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John DeShazier - Times Picayune
Today, Mickey Loomis is a general manager whose fortunes parallel his team's, an executive who appears to be at the top of his game, the kind an NFL owner wisely can entrust with his football franchise.
Let the record show that he doesn't sound very comfortable with that line of thinking. Loomis, in fact, goes out of his way to sweep up the accolades tossed at his feet and lay them on the mountain of positives that Coach Sean Payton and the Saints are standing on.
But it wouldn't be fair to let him off the hook that easily. It wouldn't be fair, or accurate, to not acknowledge that all this wonderfulness the Saints are enjoying entering today's game against Baltimore -- a 5-1 record, fantastic first-year coach, free-agent steal of a quarterback and hotshot rookie running back, among many plusses -- begins with the general manager. Full Story - Times Picayune
Today, Mickey Loomis is a general manager whose fortunes parallel his team's, an executive who appears to be at the top of his game, the kind an NFL owner wisely can entrust with his football franchise.
Let the record show that he doesn't sound very comfortable with that line of thinking. Loomis, in fact, goes out of his way to sweep up the accolades tossed at his feet and lay them on the mountain of positives that Coach Sean Payton and the Saints are standing on.
But it wouldn't be fair to let him off the hook that easily. It wouldn't be fair, or accurate, to not acknowledge that all this wonderfulness the Saints are enjoying entering today's game against Baltimore -- a 5-1 record, fantastic first-year coach, free-agent steal of a quarterback and hotshot rookie running back, among many plusses -- begins with the general manager. Full Story - Times Picayune