Mickey Loomis’ GM duties

Hit the nail on the head. Saints need a football guy in charge. Loomis is an accountant/lawyer who thinks he is a football guy but has never sat in a pro locker.

I have no issue with him being in charge of the business end but it seems like the GM role should be done by someone who understands players.
The football/personnel guy in charge is Jeff Ireland. Ireland wouldn’t be the contracts guy if he were the GM, though. There’d still need to be someone from finance, like an EVP/Finance, for that role, which is essentially shuffling deck chairs on the ship because personnel & finance always have to work in tandem with coaching/preparation to acquire talent. Loomis was a finance guy in graduate school and a finance guy with the Seahawks. He never worked at the collegiate level which is why he relies on the staff of collegiate scouts to handle that business, whereas it’s pretty much just him and Khai Harley dealing with the money/negotiation of it.