It’s easy to get caught up in the weeds and sometimes that makes people miss the forest.

Possible scenarios:
- A $3.5BN franchise had a succession plan, and like most succession plans, a logical name is put in a box. DA has head coaching experience. It’s a common exercise organizations use to show upward mobility. They rarely auto promote the guy in the box.

- The likely scenario. Sean is still under contract and the franchise wanted to leave the door open in the slim chance that he wanted to come back. DA takes the clipboard for a year.

The result of both is the same and it’s likely a combination of the two and where we are. Remember DA was not given a new contract. The outcome was spun as continuity and some bit hard. It was damage control.

Now, what has not come up and I suspect it will, is that Dennis Allen being appointed as Saints head coach is a complete circumvention of the Roony Rule. Loomis announcing that Dennis Allen would be HC in 2023 shines a spotlight on the fact that there were never any interviews for Saints HC, much less minority interviews.

The big question becomes, did Loomis announce that to kill the speculation or shine a light as a tool to get rid of DA?

Stay tuned for more episodes of ‘How Dat Fleur-de-Lis Spin’.