neugey

Coaching is like cooking: not everyone can do it, but when it's done completely wrong everyone can smell it and taste it.

I won't sign the petition because the organization is going to need to figure it out for themselves. It's above my pay grade.

mapcow

Saints future - Team will consist of NFL has beens, and future hall of famer rookies(whom will be traded for more has beens)..... the circle is complete.

Trust me....its true.



So glad to have witnessed the Saints SuperBowl Win... Bounty Gate...and the saints players knocking the snot out of opponents. When football was actually football. Not sure, the play of today amounts to football of any sort. Maybe finesse_ball.

Rugby Saint II

That is what the team was like before. Tom Benson was a used car dealer and he ran the team like a dealership. Sell the valuable stuff and bring in cheap stuff. That is not a winning formula and Tom Benson finally figured that out. I doubt that we will ever go back to that level of obscurity, but you never know with Dennis Allen.

TheOak

Word on the street is that Dennis Allen signed it after Monday nights game.

K Major

Lol!

Sinner

“I have confidence in our offense and what we’re doing. We just have to be more consistent in what we’re doing.” - Dennis Allen after the loss against the Bucs.

voodooido

These are the same fans wanting him to take over for SP last year. One and done is stupid. Give the guy a chance. He had no qb and was in cap hell

K Major

Are we talking about the same HC who went 4-12, 4-13, 0-4 in Oakland?

Now CURRENTLY 4-9 in New Orleans?

Gotcha.

Dennis may be a decent DC but he’s not HC material.

The excuses on why he isn’t winning games is getting a bit old.

Boston Saint

Man the Payton era blinded and spoiled a whole lot of “fans”.

Boston Saint

Well, I think when evaluating Allen’s performance this year some are glossing over the impact that Injuries and Refs had and are dumping a little too much on his shoulders…especially anything to do with the Raiders.

Some people may be unaware of the sorry state of the Raider franchise and their MO from about 94 on. A really good coach like Gruden who had a good QB in Gannon was able to have short term success. But they ran him out of town because of Al Davis’ ego.

I was living 12 miles from Oakland during the Allen tenure (as well as years before and after) so I heard their news daily and watched their games each week (when not blacked out) and tell you he was not the reason the team struggled. Here were the Raider win totals going backwards from his first 4-12 season:
8
8
5
5
4
2
4
5
4

It was a dysfunctional franchise. Crazy Al Davis was running things his way and that included player/coaching decisions. They had drafted Jamarcus Russell. They had no quality QB in years before he took over. Allen drafted Carr, the only decent player at the position since Rich Gannon. One year after drafting Carr he’s fired and Oakland has a 12 win season the year after that with the QB Allen wanted leading the team. But guess what…they were back to a 6 win season the next year and a 4 win season again the year after that. Point is hardly anyone was going to have success at Oakland during that time.

A lot of users here seem to remember Payton having last year’s Saints team playing much more competitively than this year’s team. They weren’t. In games not started by Winston last year the Saints were 4-6. They got blown out 40 to 29 by Philadelphia and 31 to 6 by Buffalo. It could be a part of the reason Payton cut bait and “retired”…he knew it was going to be tough sledding.

And I’ll say this again for the dozenth time, I don’t point these things out in support of Allen as being the coach next year. I say them because they are facts that should be considered.

I think different coaching decisions may have added 2 to 3 more wins for the team. I also think that fair refereeing would’ve added those same three wins just like players not fumbling or making catches (or Ingram not blowing out a knee one yard short of a first) would have added three wins to the team. We’d then be looking at a 7-6 team very similar as we were to last year about this time.

You think you know, but you don’t know...and you never will! Coach Jim Mora