METAIRIE, La. -- New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis was asked 41 minutes into an end-of-season press conference whether the decision to fire former coach Dennis Allen midway into a 5-12 season was "admitting a problem."
"Absolutely," Loomis said. "But that isn't just the coach. We've got to look at ourselves. I've got to look at the way I'm operating. I've got to look at the way that all of us in football operations were operating, all the way down to ... the injury issue. All the things that contribute to a successful program, you have to evaluate.