I chuckled at this Erik McCoy quote from a NOF Article

I don't have any disdain for Dennis Allen and pretty luke warm on him. I think he is a better coordinator than coach but I will say this; I'm probably one of last people that you need to tell "it was a Pete thing" because I was one of the first people to tell you "it was a Pete thing." The problem with DA and Pete is most people were a season late, as they blamed the lack of a calming presence and then somebody forgot how to play their booty off, so we needed a savior, as Pete was being hamstrung by our 2022 QBs...lol. That is why we went and got DA's guy without any other changes. Then the issues that were there the whole time became visible to the masses. But to say I have a disdain for Dennis Allen shows you don't know that I talked way more about Sneaky Pete than I did DA.

To be fair, they tried to get rid of Pete after the 2022 season but the two or three guys they wanted turned them down. The mistake they made was thinking that Pete was better than the other available guys in 2022.