This game is a microcosm of why Dennis Allen will not last as Head Coach!!!!
My criticism (in this thread and elsewhere on the Forum) of Gayle is perhaps very much too harsh. I have no real standing to assault her love of NOLA or the Saints, but I do stand by my criticism of the organization. Change needs to happen, and it needs to happen with force. It is hard to win in the NFL and there is no shame in losing when your team is beat by talent or superior coaching; but when this happens the organization needs to reflect on how to improve and close that gap. Right now all we have is "trust the process", and that frankly requires more faith and patience than is justified. DA is a smart man, and Pete Carmichael is as well. They didn't get to their positions by being idiots or brown-nosers. They are capable of change, but the insularity of football - just look at how endlessly retread coaches and coordinators are in the NFL! - I think limits them to trusting what they have done. Innovation only works if it works ... and while there is truth to that a lack of innovation doesn't work at all. And that is where we are at.