Saints must make difficult decision for the first time since 1980 after painful loss to Panthers
Rock bottom has arrived for the New Orleans Saints. A losing streak of six games was pretty close to it. Now, they just lost their seventh game in a row, and it came at the hands of the lowly Carolina Panthers. The Saints out-gained and out-possessed Carolina by a large margin. The same old mistakes […]
Rock bottom has arrived for the New Orleans Saints. A losing streak of six games was pretty close to it. Now, they just lost their seventh game in a row, and it came at the hands of the lowly Carolina Panthers.
The Saints out-gained and out-possessed Carolina by a large margin. The same old mistakes bit them in the biggest moments, though. Penalties and questionable decision-making from Dennis Allen and Derek Carr doomed them in the second half.
Saints need to move on from Dennis Allen
They've ran out of excuses. Injuries, bad lack, or anything else simply cannot save Allen at this point. It will be a difficult choice for GM Mickey Loomis to make after he has continually defended the team's head coach over the past two seasons, regardless.
The same issues have plagued the Saints during this losing skid, compared to last season or anytime during Allen's NFL head coaching career.
His teams are heavily penalized, do not convert often enough in the red zone, and play with a lack of an edge in the most important parts of the game.
Allen said more of the same that he has weekly over the past nearly two months of Saints football.
"We got to do a better job of playing, coaching. Hopefully get some guys health. Look, it's going to be hard. It's going to be a challenge. But going through adversity like this builds character." — Allen
The Saints are now 0-2 under Allen when rushing for 195+ yards and having zero turnovers. You read that correctly. The Saints were undefeated, 12-0, when accomplishing those tasks prior to 2022 when Allen became the HC.
The Panthers entered the game widely-believed to be the worst team in football. They were ranked in the bottom five of nearly every statistic on both sides of the football. In Week 9, they got gritty and pulled off the win over New Orleans.
With that outcome, the Saints have no choice but to make a move that they could have made weeks ago or even sometime last year. Dennis Allen must be forced to move on from New Orleans.
