Dennis Allen confirms that Mickey Loomis was not in favor of firing him after Panthers loss (1 Viewer)

[Bayouboy]

The scary part about this, is Loomis may have used the "injury excuse" to give DA and the staff another shot in 2025!!! Loomis was adamant last year that "we have the right guys in the building". Let that sink in a bit.

 

[BayouSAINTJoe]

In retrospect, the firing really accomplished nothing.

It accomplished something...it got DA which was a cancer to the organization away from the organization. He lost the players, and there was no point in keeping him once that happened.

Crazy part was that the players actually thought that at the end of LAST season that DA was getting fired.

 

[Rouxble]

The fans had nothing to do with it. This was a move for the players. He had completely lost the team. Benson had to go behind his back to contact the players then pull rank on Loomis to make it.

We won 3 games after he was fired, I'd say the team was significantly better off for it. Rizzi was just given an impossible challenge of trying to turn around a culture that had turned soft for 3 years.

Rizzi had a strength of victory of .275 (combined opponent record of 14-37), I wouldn't say he did much that any HC (including Allen) couldn't have done. I agree with those who say the midseason firing didn't really do much, as per usual.

 

[S4lNTS]

I know people assume Loomis would have fired DA after the season, but don’t think that would have been a certainty. Especially if you consider DA a “fantastic coach” and the “circumstances created the record”.

 

[St. Geezy]

Yay! Everyone gets to vent their anger out at ML again, this time for something they already knew and vented out about already!

Pile on…there’s room for everyone!

 

[Madmarsha]

Expected. Loomis is patient, he likely would have fired him, but not in middle of season ....

.... just six months, at least, too late.

 

[SAINTSFAN]

Allen is a good guy, but he didn't belong as a head coach. Glazer looks bored listening to Dennis.

Pretty unprofessional to leave before addressing the players just because you did not want cameras on you. A professional addresses their subordinates/co-workers personally before leaving.

 

[Rouxble]

 

[No2DC]

Yay! Everyone gets to vent their anger out at ML again, this time for something they already knew and vented out about already!

Pile on…there’s room for everyone!

What else are we to do after three consecutive losing seasons? Let the mob have their fun, it's not like Mick is going to get fired.

 

[Sumdude34]

DA absolutely deserved to be fired mid-season, and it would have been irresponsible not to. The product on the field had become unwatchable. The players were bordering on mutiny and would have started turning on eachother again like the year before.

And through all of that, Allen did not lift a finger to address any of. And apparently neither did Loomis.

Allen got fired because the players wanted him to be fired. Allen got fired because fans stopped coming to the game. Heck, fans stopped even talking about the games. This forum was a ghost town (myself included).

We may not have won many more games than expected under Rizzi, but we competed. They players actually tried. There was a reason to turn the games on. I will happily take that over dragging a broken lockeroom and fandbase over the finish line to spare a mediocre coach's pride.

 

[Hubig]

The selector of the next head football coach, ladies and gentlemen.

 

[St.Dan]

Shout out to DA. He was a darn good defensive coordinator.

As I used to say during his tenure, some guys are lieutenants and others are generals. You have to be a general to be a leader of men in football. DA was an excellent lieutenant and coordinated the defense during a period of resurgence for that unit (2017-21) versus what it was the previous period of time (2014-16). But he wasn't and isn't a general, personality-wise.

Plus, other details since his firing that have come to light, mainly the lack of mandated dynamic stretches before games, are just baffling to me.

 

[kcirdor]

Pretty unprofessional to leave before addressing the players just because you did not want cameras on you. A professional addresses their subordinates/co-workers personally before leaving.

Yea this is something we did not know, so cudos to DA for outing himself.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

LOL I can't wait for this year's version of the Loomis year end press conference.