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

This is a large part of my concerns. Not just the decision to hire DA, or the bizarre press conference, or even the fact that Gayle had to go around him to fire DA, but everyone seems to have memory-holed him calling a meeting with all the players at the end of the season to tell them to shut up about how bad DA was and to fall in line. It's been like finding out Loomis was a flat earther, and not just to troll people, like he actually believes it. Hard to take him seriously after all that.

I just mentioned that team meeting in my post above. But it was an admittedly too long and rambling post.

Anyway, he should have fired DA when he realized that he needed to do that, but I think he did that because he knew that DA didn't have the leadership skills to deal with it.