Mickey hands you the keys and you take over as the new GM. What are you next 3 steps to turn things around?
Mickey hands you the keys and you take over as the new GM. What are you next 3 steps to turn things around?
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1) Hire a new scouting department and staff
2) Make sure we are out of Cap hell in the next 2 years
3) Cut Blake Grupe
1. Trade Chris Olave
2. Clear the cap of anyone past the age of 30
3. Avoid trading up in the draft for the next 3 years
Remove or add ping pong tables from the locker room. They are a distraction/build team bonding.
Separate or combine positions groups. You should branch out to more than your room/should be closer to the people you work with.
Make changes to the chefs cause why is NOLA always rated so low on food when it comes to team surveys.
Contrary to popular opinion I would not trade any veteran starters, trading guys like cam, Demario, or Alvin would decimate whatever culture we’re trying to build. I would look at trading Olave simply because he’s going to have a 20-30 million asking price that I don’t think is worth it. In the draft in the 1st we’re either taking Reuben Bain or trading down a few picks and taking the best corner/reciever available if he’s gone. 2nd round will be the best interior oline available and 3rd will be between db/ and reciever, whatever we didn’t take in the 1st. Rattler and shough will battle it out in camp again and we’ll see where it goes from there.
1. Hire new a completely new scouting staff
2. Have an organization wide meeting w Queen Benson assisting. Emphasizing Winning! Winning at everything! In practice, washing uniforms, serving the fans, etc!!
3. Trades! Trade away nasty contracts. We are rebuilding no need to keep players here with bad contracts and we’re not winning currently.
1. Firing him from any other positions and changing the locks just to make sure he can’t get back in. I’m also firing anyone and everyone in that building in the upper management side that might have ties/loyalty to him.
2. Not sure who is making the calls on who to draft, but probably time to replace Jeff Ireland and get a new scouting department.
3. Trading old vets to (hopefully) a decent team where they can finish their career in the playoffs and get draft picks in return for them to hopefully recoup some of the draft picks that the idiot Loomis traded away. This team needs to get younger and cheaper. It’s time to get under the cap and after a couple of drafts with the team getting younger, use that new cap space to sign free agents at positions of need where maybe a draft pick didn’t work out or you still have a hole.
For me, lose for a couple years, get the cap under order, get high 1st round draft picks that are unlikely to bust. Take a qb if a good one is available in the draft.
The team needs talent everywhere and teams can rebuild in a hurry in the nfl. Its not like the nba where it takes 5+ years
1. Tell him thanks.
2. Remind him of the great job he did hiring Drew, drafting beasts, building the SB team.
3. Point to the past 5 years before handing him a pink slip and having him escorted out.
1. Hire Mickey at some random position just so I can fire him.
2. Do the same with the scouting department.
3. Put an icee machine in my office before I do anything else.
Hire Mickey then fire him again. Got one move left.
I know he doesn’t want it but I’d like to send olave and kamara to the patriots for a first, the patriots are at a prime spot to be a playoff team this season and they have a cap space for it, ak and olave also fill in their two biggest offensive needs
1. Thank him for his time here, then show him the door.
2. Try to hire Fontenot back or another good young GM.
3. Keep getting under the cap and allow whoever managed the last draft to keep his job.
Mickey shouldn’t still have a job. Any other team and he would have been canned!
Thank you for posting this, it’s such a relief to see all of the amazing ideas people come up with
Get the salary cap under control within the next two years. Got to stop “paying” players who are no longer with the team. Accumulate as many draft picks as possible. Build the trenches. Rattler looks like he might be good enough to be a long term starter in this league, but continue to let the coaches develop and evaluate him. I’d trade Kamara and make Miller the starter. And lastly, have the coaches figure out a way to get Taysom Hill more involved in the offense! Of all the stupid things that the Saints have done, not having him be a major part of the offense was probably the worst.
Trade everything we have to bring bsck ricky williams
Fire Mickey loomis
trade down in the draft and build around rattler
1. Fire Mickey
2. Convince Gayle to sell the team to a worthy owner
3. Fire myself and find a competent GM
1. Find out why players get injured so easily and for so long
2. Get everybody on the trade block
3. Make a cup of tea and wait for all these stupid arse contracts on old player to be concluded before actually starting to bring in decent players
1 – I’d shop Granderson for a 3rd and if someone wanted to give a 1st for Olave I’d do it..otherwise hold on to him til next year with his 5th year option and decide then after the draft. Shed older players to open up cap for 2027
Assuming we get pick 1-3 I’d trade back and stockpile picks or draft Baine from Miami.
2 – Sign Tariq Woolen and Vera Tucker
3 – Draft Possession WR/TE/EDGE with the high picks we have from trading back.
1. ***Bring Brees back in as either a HC, OC, or at the very ***very*** least the Quarterback Coach.*** -The level of scoffing and dismissiveness I got when I suggested this before absolutely baffled me. We see how these guys instantaneously break down plays before the ball is even snapped when they’re on commentary (Romo, Carr, Brady, etc).
Brees is closer removed from the game than the geriatric head coaches whose prime abilities to understand the game are getting further and further from them (barring a few exceptions). If an all time great veteran QB is a diamond to sit under and learn, then that doesn’t magically go away if they put a headset on. He’s an all time great that’s gone blow for blow with the best defenses the NFL has to offer, and was able to chuck out 5K yard seasons with insane QBR and accuracy ratings while playing in the hardest division in football, the NFC South. There’s nothing he hasn’t seen, and he knows modern defenses well.
He would also greatly add to the locker room’s and fanbase’s morale and be able to encourage and teach the players better. We can draft all the QBs we want, but it doesn’t matter if they aren’t developed properly.
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2. ***The next first round draft pick either goes to a TE, or gets traded for a top TE.*** – Tight ends are probably the most pivotal players on the field for the least amount of investment. You really just need them to catch over the middle within 10-12 yds, and outmuscle linebackers if necessary. They are also the Achilles heel of AFC defenses , particularly the East, where TE’s run roughshod over defenses routinely, and AFC DCs haven’t quite figured out how to neutralize them yet. So naturally, I’d go for the best one, that would also take some heat off Kamara in the receiving game, and even do well for lead blocking on some rushes.
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3. ***Lock down Cam for DC position.*** – A no brainer. Perhaps our team’s best on-field defensive mind and player outside of the Dome Patrol and 42-who-shall-not-be-named, Jordan is a reliable leader in the locker room with invaluable insight that would go a long way towards teaching a defense, regardless of who we draft. He commands respect and obviously knows his shit.
Definitely coach heavy in my approach, but to be honest, as we’re quickly learning in today’s league, there are far too many players that seem to be future all time greats on paper that don’t do well, and former declared “busts” that are having sudden resurgences. What does that mean? It means that anyone in the NFL can make it and it’s about who’s coaching.
Definitely, shipping Juwan, Chase, and Shepherd.
Im going to go to Madden to see what a fair trade for Chris Olave is, then i’ll maker a call to Pittsburg to see if they bite.
Spend some time figuring out the job.
Realize I don’t know shit about running a football team.
Quit.