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

St. Widge said
On the other hand, this also demonstrates to potential coaches that Loomis will have their back even if the owner wants to fire them and that it took the owner stepping in to make Loomis fire a coach in his third year on a 7 game losing streak.

Obviously not a good thing that it took this long for Loomis to fire DA or that Benson had to step in. But, from the perspective of a potential coach it sure makes Loomis look loyal to a fault.

I hear you, and obviously one candidate could view it differently from the next I suppose, but one could also take away from it that the GM had DA's back and it didn't matter.

At the end of the day...Loomis should have simply owned the decision rather than throwing Gayle under the bus, IMO.