Darren Rizzi said the Saints will bring in Marwan Maalouf, who was most recently the Vikings ST coordinator. He said it will be a quality control type of role to take some things off his plate. They have worked together in Miami and at Rutgers ...

Rizzi, in his sixth season as Saints’ special teams coordinator, has been named interim head coach after the Saints fired Dennis Allen on Monday. Here’s more about Rizzi, who takes over a team that lost its seventh straight game on Sunday when it fell 23-22 to the Carolina Panthers.

The Dennis Allen era in New Orleans is over. In the midst of his third season as head coach of the Saints, the team elected to fire him after a 2-7 start to the 2024 NFL season, including an embarrassing loss to the Panthers in Week 9.