Saints planned to interview Mike McCarthy; McCarthy didn’t garner enough interest from Saints and will take a year off

There is a big difference between the small amount of contracts we did that with the majority of time Sean was here and what we've been doing the last 3 or 4 years. Huge difference. One was trying to maximize the championship window while the team was good, now we're doing it out of addiction to doing it even though we're not a good team. As far as being good cap wise soon, if you had looked at 2025 in 2023, you could have said the same thing then. We were just a couple of years and a couple of drafts away. But here we are.
Covid year also threw a wrench in things. ML was/is heavily reliant on the salary cap increase by year. He, sorta got caught off guard, and he was forced to do contracts he wasn’t planning on. I don’t fault him for that, being that no one saw that pandemic stuff happening