Do you think Dennis Allen could succeed (1 Viewer)

[saintsmarchin]

Coaching your kid's peewee football team?

 

[BBarnes]

I would probably let him work the gate or concession because he seems to be really good at collecting money and just standing there doing nothing.

 

[jrdbrn]

I think Dennis Allen would succeed as a Defensive Coordinator again.

 

[LonghornSaintsFan]

He would be best handing out bottles of water.

 

[MSUSousaphone]

I think Dennis Allen is a great HC with one major flaw of being too loyal to his OC much the same way CSP struggled being too loyal to Vitt. Put a good OC with DA and this team would be humming. But if he can't shake that flaw, Pete will drag him down to eternity.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

You lost me right here:

I think Dennis Allen is a great HC...

 

[solarbear88]

I think he could have succeeded as a HC in the NFL had he been able to find an OC. It became quite clear he had no answers to the offensive woes. Saints fans and players were begging for something to change and nothing did. He lost credibility as a HC then.

 

[gavinj]

How good are the kids at choppin wood?

 

[Paul]

I agree with the sentiment of a few previous posters: a head coach is only as good as the coaching staff around him. Now I know you have the greats who would have likely pulled off a winning season with this talent and lesser coaching staff, but that’s not the norm, IMO.

 

[Grand Master BJC]

I think DA thrives as a Defensive coordinator but does not have the leadership and motivational skills to run an entire team of men

 

[Plow]

I believe DA could succeed by bringing in a tried and true offensive coordinator to handle all of the details and prep needed for the offense to succeed.

This would allow DA to fully focus on the defensive side, which fell off since the early part of the season, when his attention got drawn to the offense.

Carmichael needs to be swapped out after the season for a new OC as well as a new O-line coach.

 

[RebSaint]

There are 32 positions available to coach an NFL team. 6-7 of those are available usually every year. There have been hundreds, perhaps thousands of people who are great position coaches and coordinators who cannot successfully be a HC in the NFL.

Being an NFL HC is like being the CEO of a major corporation; one has to see the big picture and know the granular details regarding anything from injuries, the salary cap, and knowing how to lead all kinds of different people.

DA is not a good HC because it's a completely different skill set from a positions coach or coordinator.

One of the hallmarks of great coaching across the board is being great at situational football--3rd down, red-zone, turnover ratio, penalties, doubling up the scoring at the end of one half and beginning the 3rd quarter, etc. etc.

The Saints are AWFUL at situational football, something they were great at most years Payton was here.

 

[Saint KayBee]

It’s 2008. The Saints are 8-7, at home playing the Panthers, who sit at 11-4 and can clinch the division and a first-round bye with a win. Star QB Drew Brees has directed his team to more points through 15 games than all but one team would score in 16, and is 402 yards away from breaking Dan Marino’s 24-year-old single-season passing yardage record. However, this team sits in the NFC South basement, and even a win won’t lift them out, as Tampa holds all relevant tiebreakers. All that’s left to cheer for are a winning record and Brees’ pursuit of the yardage mark. This will surprise no one, but the Saints called 51 passes to 11 runs this game. Saints head coach Sean Payton’s intentions are obvious, and so too are those of Panthers head coach John Fox, who’s going to try to shorten the game by leaning heavily on his running backs. This will surprise no one, but the Panthers called 42 runs to 21 passes this game.

The Panthers’ plan is working. The Saints’ plan… is not going so well. Carolina’s first four possessions end in points, while the Saints have an opening drive three-and-out, an interception, and a fumbled kickoff returned for a TD putting them in a 23-3 hole. The Panthers have called more run plays than the Saints have called total plays, to this point. Something is very wrong with this defense; everyone knows runs are coming but they just cannot stop them. Even the final run before half goes for a big gain.

Remarkably, the Saints have taken a 31-30 lead late in the fourth quarter on Brees’ second touchdown pass to Lance Moore and fourth total, giving him 5,069 passing yards on the season. The crowd erupts and, with nothing else to root for, hope at least the defense can protect this lead and give Brees one last chance to break the record.

After the kickoff, former Saints QB Jake Delhomme comes to the line of scrimmage, inside his own 20. Unlike Brees, a spreader of the wealth — eight different Saints have a catch in this game — Delhomme has only completed passes today to Steve Smith, Muhsin Muhammad, and DJ Hackett, who you just remembered was ever in the league. Delhomme scans the defense and, despite the pressure closing in on him, thinks to himself “Steve down there somewhere, sha!” and launches a prayer that neither Roman Harper nor Jason David can break up. The Panthers, now running plays on the Saints’ side of the field, wring more clock before future Saints kicker John Kasay connects on a game-winner with :01 remaining.

Ten days later the Saints fired Gary Gibbs, the defensive coordinator for that and four other one-score losses in which either he couldn’t get a stop to prevent a broken tie, or the offense’s efforts to fight back out of the hole were halted by the defense’s inability to get a third-down stop. The 2009 defense played an aggressive, complementary style of football that led to a championship.

Sometimes all a middle-of-the-road team needs is a coordinator change.

 

[Saintamaniac]

I wouldn't even be mad if the new HC rehired Allen to be the DC.....once he's fired.

 

[Saintgirlytake2]

Coaching your kid's peewee football team?

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