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

It's not really a different discussion. It hurt the strategy because it wasn't / isn't a good strategy and it's never even benefited the team in any meaningful way. The Covid shortfall was much smaller than what we've had to eat sitting on Ram's contract. We took on $17m in dead money to cut Galette. That $15 million should not be an excuse in 2025 and we certainly didn't learn from it because we're still doing it.
That's not relevant to my point, but whatever. You see what you want to see.