NFL insider predicts who could be the next Saints head coach

The New Orleans Saints canned head coach Dennis Allen after the team suffered an embarrassing loss to the Carolina Panthers. Special teams coordinator Darren Rizzi was promoted to the interim head coach spot and the Saints have been 2-0 since he took over.

Rizzi has a chance to prove that he has what it takes to be a full-time head coach but it won't be easy. The Saints were in a 2-7 hole when Allen was fired and their season seemed over at that point. While Rizzi has gotten them to 4-7 (and just two games out of first place in the NFC South because that division is a dumpster fire), he might have to do a lot more to ensure he can have the interim label removed from his title.

Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated was asked in his weekly mailbag who he thinks the next coach of the Saints could be and he gave two potential answers.

"If they get to, say, nine wins, the idea of going forward with Darren Rizzi as head coach might have legs. If the roster shows well the rest of the year, and they don’t quite make it there, then perhaps Loomis would be on the trigger for the coaching search. My guess is that Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn would be a prime target (Loomis loved Dan Campbell as a prospective head coach when he had him in-house, and former Saints assistant, Glenn, has many of the same strengths as Campbell)."

Albert Breer thinks either Darren Rizzi or Aaron Glenn could be Saints next head coach

Breer lays out how Rizzi can get the job and he thinks that the interim coach can potentially land the job if he gets NOLA to a winning record. That's going to be a difficult task considering the Saints would have to win out the rest of the way but crazier things have happened.

Breer also listed Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn as a potential option for the Saints as their next head coach. Glen was a defensive backs coach for the Saints from 2016 to 2020 and then took over as the Lions defensive coordinator in 2021 where he's experienced tremendous success recently.

Glenn will definitely be getting head coaching interviews in the offseason and perhaps his previous history with the Saints could interest him in accepting the head coaching job there. It'll be interesting to see not only how things shake out with Rizzi for the rest of the year but to see who else the Saints talk to over the offseason.