Mike Florio bringing the proper perspective to our organization: “Saints are a solid long-term destination for a new coach“

StudioSaint said
Correct. Payton gets credit for identifying players to get. Loomis gets credit for finding a way to get those players, like creative contracts and trading up in the draft.

You're not getting any of that from me. If you are, then you need to re-calibrate your detector, because it's giving you false readings.

One of the many things he does to run the team is to facilitate the head coach. It's pretty straight forward.

Oh, I see, you only give Loomis credit for allowing Payton to make mistakes. You don't give Loomis credit for any of the good things he let Payton do. You're doing the same thing you are "detecting" other are doing, only you fault Loomis for all of the mistakes made and don't give him credit for any of the success.

It was Payton’s job to coach the team as the “head coach”. It was Loomis’ job to manage the team as the “general manager”. A coach will always want everything now. A GM has to balance that with the longer term viability of the roster. Allowing the team to draft the least amount of players by trading away picks and getting the cap in this shape for short term gains was irresponsible. Maybe not you, but many, blame Payton for that stuff when it was Loomis’ job to create a balance between short and long term goals.

For many, that mismanagement will be seen as a negative until he can show that he recognizes it as a detriment and that he has a plan to recover from it so that long term goals are attainable. Because right now the balance is gone. Neither short nor long term goals look good. We’ll see over the next month or so what it really looks like because right now it’s too early to say either way.

For a prospective coach, it looks like a tough road to climb if you can’t really mold the roster much for two years because of the decisions made in the past. And the reality is that coaches are always the ones to get the blame for the lack of success.