Sources: Dennis Allen’s recent mishandling of Kendre Miller’s injury created internal frustration, Miller currently healthy but can’t play
In an effort to remain objective, I'm being careful not to implant emotions onto someone else just to satisfy or prop up a desire to get him replace/fired. I dont think he's intentionally try to mind trick us. He's just wrong, period. He's blaming injuries where he should be blaming the coaches inability to win the extremely close games.
I hear ya, and I respect that. I'd be onboard with everything you said, 100%, if ML didn't keep going out of his way to sing DA's praises. Loomis sounds like he's talking about the guy he just HIRED to coach the new era of Saints football, not the guy that was just fired from that position. ML just seems to keep doubling down on his position that DA shouldn't have been fired, and wants everyone to know he didn't agree with that. I find that STRANGE and it really catches my attention. And I can't help but wonder why. It was a wild speculation on my part. In my defense, sometimes the strangest of situations have the strangest explanations. Pure conjecture on my part.....I don't even believe it myself. But I have considered it.
Maybe it's just as simple as ML is enough of a narcissist that he doesn't want to admit it was time to fire DA, so that he can continue to insist that DA was the right coach to lead this team to the playoffs, SB, and HOF; but the team owner intervened prematurely and denied ML the opportunity to show the world just how correct he was and how wrong everyone else is. You can't prove something that never happened, but you can't disprove it either. So maybe this is just ML's way of maintaining that HIS way was the correct way forward. That's plausible too.
Either way, I think we're in agreement. I'm just kind of shocked, and somewhat amused, to hear ML continue to sing the praises of the dude that was just fired. Not in a "valuable contributor, team-player, long-term employee, thank you for your service" kind of way, but in a "this guy didn't deserve to be fired" kind of way. SMH...