BakoSaint

In the end, we would probably have the same or better record with Pete Carmichael. And thats not because he is the better OC, its because we had the personnel to run his system. This should serve as a lesson why you dont try to 'wizard' your way out of the salary cap. When you do, most of your roster is locked in because cutting or trading any starter leads to a massive dead cap hit from years of restructuring, that make players cost more to cut than to extend, and living at max cap there is not much space to bring in new players. Thus, when we brought in an OC with a totally different system, we couldn't bring in any players suited to that system. And in a physical smash mouth new system, unsuited players meant injuries.

In the end I think we have two choices. Either do a full rebuild, or bring back Pete Carmichael as OC and Ryan Nielsen as HC and run the same system forever, so we can brag about beating the salary cap without facing one of the main drawbacks.

K Major

This right here ^^. There is something going on with regards to the Saints practices, temperature, load management & medical in general.

IMO this is more than just "bad luck" or "snake bit", there has got to be an underlying cause, could be an organizational thing.