Rebuilding strategy, forty-niners or saints?

Not sure that's true. The Pats tried a retread vet QB first (Cam Newton) before eventually drafting two first round QBs. Both attempted to keep rolling with a retread, the Pats timeline to a high draft pick (or two) at the position was just accelerated compared to ours

Yep. The Pats tried to keep it rolling with Mac Jones and Cam. But it all fell apart because Bill wasn't as good at drafting as some thought and they no longer had Brady. They eventually reached rock bottom, but they didn't do it on purpose. Saints and Pats are at about the same point post HoF QB, we will see who gets there and if the Saints can rebound from last year and we will see if all the cap money the Pats spent results in a good team or they end up like the Jaguars a few years ago that spent a lot of money for very few wins and are starting over again.