Jeff Duncan on Sean Payton 2023

It’s not about letting them go, Nielsen and Richard aren’t simply going to accept being demoted from their current role for a guy who failed. They’d both choose to leave, or look incredibly weak. There isn’t any business where someone gets promoted to the top job then demoted after a year like nothing happened.
DA is still essentially our defensive coordinator anyway. He’s clearly still calling the defensive plays on game day. Sure they would lose “co- DC coordinator” title but it’s not like they’re truly the DC’s anyway. Or we could just make Allen Assistant Head Coach and Nielsen/Richard keep their DC title