Mickey Loomis on firing Dennis Allen on WWL Radio:
“I think Dennis Allen is a fantastic football coach, and I think anybody in our league who would talk about him thinks he’s a fantastic football coach. He is. I think in this case, look, the circumstances created the record. That’s just the truth, and a lot of people don’t want to hear it.
"I mean, we get silly things written, like, ah, the players aren’t parking in the right spots. I mean, that’s ridiculous. Players have been parking out there for the last 15 years, you know. Look, because we’ve got construction going on. We’ve got 100 more employees than we had 10 years ago. That’s just silly. And to equate that with discipline is silly, too. I mean, we’re the eighth – going into this last game we were the eighth fewest penalties in the league. That’s more of a comment on discipline than where a player parks, for crying out loud.
"But it just gets right back to what stares at you right in the face is that we’ve had an abnormal amount of injuries, including to our quarterback, and we haven’t been able to overcome that, and so that puts pressure and stress on the organization and ultimately it was cause for a change.”
Dennis Allen on his future as the head coach of the Saints.
"I'm going to keep coming in every day and fight my a** off, just like every single day that I've been here.
DA said it’s on the coaches to coach the details better and hold players accountable and the players have a responsibility to meet those standards and hold themselves to it