Mickey Loomis’ GM duties

SWJJ said

We have been so much better under Mickey Loomis than we have with any other GM by a huge margin it's ridiculous. He deserves a do-over and grace from the fan base. Yes, he needs to quit kicking the can, but we all know he did that for Brees and we are having to slowly eat that. Is he perfect? No, but we would be REAL hard pressed to find a replacement for him that's a better GM. I understand wanting him to do things differently, I don't understand why some fans want him fired.

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I do think Loomis should get a do-over with a new head coach and some grace for his years of good service that is sorely lacking. And, while he has many issues, I think he's a better GM than he gets credit for and is no worse than a mid-level GM. He's not Howie Roseman but he's also not Trent Baalke.

But, I will say that the biggest issue cap wise is that he kept kicking the can after Brees retired and most of it was done to sign a $100 million QB that we couldn't afford in order to try to give a failing coach the QB he wanted. I'm willing to give him a do-over on that too, but that, not so much keeping the window open for Brees, is a major part of our current cap issues. There is some hold over from contracts for older players like Davis and Cam, but we would be in a much better position cap wise without using all the future money he put up in order to be able to do the Carr deal.