General manager Mickey Loomis makes weekly appearances WWL Radio with Mike Hoss Addressing the obvious on Tuesday evening trade Marshon Lattimore and ignition Dennis Allen. Loomis did not speak to the media following the move. expression This is the first time we hear from him. Loomis said conversations around Lattimore have only recently taken place.

Loomis said, “I think it was really just last week that there was speculation that he was being traded, which, based on our records, would encourage those calls, and we’ve had a lot of calls over the last four or five days.”

Trading Lattimore gave the Saints several draft picks for next year’s draft and received a 3rd Round, 4th Round and 6th Round pick from Washington in exchange for himself and a 5th Round pick. Round 6 was the play the Saints used to acquire John Ridgeway III. Loomis looks at it like moving up in the draft. The consequences of moving on from him are just over $36 million in dead money added to the salary cap.

“It gets complicated because there’s an acceleration from depreciating bonuses and some things like that, but yeah, I mean listen, we’re not doing that; You know, you said it right. We have $18 million a year for the next two years that we can use elsewhere, but let me tell you this, Marshon has been a great player for us. He was a great draft pick. You know, he was the defensive rookie of the year we drafted him, ’17, and he made the Pro Bowl a couple of times. He’s an amazing player. He was a good teammate and I have only good things to say about Marshon. Unfortunately, he’s had some soft tissue injuries to deal with and a few other injuries to deal with over the last few years, but I still believe he’s one of the best cornerbacks in our league and Washington is getting a good player for playoff contention. here and in his runs, so I wish him nothing but the best, I really do. “We finally came to an agreement that I thought was good for us, good value for us, and that’s why we did it.”

When it came to Dennis Allen, Loomis reiterated much of what was said in his statement but clarified it. He also touched on his column about the players and the parking lot.

“Look, I think Dennis Allen is a great football coach, and I think everybody in our league that talks about him thinks he’s a great football coach. He is. I think in this case, look, the circumstances created the record. That’s the truth, and a lot of people don’t want to hear it. I mean, the players are right.” We write nonsense like they don’t park there. That’s ridiculous. Players have been parking there for the last 15 years, you know, we have 100 more employees than we had 10 years ago. So it’s stupid. I mean, we’re 8th; going into the last game we were the 8th team with the fewest penalties in the league. This is a comment on discipline rather than where a player is parked for crying out loud, but what’s staring you right in the face, including our playmaker. “We had an abnormal amount of injuries and we couldn’t handle it, which put pressure and stress on the organization and ultimately led to a change.”

Loomis did not address the team on Monday, leaving the matter to Darren Rizzi. He thought he did a great job talking to the team and the media and explaining one thing he wanted to do differently. Our goal is to make a fast start to the second half of the season.

“I think he’s a pretty obvious choice, given his experience, the special teams coach role you just described, you know, when you’re in that role you deal with just about every player on the team, so that’s a voice our Players have heard before. He’s in front of a large group of players.” He’s used to being and presenting, he always has a great personality and a great positive attitude and you know, he was one of the candidates when we hired Dennis Allen and he did really strong in his interviews, so I think it was an obvious choice.

“Rizzi always had an enthusiastic personality. He’s got kind of a fighter mentality and you can feel that just having a casual conversation with him, so I think that’s been received really well by our team and certainly by our staff and our players. “It is a really difficult situation.”

Loomis said the team won’t be really active in searching for a coach right now, but will do so once the season is over. He focused on what was happening inside the building and brought up the fact that he had been through this process before, back in 2005, when he faced difficulties. He also talked about the situation of the team and of course the disappointment felt by the fans.

“Losing games is no fun. You know, it’s as bad as our fans feel and believe me, we all feel 10 times worse, but I can’t describe it to you. You can’t just wallow around. You’ve got to get off the mat and show some fight and that goes for every single person in the building and for the next eight weeks.” “We will see what we will experience in it.”

Loomis added that he does not question the efforts of the coaching staff and players; Dennis Allen said this too. But he is not good enough yet and needs to achieve even wins. He talked about how they lost their top two receivers, top two cornerbacks, three interior linemen and a quarterback this year. The Saints know there were a few plays where they had the final possession of the game and had a chance to win the game but failed to do so.

“The other team made some plays and that’s how close it is, you just pointed out, it’s not that far from being 5-4 compared to 2-7 but it’s still 2-7 so we We have to have it.

Wednesday is a new era for the Saints and they have three critical months to evaluate where they are, where they are going and how they will get there.