Mickey Loomis’ GM duties

He’s not a personnel GM guy. He trusts the reports of the personnel guys + the head coach’s wishes, and makes the money work once they all agree on a player to pursue. Loomis has always done that well. Every player hasn’t worked out, but no GM can claim a 100% hit rate or even close to it.

As for the current cap mess, if they’re taking steps to remedy that, it’s going to need to include some level of succeeding on draft picks since their salaries are typically slotted and pre-determined. No overpays, just the possibility of overdrafting, but most often the misses are “so-and-so wasn’t an NFL player at all” instead of “this guy we liked could probably have been had a round later” so hopefully a strong draft allows older players to phase out of the team’s plans because the guys on rookie deals prove capable of playing at a high level.