If Mickey Loomis isn’t fired

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Absolutely, no excuses for Loomis to still be around.

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Mickey is (today, at least) an essential part of the succession planning once Gayle passes away. Kinda hard to unwind that.

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Loomis should have bit the bullet on the salary cap issues when Payton left. Instead, he choose to overpay for underperformance. He needs to go as soon as possible.

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I'd give him a pass for the first year, since they were 9-8 and a year removed from a multi-year stretch of 11+ wins. But once you saw this team was a .500 team at best, you had to know they were not 1 player away. And definitely not "just a QB away". 2022 should have been the beginning of the cap fix, then you could probably justify keeping your buddy DA around for a few more years.

Now you bring in a new HC, and you have to "get him his players" and start screwing up the 2030 cap.

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Mickey is (today, at least) an essential part of the succession planning once Gayle passes away. Kinda hard to unwind that.

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Gayle will live another 15-20 years. No need to keep him around for that.

He won't be fired, best you can hope is that he assumes a higher level position, Saints/Pelicans organization CEO/CFO/executive manager type position, giving someone else that Saint GM position, though that may be Jeff Ireland which would seem like more of the same, maybe.

Of course I also thought DA would not be fired either so who knows.