{"id":487094,"date":"2024-11-04T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=487094"},"modified":"2024-11-04T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:24:53","slug":"saints-dismiss-coach-allen-after-seventh-straight-defeat","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/saints-dismiss-coach-allen-after-seventh-straight-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints dismiss coach Allen after seventh straight defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints have dismissed manager Dennis Allen after losing their 7<sup>th<\/sup> consecutive match at the past weekend, the franchise shared today.<\/p>\n<p>Special teams coordinator Darren Rizzi will lead the franchise until they hire a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans triumphed in their 1<sup>st<\/sup> 2 matches this campaign but haven&#8217;t won since, with their latest defeat coming to the Carolina Panthers in a 23-22 loss.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Saints part ways with head coach Dennis Allen. (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RapSheet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeGarafolo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MikeGarafolo<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ApY1VXt9li\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ApY1VXt9li<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/1853452345041895467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Allen has been part of our franchise for many seasons. Dennis is highly regarded within the league. He has been extremely loyal and professional and, without a doubt, an excellent football coach for the Saints. Because of that, it is very tough for me and our team,&#8221; New Orleans owner Gayle Benson claimed.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 1<sup>st<\/sup> mid-campaign dismissing for New Orleans since the late Tom Benson purchased the organization in 1985. The last in-campaign dismissal came when Dick Nolan was fired after an 0-12 start to his 3<sup>rd<\/sup> campaign in 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints have dismissed manager Dennis Allen after losing their 7th consecutive match at the past weekend, the franchise shared today. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":487095,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16920,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[23368,18427,17873],"acf":{"announce":"New Orleans fired the head coach after the disappointing period.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/487094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/487094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487097,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/487094\/revisions\/487097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487094"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=487094"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=487094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}