I cross posted in r/NOLAPelicans for basketball references
Loomis did his best to recreate the 2014 Raiders this offseason. You typically don’t see teams take the approach, but they did. Carr was benched last season and then given a ton of guaranteed money to play worse than Baker Mayfield. That’s not a wise use of funds.
The cap situation is going to come back now because Los Santos took a chance on a QB that is in the 15-20 range and paid him top 10 money. Loomis appears to have always thought that they could swap out Brees and the ship would stay its course. The constant restructuring contracts was fine in the 2010s when you had Brees. Shit ain’t that easy when you have Carr and Wintson losing to Josh Dobbs yesterday.
The coaching hire and play calling are stangnant. The drafting has been spotty at best since 2017, and some huge misses along the way.
Loomis is common denominator for both squads. Both teams should be better and he’s the chief guy for both. Loomis led a rebuild once, but now refuses to do so while Los Santos tread in mediocrity. Is Loomis the guy to be able to right the ship?
I am pretty sure Loomis hasn’t been involved with the pelicans since 2019, I guess I could be wrong.
Move on from loomis to Khai Harley? maybe?
David Griffin and Trajan Landon (Langdon?) head up the execs for the Pels
Loomis is great. He gets the talent players. Of course he does get us draft fails such as Marcus Davenport. However, we have overall drafted really well still. Paulson Adebo (3rd round) and Alontae Taylor (2nd round) have been playing like solid first rounders. Our linebackers crew which was really suspect a few years ago is now solid. Other than drafts, he’s been making good personel decisions. Also, people have been saying “Give his job to Khai Harley.” Harley is great no doubt, but he handles contracts. I don’t know if he has much experience in what Loomis does.
The problem is coaching and leadership. When you have consistent problems with routes breaking apart and miscommunication, that’s a coaching failure. When you have a talented guy like Chris Olave give up on his route, that’s a leadership failure. Our players are undisciplined and not motivated. When Sean Payton was here, a lot of players may have hated how tough his routine was, but he kept the players in line. He made sure they did their reps plus extra and were ready for each team every week. Dennis Allen despite his great defensive schemes, is a terrible leader and head coach. His “just keep doing what you’re doing but better” attitude is not cutting it.
Also Pete Carmicheal is a complete failure as an OC. It’s as if he doesn’t even want to be offensive coordinator and the job just fell into his hands. An OC such as him doesnt adapt the playbook to the talent of the players, but rathers tries to get the players to try to adapt to whichever scheme in the team’s playbook they can work with. Guys like Taysom and Kamara who have very unique skill sets that will get wasted here.
Ive been saying they need to move on from loomis for a while now