Unless everything implodes before then, I think they do all their firing after week 18.

I dunno, if Allen goes now, the new coaching regime gets a year to give Carr another shot, show some modern offense, and draft a replacement (one Jayden Daniels, please) to sit behind him a la Alex Smith and Mahomes.

The biggest indicator in this to me is the shift I’ve seen in Nick Underhill’s opinion. All season he’s reported that this front office will ride or die with what they’ve got. But in the last week or so his rhetoric has taken a much harder turn against the coaching. He said that he thinks Kamara’s recent comment about the locker room not being lost “amongst the players” was a deliberate dig at this coaching staff.

Reading between the lines, I can’t help but think Underhill talked to someone very high up with the Saints and they told him off the record that major changes are coming.