like the Browns been doing that model of cap space and coaching GM rotation for years and still got stuck with Watson and mid team