Causation can often be difficult to nail down especially with an organization that has this many moving parts. My best stab at a summary looks like this…

Seventeen years ago Sean Payton and Drew Brees joined this organization and arguably changed its course. Just two years after both have departed and the organization is exactly where it was before they arrived. Nothing was learned, no culture seeded.

We went from a coach that couldn’t be baited by the press to one that will argue with his players in the media.