spkb25

I have already answered this, but I'd be on the phone to Harbaugh. I don't think there's a chance in hell at plucking him from Michigan. SP was an unknown, for the most part, when he got here. His name had been out there for a HC job, but that's not a guarantee. But I am not so sure that 7-9 is really all that difficult to replace. And I am not someone who says he cannot coach anymore, I think he can, but I think he needs a new start.

Euphoria

I haven't seen anyone leave the broadcasting booth.

Why on earth would you the job is better... less stress and you get more money.

rezburna

I wouldn't mind Harbaugh or Gruden.

SaintFanQ

Exactly! Everyone is entitled to their opinion on SP. Keep him/Let him go/one more year, etc. etc. But WHO would you replace him with?

The same applies if Brees were to go for whatever reasons you might have, although I would assume most Saints fans, including myself, want Brees to stay.

IMO we have the best QB in the league!

GEAUX SAINTS!

spkb25

I'd replace him with someone that can find a way to win more than 7 games, and someone who can solve the riddle of starting off the season like 0-3

AsylumGuido

Like who? Someone that wins 4 games and starts out 0-6? Get use to it if your dream comes true.

voodooido

Okay, since no one has any ideas on who the new coach should be we should be happy with 7 wins seasons. Get used to mediocrity Saints fans

SaintFanInATLHELL

There are at least three competing ideas going on above. Let's unpack them:

1. Frustrated with 7-9. Clear and understandable.

2. A new coach will eliminate #1. Odds are against.

3. Nothing is changing. True but not due to no idea of new coach.

Well that's the norm in the NFL, so it's not unexpected. There's a reason that 20-40% of the league turns over coaching staffs each and every year. There's also the fact that playoff teams turn over close to half the roster from year to year.

So it seems that the issue from your viewpoint in short is that there is only one Bill Belichick, and the Saints do not have him. And coaching trees do not work. Folks like Crennel, McDaniels, and the like who have had opportunities did not turn their organization into the Patriots.

The fact is that folks like Payton, McCarthy, and Harbaugh (the Ravens one), have in fact accomplished the task where folks who are arguably better, such as Andy Reid, or back in the day Marty Shottenheimer couldn't get done, and that's win a SuperBowl.

Payton and the other past single/double winners will each likely go the path of Tom Coughlin. It's going to take having someone on the coaching staff that's doing such a magnificent job that when the vultures come a calling, the organization panics and elevates the guy to keep them.

Considering that the last two times this has happened has been in New York and Tampa Bay, both of which are trending up after the boot of Coughlin and Lovie Smith, that may end up being the new NFL trend for cycling coaches.

But honestly do you see either Carmichael or Dennis Allen as one of those guys? Allen has already had his shot with the Raiders, and it didn't go well.

The bottom line is that changes need to have a plan if you want to execute them. History already tells us that 7-9 and 8-8 are not an impediment to jumping up and grabbing the ring the very next year. Just look at Dallas this year. From 4-12 to likely 13-3 in a single year. We all know that Jason Garrett should have been fired last year after going 4-12, right? Or Carolina's 12-4 7-8-1 15-1 and likely 7-9 the last 4 years.

A lot of times this is simply due to the cycle of the schedule. Play a couple of weak divisions with an up year for your team and a down year for your division and suddenly you're 13-3 and have home field.

As far as I can see, there's only one guy that's proven it in the NFL and doesn't yet have the ring: Jim Harbaugh. But short of teleporting Michigan's campus off planet while Harbaugh is off scouting, I cannot see how to pry the guy away.

Look, if new meant better, then the Browns should be in the playoffs this year. I'll take stable mediocrity over an unstable mess like that any day of the week.

SFIAH

Super Bowl Championships: New Orleans Saints:1, Carolina:0, Atlanta Chokers: STILL ZERO

Only Atlanta choked in an unchokable situation... Life is definitely good.

spkb25

Oh God here we go. Yeah 4 wins and blah b;lah blah. You better get used to it man, you're going to get 4 wins, how you like that.

How the F do you know, you don't? But right now I know damn well what I have in SP, 7-9, falling down in the biggest games, starting off atrocious.

Jim Haslett
10-6, 7-9, 9-7, 8-8, 8-8.
Besides 09-11, and Jim's final season (which was beyond his control) they look remarkably similar.

Like I have said, I don't think it is that SP can't coach anymore, I think he needs some new digs. 7-9 aint cutting it.

Give me Harbaugh, but besides that look at the job Jack has done in Oakland. Not to say I am looking for him, but I am saying, there are coaches out there.

If SP stays, and my gut says he will because the contract is way too new, I hope we are 13-3 and in the SB next year. I do think that is impossible either.

Your team stinks

AsylumGuido

No I don't know. None of us do. What would have been our record at this point if we hadn't been totally decimated by injuries? But, of course, all of those injuries have to be blamed on Payton, right? Del Rio could have done no better. Perhaps Harbaugh could have prevented all of those trips to the IR.