While Saints fans and state officials are celebrating the newly signed 10-year agreement to keep the Saints in New Orleans, it is sad that such agreement doesn’t exist to ensure that the Saints organization can field a truly competitive team. But that can’t happen with the present executive vice president and general manager, Mickey Loomis.
The condition the Saints are in today falls almost totally on Loomis’ shoulders. As a result of his decisions the Saints are fielding one of the oldest-age rosters in the NFL, have a salary cap space ranking second to last and are being led by one of the 2025 worst-ranked quarterbacks in the NFL.
The problem with the Saints organization was made quite evident as early as 2022 with Loomis advocating for the hiring of Dennis Allen as the Saints’ head coach. After his hiring one of statements put forth was, “We wanted to keep it in the family.”
Therein lies the problem. Football is a business, not some type of family bonding entity. And the fact that Mickey Loomis serves as the co-executor for the Tom Benson estate highlights how this “keeping it in the family” mentality will continue to be the main hindrance to fielding a truly competitive team.
Could Gayle Benson make the sound unbiased business decision to terminate Loomis as executive vice president and general manager when he is so entrenched in her family? Until she can, the Saints’ future success is doubtful in the newly guaranteed 10-year Superdome agreement. So make sure you have an ample supply of brown bags.