It’s fair to question the strength of Dennis Allen’s job security. The New Orleans Saints head coach has come out of Week 7 with a 2-5 record for the second time in three years; last year at this time he had them at 3-4. After getting beaten badly by his former boss Sean Payton (whose Denver Broncos enjoyed a 33-10 rout on Thursday night), it’s valid to question Allen’s status.
That’s what Richard Sherman did on the Amazon Prime said at halftime, suggesting the poor effort he was seeing from good players on the New Orleans defense would lead to Allen getting dismissed from his post. The Saints had been outscored 16-3 at that point. They were outscored 17-7 afterwards.
After the game Allen said he disagreed with Sherman’s assessment, but when asked if he was concerned about his job security, he glanced down at his podium and responded with a curt, “No.”
Right now he’s looking to take ten days of rest between this loss and a road game with the Los Angeles Chargers and evaluate their options, looking at everything from who he’s starting on defense to who can return from injuries and whether it should be Spencer Rattler or Jake Haener filling in for Derek Carr. If general manager Mickey Loomis or team owner Gayle Benson chooses to dismiss him and go in a different direction, he’d feel blindsided. At least that’s the impression you get from how dismissively he treated that question.
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