In defense of Allen (gulp)

stadanko said
Whether you like him or not, he's not going anywhere for at least two seasons.

1. This was Mickey's hire. He can't admit defeat that easily. He decided to preserve the current culture, and he will stick by that for at least two seasons.
2. We're not exactly a destination for new coaches anymore. We've traded away a ton of draft capital and we have aging/oft-injured players on high-cost contracts. We wouldn't be able to attract a good coach candidate for next season because they have very little to build with.

We probably should have ripped the band-aid and tried to find an exciting young coach during the last offseason while there was still some allure to this job.

1) This is Gayles boat. If its a rebuild, Mickey needs to go too. He hired Allen, he is the personnel guy. We have had 2 seasons with a bunch of paper champions on the inactive list. When you hunt for guys in the draft trying to be the smartest person in the room, or looking for bargains in the draft, FA and resigning due to injury history - you cant be too shocked when you have players who continue their injury history. We have 3 first round picks in 2 small school, raw DE's and they have a half a sack between them. 1 of them doesnt even get to wear a uniform on Sundays. Then theres the TE situation. The RB2 situation. QB. Andrus Peat. Pete Carmichael. You look up and down this roster and its Loomis decisions. He got credit for building the Saints, he should get just as much blame for the roster, draft and cap situation.

2) We were the LAST destination for new coaches in 2006. Maybe historically last. But regardless of how bad the situation is, there are only 32 of these jobs on earth and only about 6 on average are open each year. You go out and find the right guy, and dont settle on an in house guy who had an 8-28 career record on his resume.