The Dude

We all know our cap situation is horrible and we all know Loomis is partially to blame and I am in no way trying to excuse him. Thinking back, way back, we will say when Payton first got hired there was a meeting. In this meeting there was Loomis, Payton, Benson, and the rest of the top FO brass. Someone asked the question "what do we need to put us in the best position to win NOW and give us a real shot at a Super Bowl. After some thought Loomis says we need to get this person, this person, this person, and this person and I will find a way to make the numbers work. Everyone knew that it may not be a viable long term plan and it would come back to bite us in the ass eventually but it WOULD put us in a position to compete. Everyone agrees it is worth it if it brings us a Super Bowl. At that point we had not ever really won anything.
We all knew it as fans. I have seen scores of posts by some of you for years and years about how this day would eventually come. At the time it didnt really matter because we were in the middle of Super Bowl contention. Hind sight is 20/20 but if someone asked me if I would take one Super Bowl in exchange for the following 10 years of suckage I would have taken it in a heartbeat.
Everyone knew what Loomis was doing. Basically sold the soul to the devil for the big pay off. We all got what we buy tickets to see, a competitive team that was fun as hell to watch.
No matter what happens this offseason we can rebuild and we can get back on top. It may be under a whole new regime, then again it may not. It may take a few years, but good teams not named the Patriots have down periods, its just part of football.
It was fun while it lasted but I have no doubt we will knock Carolina from their high horse in another year or two.
Anyway I am rambling but just a thought.