Dennis Allen’s Demise
This is the comic I had halfway done before I was plunged into the depths of Snotsville, Fevertown. So apologies if it’s a bit outdated. Not only did Dennis Allen get let go over a week ago, his replacement already won a game.
In an offseason marked by a lot of interesting coaching decisions one of the biggest headscratchers was the Saints not firing Dennis Allen. The Saints were an afterthought last season, a team you barely remember existing until they randomly ended up on Redzone being scored on. Most notably the team seemed to actively quit on Allen altogether. In the final week of the year Jameis Winston and company rejected Allen’s decision and improvised a play so Jamaal Williams could finally get a single TD. Arthur Smith got pissed off, Allen threw the team under the bus, and everyone laughed at Allen for losing the locker room. Amy Trask went viral for ripping him for his time in Oakland reflecting how shitty a person he was. There didn’t seem to be any reason to keep the guy. Maybe the cap situation? You don’t want to pay another coach? I guess? The terrible cap management didn’t stop them from signing Derek Carr to a huge deal. The Saints operate like money is theoretical and the bird is coming home to roost ever so soon.
But they kept Allen. Then for 2 weeks the hire of Klint Kubiak looked like the genius big-brain decision that would save the franchise. Then the next 7 weeks happened and we all remembered that oh yeah, Dennis Allen fucking sucks. This defensive smartboy had a team with the worst tackling efforts in the NFL. That’s a big sign that nobody gives a shit. After being embarrassed by Carolina and making Bryce Young happy, Allen was finally given the boot he so richly deserved. Another good indicator of how little anyone respected Allen in that locker room is how the Saints came out against Atlanta and played like a goddamn football team for interim Darren Rizzi.
Allen might be one of those solid coordinator/bad leader guys. The Saints had some decent defenses under him over the past decade. Of course they also had a hall of famer on the other side covering up mistakes and the team wasn’t so badly managed to start. That situation has only gotten worse. I wonder where Allen ends up now.
Also, as an aside: for fairly obvious reasons at this stage, I have locked my twitter account and plan on abandoning it. I haven’t deleted anything yet because after 14 years of shitposting I have a lot of history I want to sort through. Like most like-minded fellows I’ve switched over to BlueSky, so if you missed my announcement somehow, here is my account. It is by far the site I am the most active on, especially on gameday, and I post some dumb shit there that never makes it to this page. I’ve also thought about (not too seriously) starting up a private little DrawPlay discord as a place for you readers and stuff to just join me and post about random shit during games, talk football, have ideas for comics, etc. Let me know if there’s any interest in something like that.
I’ve been very pleased to see some more significant abandonment of Twitter since the election, but it’s not enough, not nearly enough. More blood for the blood god!
I would love to join a Draw Play discord!
Yeah, I have to say that I love the idea as well.
Dicksword (as it is now forever known after a particularly boozy RPG sesh) is a great option, I’m on there for various things.
You make a discord I’m there like Davante Adams to a mediocre QB
Why hang out on a service owned by Crypto Bros, when you can join us on Mastodon. There are dozens of us. Dozens!
And you’re all on different servers and impossible to accurately search for and everyone there is exactly the same kind of dweeb that thinks that’s super cool
Ooh, a Discord server would be awesome!
Also if I had a nickel for every time you drew Dennis Allen suffering a plane-related death after he got fired, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice: https://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/dennis-allen-gets-fired/
It’s incredibly frustrating that blue sky doesn’t let you have notifications for the accounts you follow. Maybe I’m just missing something though, it doesn’t seem like anyone else has a problem.
It’s not implemented yet. You can go over to Bluesky’s Github page to track the progress on it and other requested features.
Tbh I’m not sure why anyone would activate notifications for social media sites outside maybe DMs. I don’t need my phone going off like that
Would love a discord server
I blocked twitter on my computer. I still go and check what’s trending, or I look up accounts for news. But my for you page is deadass blocked on my computer. That shit is so filled with Russian bots it is unbelievable.
I’d join a TDP Discord for sure
Please make a discord. I need a place to talk football that isn’t full of morons and trolls.
Good on you for leaving. I keep telling my friends to get out of the relationship.
I’m here for a draw play discord, I don’t think I ever willingly left your patreon either.
Dave, you were my last reason to be on Twitter so I am happy to be able to jettison that tumor-riddled cesspool. And I would be thrilled for a Draw Play Discord. I would join that so fast.
Count me in for the Discord interest. I’m deleting twitter since I’m done with it.
Are you going to replace the embedded twitter link with your Bluesky link?