Saints fired Dennis Allen

Yep. Loomis even mentioned in the NOF interview that he thinks one of the reasons this is an attractive job is because this is a "first class organization" with a good reputation around the league. I think he thinks part of that is that it's a team that tends not to fire coaches mid-season, gives them time to prove they deserve the job, and does whatever they can do financially to give the coach the team he wants.

I understand the thought about not firing a coach in mid-season. Although in this case I don't think it makes the organization look like they panicked or jumped the gun. Any potential coach can see how abysmal Dennis Allen was doing and that there was not hardly any other choice but to fire him mid season. I don't think that would keep a potential coach for coming to coach here. This situation was just so bad that was really all that could be done.