Dennis Allen confirms that Mickey Loomis was not in favor of firing him after Panthers loss

Broad St. Saint said

Dennis Allen inherited a Saints team coming off 5 straight winning seasons.

Virtually no new coach steps into such a position. That's a pretty good hand! The only better situation I could envision in today's NFL involves either Andy Reid's health making him retire, or the Steelers (idiotically IMHO) firing Mike Tomlin. Bowles with the Bucs stepping in for Arians after the latter retired is the only similar new coach situation recently I can think of off the top of my head.

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When you are 30% and growing over the Cap. you can't really do to much for roster turnover. You can't afford to sign veteran Back up QBs, you really can't do too much in terms of roster changes. So you are stuck with an aging team. We knew this off-season we were one Oline man injury away from disaster. Couldn't do much, because we had to reign in the excess OTC. Allen had no shot with the hand he was dealt. The cap should have been fixed by now and maybe Allen would have had a shot. "but we missed on draft classes" yea no sheet... we also didn't have any money to supplement that failure.