Pat Kirwan said he heard Carr didn’t want to do Saints contract restructure
I don’t mean tear down either. This team is running it back with largely the same roster and the additions and losses of players is pretty much the same as what every team does every year. That doesn’t even indicate a soft rebuild to me.
And I get that there were some coaching issues, but these guys didn’t just forget how to play football and at times they looked completely inept on the field.
I still believe Loomis would have given DA the injury excuse and run it back. Nick and Mike have believed a lot of things about what Loomis would or should do that Loomis then did the opposite of.
I mean, they added Justin Reed and Godchaux to help solve the issues in run defense and Safety. And both are at modest contracts and Godchaux can likely be cut after one year. So it's not like they haven't added any upgrades or they have spent massive money.. But, I also know that you don't want them to crazy in free agency this year.
The only guys they resigned are Young and Johnson who both play positions we are desperate at due to poor or lack of drafting in the past. They paid a bit more than I would have liked for those guys, but they had to pay the desperation tax for being so thin at those positions. I personally would not have brought back Johnson, but there weren't really younger/better options in free agency and being forced to draft two TEs probably also wasn't a good idea. I think we were/are in no win situations at those spots. That' is unless both player unexpectedly break out.
So, if you aren't going to spend big in free agency, the the big changes are going to have to come from the draft. Isn't that the consequence of not spending big in free agency? And wouldn't you be pissed if Loomis went out and spent a bunch of money to upgrade the roster?
As far as DA, he was either a bad coach or he wasn't. If he wasn't a bad coach then maybe this is a 5 win team. But, if he was a bad coach and you take into account injuries, maybe this is a 7 to 9 win team as it stands now prior to the draft.
And nobody know if Loomis was going to fire DA or not. I think he was going to fire him at the end of the season and there are indications from the local guys that he would, but I'll conceded that we don't really know and if DA had somehow gotten to 9 wins he might have stayed. But, I think there is an almost 0 chance he could have won 9 games. Frankly, I doubt he would have won another game after losing to the Panthers. The players were about to revolt. Even Cam asked for a trade.