re: What is a harder pill to swallow?

One difficult eventuality that I expect will be that the Saints FO and roster will obviously need to be blown up and re-built, HOWEVER, for various reasons, those with the authority to make that decision will NOT make that decision, and the status quo of hopelessness will remain as a constant.

The organism will eventually become deceased through natural causes, and the resulting decomposition will offend the nose, because those with authority will continue to refuse to bury the corpse.

At long last, there will be a new Ownership and perhaps a move to a different NFL city.