Was Loomis Taken out of Context By His Remarks (Comparing DA to Coaching Greats)

No2DC said

That's not a good sign when you have to dig into football archives to justify your support. He's comparing coaches from totally different eras. In today's game, it's unheard of for a losing coach to get past three years (if that). Just say we still support Dennis and stop gaslighting the fans.

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I wasnt exactly giving Allen a huge amount of support. I was making an argument that historically, among the names Loomis listed as HC's who were terrible in their first tenures became great somewhere else, only Belichek succeeded in his second attempt and 85-90% of that unprecedented success was largely due to Tom Brady. Belicheck was a great DC for New York Giants in the 1980's while winning two Super Bowls but those werent his teams, they were Parcells squads.

Again, Allen, IMHO, is a poor man's Haslett, except that DA was and still is a better DC than Haslett ever could hope to be here in 1996 with Mora, in Pittsburgh from 1997-99, or in Washington under Mike Shanahan.