Allen is one of those guys that are too smart for their own good. In key situations he tries things that often backfire because he's outthought himself. Sometimes it's good to just do the tried and tested thing, The irony is he's not exactly what I'd call creative either. He's the type of coach to play the odds which may seem like a contradiction to what I said above, but somehow it isn't when it comes to him. I don't think he is a bad defensive coordinator, as he was a huge upgrade from Rob Ryan. There are better coaches out there though. I wish we would have kept Spags and got him the personnel he needed. I think if Payton never gets suspended, we'd still have Spags and maybe have a couple of SBs as our defense would have been good in years in which our offense was really booming. People really underestimate how much the bountygate bull**** set us back. It screwed up many things that may not seem obvious at first glance. Without it. I think Brees has 3 titles at the very least.

Almost makes you wonder just how much Mike Nolan helped.

All of this talk about Nolan and how good he is. hmmm..., my guess is there is a reason why he hasn’t stuck with any team more than 2 or 3 years as a defensive coordinator. He’s been the defensive coordinator for 8 different NFL teams over a combined 14 years. Things like that don’t just happen randomly, there is a reason

S.Spagnuolo is riding the coattails of one of the most talented and electrifying players to play the game right now, quite possibly..., ever. KC’s defenses suck, the SB win is not bc of his stellar defense, that’s for sure. Very simply, KC’s offense can easily drop a 50 burger on you without batting an eye.

And Wade Phillips? lol, Please tell me we aren’t serious with this guy. Once was enough, I hope to never see him, in any capacity working in the Superdome again. He was fortunate with the players he had during his stint with the Saints back in the early 80’s. It sure wasn’t his coaching.

I’m not a huge fan of Dennis Allen, but looking back over the last few years, and our playoff exits, it wasn’t the coordinator that missed the tackles, the players were put in the proper position to make the plays and the schemes were good, for the most part.

you spelled Sean D E N N I S, thats not how that i spelled

Saints were in the AFC they would have more than 1 SB.

AFC SB winners of the past 20 years has only been 7 different teams.

Steelers, Patriots, Chiefs, Ravens, Colts, Broncos, and Raiders.

Broncos and Colts was both by the same QB and have regressed tremendously since retiring.

I got to respect the chiefs but hate it at the same time that their is nothing else in the AFC to stop them possibly for the next 2-3 years, how weak the AFC has been. If Andy Reids Eagles were in the AFC just imagine the SBs he would of won with them.

Eh, Sean has potential for high creativity in what he does. He does outthink himself, which ironically makes himself look simplistic. What Dennis Allen does is a bit different than what I'm talking about though. Overall though Sean Payton has an attacking mentality and yet has good balance with calling the right type of plays. When Sean Payton is in rhythm, it's a thing of beauty. Sometimes he gets out of rhythm and it just looks ugly. I trust Sean though.

Dennis Allen seems more like a probabilistic/statistical coach to me. He plays the odds, makes adjustments that raises his odds. He doesn't have an attacking mind set. Because Allen is such a statistical thinker, what he does becomes predictable. What should be a good play call for him often turns into a bad play call because it's like he never mixes things up and throws something at his opponents out of no where, so even though his play call matches the situation very well, it's far too clear what's coming. He's a guy that can't see the forest for the trees. He's a smart guy that can't escape from the logical side of things and get into the creative mindset. He gets too caught up in doing the right thing instead of trying to obfuscate at least some of the time. That's one of the reasons I think Nolan was good for him, because I think Nolan has the opposite issue. Nolan is a very out of the box type thinker. A big part of defense in the NFL is just to confuse the **** out of the QB and the offense of the other team. This doesn't seem to be something we strive for.