Fire Dennis Allen Billboard
One of the thing that I noticed about DA supporters, the majority of their points/arguments rarely consider context....at all.....
Same can be said about DA and Loomis haters. Everything is in absolutes with no grey areas. All we hear about is all his failures but when something positive happens, it was despite his coaching. Damn if he does and damn if he dont. When another team fires someone or does something the Saints have done in the past, it doesn't count because we haven't fired DA or PC mid-season. Teams who fire their coach midseason or make knee jerk reactions are well managed despite the fact they are perennial bottom dwellers (Carolina, Atlanta, Washington, San Diego). When we talk about Payton's coaching, the failure to remember how he was loyal to friends for a long time and kept terrible coaches that everyone wanted gone. You can't cherry pick what you dislike about one coach and act like it doesn't matter for a coach you do like.
I dont like a LOT of DA's decisions, but I also don't have an axe to grind with him and let that delude my thinking to be always negative. I want the Saints to succeed and dont act like I am a GM and know that all the fault lies with DA, coaches, players, scouting or whatever happens behind the scenes which none of us have a clue about. I have a list of things I didn't like about DA.
- His handling of the Atlanta TD was terrible, he should have publicly took ownership and chewed out the players behind the scene.
- I think he gets lost during the games and does a poor job of adjusting.
- I think he is loyal to PC to a fault.
I also recognize that the team played well in the stretch and if we would have had of this productivity in the first 8 games we would have easily been 11-6. He has coached well enough for another year but I am not oppose of him being fired. I won't look at everything one sided and skew things to my argument.
Also as far as the comparison of Dan Campbell. He makes some bonehead decisions. He is loud and energetic personality and has lots of charisma. That doesn't make him a great coach per se, but it does make him fun to root for. He literally went for it on a 2 point conversion after a 5 yard penalty when he could have tied the game. He risked seeding because of a bonehead decisions. If that was DA, you guys would have burned his house down.