ESPN's Adam Schefter breaks down what's next for Saints after firing Dennis Allen

ESPN’s Adam Schefter said the New Orleans Saints likely won’t be active at the trade deadline following the firing of Dennis Allen.

Following a loss to the Carolina Panthers, Allen was fired after a 2-7 start to the season and special teams coach Darren Rizzi was named the interim head coach. The Saints are in the middle of a seven-game losing streak.

Schefter joined The Pat McAfee Show to discuss who could be moved, if the Saints decide to do anything Tuesday.

“I don’t think they’re going to be very active,” Schefter said of the Saints at the trade deadline. “I think they’re still sifting through right now, and obviously they have a game this week against Atlanta. I think they’re trying to move on with the coaching search. It’s not like it’s going to be a fire sale here in New Orleans. They have gotten some calls about Marshon Lattimore, their young, impressive cornerback, we’ll see whether they decide to move on from him. I don’t think they’ve made any decision there, and I think maybe it would depend on the offer, but this a team that obviously has always mortgaged into the future, and they’ve always been so creative and so smart about doing it. 

“But at some point you got to pay the bill, and look when you get a coaching change like this, inevitably there’s going to be more change. So, we’ll see all the changes that decide to come to New Orleans. This is the start of I think probably a lot of changes so they get a lot of things in store for that franchise here moving forward.”

The move to fire Allen didn’t come as a shock, considering where the Saints were as a franchise to this point of the season.

“Well, I think it’s been bubbling. If you watched that Thursday night game in New Orleans where Denver went down and won that game, I think there was trouble brewing then and yesterday afternoon, after the game, get the call that this was going to be happening,” Schefter said. “And you know, you wait to see if and when it actually does. And this morning, they made the decision officially to move on. 

“I think that this has been the works. They obviously have been thinking about it. Dennis Allen has meant a lot to that organization over time. So it’s not a simple thing to do. Never like to see it, but the fact that matter is, that was the direction they were going to go. The team’s lost seven straight games right now and early on, like through two weeks, this was like one of the surprise teams in the league. Scored over 40 points in each of the first two weeks. Everybody’s hailing the team and looking at the Saints, and then it unraveled pretty quickly. So they felt like they had to make a change here.”