In defense of Allen (gulp)

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.
That's such worn out and lazy thing to say. The Raiders were a total dumpster fire at the time. So Allen didn't go in as a first time head coach and totally rebuild it into a power house in two seasons. That obviously means that there's absolutely no possibility of him ever being a decent coach. Nobody has ever succeeded at a second chance. Ever!

It's just a tired old trope.