re: Is it Pete's playcalling, or players not knowing the offense?

Carmichael is the problem for the teams success this season. What sucks about this is that the Saints brass new early in the off-season he had a faults and they tried to cover it up with consulting Gruden.

I give Allen a pass on this debacle because as much as I wish he exhibited more fire on the sidelines as HC, I think the saints brass has set him for failure. Allen is way too good of a DC for him to not know the problems of his own offense. Once the brass made the decision on the offense path forward for 2023, Allen's only option for the sake of the team is to rally around what he has and try to minimize the team disruptions as best he can.

At this point it makes no sense for the HC to make the OC failures a bigger problem for the whole team. Allen is still fighting for wins despite the offense poor performance. His in game management has not been the reason for losses, he has actually been pretty good at it.

Many will not like this, but I think DA sticks around next year and he gets to rebuild the offense staff. I much prefer to rebuild the offense with the current D, than to bring in someone that could really mess up both sides of the ball. We have seen that too often.