New Orleans Saints have sacked head coach Dennis Allen following their seventh consecutive defeat of the season.
Sunday’s slender 23-22 loss to the Carolina Panthers marked the franchise’s longest shedding streak since 1999.
Allen departs having failed to succeed in the play-offs in his two-and-a-half season tenure, with 18 wins from his 43 video games in cost.
Particular groups coordinator Darren Rizzi will take the helm on an interim foundation for the remainder of the marketing campaign.
In a press release Saints proprietor Gayle Benson stated the choice to half firm with Allen was “very robust” however one they “wanted to make”.
Normal supervisor Mickey Loomis added: “This season we’ve got had an avalanche of accidents. It took its toll and Dennis Allen has by no means supplied any excuses.”
Allen, 52, beforehand spent two years within the head coach function on the then-Oakland Raiders earlier than turning into defensive coordinator in New Orleans and stepping as much as the highest job in 2022, when Sean Payton walked away.
He turns into the second NFL coach to lose his job this season, with Robert Saleh having been dismissed by the New York Jets final month.