USA Today Ranks Dennis Allen Worst Head Coach in the League

KleinBottle said

I thought *everything* was the head coach’s responsibility on here? All season long people have insisted that Dennis Allen is singularly at fault for the 2022-23 offenses being bad, even though he’s coached defense for dang near three decades? But Payton gets a “we all know the defense was bad” trap door to slide out of and … that’s that? Responsibility vanishes into thin air? It’s comical the way y’all set up these talking points just to directly contradict them some posts later.

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You're being silly. Nobody is saying Payton was perfect and there were many seasons where people were calling for his head. Payton has his flaws too. He was excessively loyal to bad coaches and even certain players and the team suffered at different points because of that at times. That was his fault. But he was also a great leader of men, master motivator and game planner. Better DCs could benefit from him being such a good offensive coach and I think DA being a great DC did benefit from that. Even with all of his flaws, he managed to accumulate 10 winning seasons and 9 playoff births in his time here.

There is much evidence that DA can coach a defense. He's very good at that. That said, who is DA leading and motivating? Which OC has he benefited by being a good defensive coach? Is there any evidence that he has ever made a team better as a head coach. I'm not saying he is for sure never going to do any of those things as a head coach, but I haven't seen it yet.