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For Saints coach Dennis Allen, players' decision to score late vs. Atlanta was no mutiny
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New Orleans Saints head coach Dennis Allen walks the field during ups before an NFL football game against the in New Orleans, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024. - photo by AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Saints coach Dennis Allen is taking a nuanced view of his players' decision to disobey coaches' orders and hand the ball off to Jamaal Williams for a 1-yard touchdown run in the final minute of a season-ending 48-17 victory over Atlanta. With a night to digest what happened, Allen stuck by comments he made immediately after Sunday's game that players were wrong to overrule coaches. But he also painted his players' conduct in that moment as an isolated incident under somewhat unique circumstances — not as an act of disrespect toward Saints coaches.