Saints interim HC Darren Rizzi: Everyone and everything will be reevaluated

Darren Rizzi held his first news conference since becoming interim head coach of the Saints on Monday afternoon and said “nobody should be happy” about what happened to the team this season.

The Saints fired Dennis Allen after the team fell to 2-7 following Sunday’s loss to the Panthers. It was their seventh consecutive loss and Rizzi, who has been the special teams coordinator since 2019, said his first act will be to take a look at the team’s entire operation to see what needs to change.

“As I told the team this morning, everything and everyone is being reevaluated,” Rizzi said. “Evaluated and re-evaluated as the product is not acceptable at this time. Everything from the schedule to how we do things, with the active players to the daily schedule, we’re going to look at everything.”

One change Rizzi doesn’t expect to make concerns the starting quarterback. He said he expects Derek Carr to line up at center against the Falcons and promised the team around him will be “full of passion and full of fighters.”