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Former Saints Head Coach Dennis Allen Doesn't See Firing As Failure · AFR Saints

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  Speaker 1: speak for the first time since being fired as the
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  Speaker 1: Saints head coach. He was on Unbreakable with Jay Glazer
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  Speaker 1: and he did talk about the day that he was fired.
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  Speaker 1: Here was the description.
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  Speaker 2: I was let go on Monday morning. Mickey came into
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  Speaker 2: my office, closed the door, said let's talk. And Mickey
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  Speaker 2: was not really in favor of this move. And we
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  Speaker 2: talked and we had a really good conversation. So then
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  Speaker 2: he kind of said, well, let me let me there's
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  Speaker 2: a couple of guys. We'll talk to the coordinators. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk to Darren Rizzy, who's you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to have coach. No. He wanted to talk
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  Speaker 2: to them, and I said I said, look, I just
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  Speaker 2: I want to be able to address the staff. I
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  Speaker 2: want to be able to talk to the staff. And
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  Speaker 2: so I had a meeting at ten o'clock with the
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  Speaker 2: coaches and told them, hey, look this is what happened.
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  Speaker 2: This is I gotta let go. It's all conversation. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's an awful conversation.
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  Speaker 1: One more that's kind of laid out that day he
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  Speaker 1: did at number three please he uh, well, just listen.
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  Speaker 2: When I think about getting fired, I really think about, well, look,
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  Speaker 2: as this is your this is your company, this is
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  Speaker 2: your organization. You have the right to do whatever you
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  Speaker 2: want to do with that. And and I don't look
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  Speaker 2: at it as you know, I failed. I look at
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  Speaker 2: it as they just decided they wanted to go in
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  Speaker 2: a different direction. And if I not what they want,
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of spots that I will
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  Speaker 2: be what they want. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, I mean there's a lot of delusion there.
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Allen, in his career as a head coach, is
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  Speaker 1: twenty six and fifty three. He's got a three to
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine winning percentage as a head coach in two
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  Speaker 1: different states. In New Orleans, he was eighteen and twenty
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  Speaker 1: five a four to nineteen winning percentage, so again sub
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  Speaker 1: five hundred. He inherited an organization, a team that had
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  Speaker 1: gone to the playoffs in twenty seventeen, eighteen, nineteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: and missed in twenty one. He took over. Of course
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, went seven to ten, then nine
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  Speaker 1: to eight, only because of the strong finish against a
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  Speaker 1: week schedule, and then this year started two and seven.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the seven game losing streak, a defense that
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  Speaker 1: finished dead last in the NF fell. Boy, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know now, I understand confidence, right. In order to be
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  Speaker 1: a head coach, there has to have this. You have
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  Speaker 1: to have this sort of belief in yourself and your ability.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise it's what prompts a man in a situation. I
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  Speaker 1: had to want to be a head coach or anyone
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  Speaker 1: in a position of leadership because you believe in your
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  Speaker 1: ability to do it. But sometimes you have to be
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  Speaker 1: able to identify and self evaluate and be self critical
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  Speaker 1: and say what was my role in what went wrong?
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  Speaker 1: And for Dennis Allen to sit here after going eighteen
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  Speaker 1: and twenty five leading the Saints to a seven game
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  Speaker 1: losing streak the first time we had seen that since Katrina,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, actually longer than that. To not own any
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  Speaker 1: culpability for what went so terribly wrong during his time
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  Speaker 1: here is ignorant at best, stupid at worst, however you
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  Speaker 1: want to say it. I don't know, but Dennis Sound's
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  Speaker 1: gone no longer the same problem, and I don't suspect
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna have another opportunity to be a head coach.