This suggests that Loomis defers all roster and personnel decisions to others and does not exert any influence - he just does what "the football people" want. That was likely very true during the Haslett regime when Loomis was earlier in his career, and during the Payton era, when Payton was by far the dominant mind in the organization. But in the post-Payton era we are getting a lot more of Loomis' take on things and his fingerprints are much more prominent. The DA hire and super defensiveness around his coaching tenure, his pushing Carr as a Top 10 QB - that's not someone who is just running the numbers to make the roster cap compliant - that's a guy defending the coach HE selected and the roster HE wants on the field. At least that's how it seems to me.
Hopefully with this next hire he returns to just being the cap nerd.