The Saints began the season 2-0 with blowout victories over the Panthers and Cowboys.
However these two wins appear to be they had been an extended, very long time in the past, significantly because the Saints misplaced their sixth straight recreation on Sunday.
New Orleans had not misplaced six in a row since 2005 — earlier than the start of the Sean Payton period that lasted via 2021.
Head coach Dennis Allen was requested if he had considerations about his job safety after the membership’s Week 7 loss to Denver, and mentioned no. He wasn’t requested immediately about that once more after Sunday’s 26-8 loss to the Chargers. However he was requested if he looks like he must have conversations with the entrance workplace in regards to the state of the staff at 2-6.
“We have now conversations day by day, you recognize what I imply? So I don’t really feel any extra sense of, having to have these conversations,” Allen mentioned in his postgame press convention. “Look, I believe all of us perceive that it’s a results-oriented enterprise. And we have to play higher soccer.
“I believe all of us perceive that.”
One of many methods the Saints tried to try this on Sunday was by switching from quarterback Spencer Rattler to Jake Haener within the third quarter. However that didn’t actually work, because the Saints scored simply three factors with Haener in.
“I simply felt like we would have liked to do one thing to attempt to get one thing going offensively,” Allen mentioned of switching QBs. “We weren’t capable of transfer the soccer and I felt like we would have liked to do one thing to attempt to create some form of spark.”
Allen famous quarterback Derek Carr, who’s been out since struggling an indirect damage in opposition to Kansas Metropolis on Oct. 7, may probably return in Week 9. However even when he doesn’t, New Orleans has to play higher in opposition to the Panthers subsequent Sunday afternoon.
“The message is, it’s the individuals within the room in there which are going to have to vary it,” Allen mentioned. “No one’s coming from outdoors the constructing. It’s going to need to be the individuals within the locker room, coaches, to repair it. That’s what it’s. And now we have to pay higher consideration to all the main points. And now we have to do a greater job of teaching all the main points, as a result of the main points matter in our league and we don’t get to choose and select which of them do and which of them don’t.”
