This is my final takedown of Dennis Allen.
The fact that you are saying that in a way that makes it seem like its something you didn't want, really makes you scratch your head. I'm not sure what else you'd need to see to say the man doesn't have the first bit of head coaching ability in his body. The 9-8 last year was a pure mirage. Id venture to say 28 teams in the NFL that played that schedule would've been somewhere around 9-8. This year, we played actual quarterbacks. And it went exactly like the rational who dats said it would. Oh the sunshine pumpers were on a high horse the first 2 weeks though. Mirage.
Loomis should be fired (among a myriad of other draft trades and flops, cap disasters and press conference gas lighting) just for hiring him to begin with and giving him 2 1/2 years to knead his own ego with the hopes of looking like the smartest guy in the room again. It took GAYLE poking around with the players to make a change. If that aint proof your life cycle as a GM is over, I'm not sure what is.
So Allen ends his head coaching career at 26-53. The 2nd worst head coach in the history of the NFL with 75+ games coached. And far and away the worst in the free agency era. He lost more than 2 games per win. He entered the 2024 season with a .371 career win %, and he brought that DOWN. The excuses ran dry. Amy Trask was right all along. Eventually when you run out of excuses, when every avenue leads to the same place, when after 6 years as a head coach you are still just as bad as year 1......its over.