Dennis Allen Gets Fired
When Reggie McKenzie took over as GM for the Raiders and kicked out Hue Jackson, he brought in the tiny pipsqueak Dennis Allen to be the first new coach of the Raiders post Al Davis. Dennis Allen was a Defense guy and the youngest coach in the league. Frankly I was never impressed with the guy, he really has the physical presence of a mouse. On the sidelines even being all coachy during games he still looked like a wimpy coordinator. Like a secondary coach or a water boy. Maybe one of those guys who hold the first down markers. I could beat up Dennis Allen.
He was given a few years, and rightfully so. No coach deserves to be jettisoned after one season (Goddamnit Browns) and the Raiders were dealing with very large salary cap issues left behind by Al Davis contracts, so he was given a little slack. But in his tenure he proved to be a non-entity and now with the Salary Cap woes gone this season Allen’s excuses would no longer work. Part of me wonders if Allen was ever really “the guy” or if Reggie knew what sort of cap hell he’d have to weather in Oakland for a while before getting a real chance to build something and just threw Allen in there to hold the fort. Whatever the case is, Allen is gone, fired over the phone after they recently got blown out by the Dolphins in London. At one point Derek Carr was trying to limp off the field, clearly in severe pain, and no player or coach came out to help him off. After that happened every Raider fan not already against Allen turned on him.
I wish they had left him stranded in London all Lane Kiffin USC style.
I was about to comment, is that Otto piloting the plane? And then I read the Alt-Text, you’re a smart man Dave.
I thought the same thing. Made me laugh. More so because he’s probably the brightest guy on the plane.
Surely you’re joking.
I’m not, and don’t call me Shirley.
I’m a Raiders fan and agree completely with all of this. Allen always looked lost. When he looked at a replay on the scoreboard his expression was always confusion as if he was trying to figure out what sport he was watching. Well done as always, Dave.
P.S. Otto was a fantastic touch.
And Mark Davis’ Dumb and Dumber cut is also spot on.
Well it’s that or Dauber from Coach.
If he hires Hayden Fox… warning.
I feel kinda bad for Dennis Allen. Poor guy could’ve been Vince Lombardi, but the fact of the matter is he was handed an unfixable situation, between the lack of talent, absurd contracts, and whatnot. The Raiders are a reclamation project that needed at least half a decade, probably more since Allen wasn’t a HoF coach.
That’s one adroable pilot.
Pretty sure that pilot is Otto.
Alt text confirms your hypothesis.
No coach deserves to be jettisoned after one season.
*cough*camcameron*cough*
Some of the decisions he made at Miami in 2007? Never mind being fired, I’d have had him SHOT.
The fact Cam managed to stay in the big leagues as long as he did is astounding.
Is it that astounding? I mean, Norv Turner is constantly getting hired, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Heck, he was even praised on TNF for his handling of the development of the QBs in Minny (as his team was getting annihilated on public for all to see).
Not to be all picky, because this is spot on, but shouldn’t his tie be blowing towards the back of the plane, and not the front?
The plane is being driven by a balloon pilot from a movie I think you and your realistic physics talk can just vamanos, good sir