“Pressure and stress” led the team to fire Dennis Allen

Some Saints fans will likely feel like Loomis is putting pressure on them, considering how the team had collapsed under Allen's watch. The GM evoked a column by Jeff Duncan of the Times-Picayune pointing out that players needed to be told to stop parking in public lots rather than a team-designated lot nearby show that Allen's tenure was misunderstood.

“We get silly things written to us like players not parking in the right places and that’s ridiculous. The players have parked there for the last 15 years,” Loomis said. “We are in the process of building (at the Saints factory), we have 100 more employees than we had 10 years ago. That's just silly. And to equate that with discipline is also silly. Going into this last game we had the eighth fewest penalties in the league; this is more of a comment on discipline than on where a player parks.

“But it comes back to what's staring you in the face: We had an unusually high number of injuries, including to our quarterback, and we couldn't overcome that. “It put a lot of pressure on the organization and ultimately it was a reason for change.”

The Saints named associate head coach/special teams coordinator Darren Rizzi as interim coach.