New Orleans Saints head coach Dennis Allen watches a playback during the first half of a preseason NFL football game against the Tennessee Titans at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune) New Orleans Saints head coach Dennis Allen answers questions from the press about practice on the eleventh day of training camp at Crawford Field at University of California, Irvine, Calif.
, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune) The outside noise surrounding the New Orleans Saints has reached decibel levels almost like what you hear in Caesars Superdome on a Sunday afternoon.
That's what happens after three straight seasons of missing the playoffs, including the last two years under head coach Dennis Allen. The noise will become downright deafening if things don’t turn around in what certainly must be a make-or-break season for Allen. Another season missing the playoffs, and you can probably forget all that patience that Saints general manager Mickey Loomis talked about when he pulled that notecard out of his pocket in January and compared Allen’s record in his first two seasons to the early careers of coaching legends Tom Landry, Chuck Noll, Bill Walsh and Bill Belichick.
“Sometimes the hard thing to do is to be patient and recognize your other shortcomings and get those fixed, and that’s what we’re doing,” Loomis said that day. Here's what that fixing has entailed. In Year 1, Allen revam.