Dennis Allen: We all understand that this is a results-oriented business and we need to play better

The Saints started the season 2-0 with blowout wins over the Panthers and Cowboys.

But those two wins seem like a long, long time ago, especially since the Saints lost their sixth straight game on Sunday.

New Orleans had not lost six straight since 2005, before the start of the Sean Payton era, which runs through 2021.

Head coach Dennis Allen was asked if he was worried about job security after the club’s Week 7 loss to Denver, and he said no. After Sunday’s 26-8 loss to the Chargers, he wasn’t asked about it again. But he was asked if he felt he needed to talk to the front office about the state of the team at 2-6.

“We talk every day, you know what I mean? So I don’t feel the need to have those conversations anymore,” Allen said in his postgame press conference. “Look, I think we all understand that this is a results-oriented business. And we need to play better football.

“I think we all understand that.”

One way the Saints tried to do that on Sunday was by switching from linebacker Spencer Rattler to Jake Hehner in the third quarter. But it didn’t work as the Saints managed just three points with Henner.

“I just felt like we needed to do something to try to get something offensively,” Allen said of the QB change. “We couldn’t get off the ground and I felt like we needed to do something to try and create some kind of spark.”

Allen noted that defensive end Derek Carr, who is out after suffering an injury against Kansas City on Oct. 7, could potentially return in Week 9. But even if he doesn’t, New Orleans should play better against the Panthers next Sunday afternoon.

“The message is that the people in the room have to change this,” Allen said. “Nobody leaves the building. It has to be the people in the locker room, the coaches, to fix it. That’s what it is. And we should pay more attention to all the details. And we have to coach all the details better, because the details are important in our league, and we can’t pick and choose which ones fit and which ones don’t.”