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Although it’s not totally shocking, it’s nevertheless difficult to accept.The New Orleans Saints are placing a strong emphasis on head coach Dennis Allen, as reported by Jeff Duncan of Nola.com for FOX 8 WVUE. Support from both ownership and management ensures that Allen will stay in this role beyond the 2022 campaign. Despite Allen’s squad’s underperformance in every facet, it seems as though Gayle Benson, the team owner and general manager

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are giving him a pass.

It’s difficult to see this choice as anything other than a blunder. Under Allen, the Saints have stumbled to a 6-9 record and haven’t won consecutive games until Weeks 15 and 16. If Allen completes the season as scheduled, he will have coached in the NFL for four seasons without ever leading his team to victory (albeit, as mentioned above, he was fired following a 0-4 start in 2014). As a head coach in the pros, he is currently 14-37. The Saints are fortunate to have prevailed in as many games this season despite finishing 5-3 in games decided by a single point; those are situations when things may easily turn out differently. Teams who are lucky tend to win more one-score games than lose. Effective teams steer clear of them from the start.

The Saints gave Allen full coaching authority, knowing that he would take them to the postseason. Rather, they have been among the NFL’s teams with the highest number of penalties and turnovers. Recent victories over the Cleveland Browns and Atlanta Falcons are mentioned in Duncan’s report as causes for hope, but really, these are the Browns and Falcons. This past weekend, both clubs were eliminated from the playoffs.

The Saints have the option to attribute their season’s failure to injuries. As their next franchise quarterback, they placed a lot of emphasis on Jameis Winston, but his body hasn’t held up. For most of the season, they have been missing standout players like Marshon Lattimore and Michael Thomas. They’ll undoubtedly try to blame Allen’s injuries on bad luck and give him another season to prove he can perform to expectations with a stronger team.

A peculiar aspect of Duncan’s report is his statement that, because Allen is in the first year of a four-year contract as head coach, terminating him “at this moment would be cost-prohibitive.” Although Allen’s exact compensation is unknown, the majority of NFL head coaches make between $5 and $6 million annually, with the highest-paid coaches earning double digits. It’s quite difficult to accept that Allen’s buyout equals the $42 million the Saints are now shelling out in dead money for players who aren’t on their roster, according to Over The Cap. Although it would cost money to fire Allen and find a successor, Forbes estimates Benson’s net worth to be $3.8 billion. She is able to pay for it.