DA did a lot for the Saints and New Orleans as the secondary coach in our Super Bowl run and as a DC he helped keep Brees and Sean going for another 4-5 seasons and ended our defensive nightmare overnight.
That’s debatable. Dennis Allen never had a top 5 defensive ranking without Ryan Neilson. In fact when Dennis Allen took over after Rob Ryan was fired his defense was ranked in the mid twenties. When Ryan Neilson joined the Saints his 1st year that was when we saw overnight success with the defense as a whole. Neilson turned the Saints defensive line into a force holding teams to less than a 100 yards rushing for three years breaking records.