Drew Brees has eyes on a former New Orleans saints star as the perfect replacement for Darren Rizzi

Drew Brees has eyes on a former New Orleans saints star as the perfect replacement for Darren Rizzi

The New Orleans Saints have been without a full-time head coach for a while now. Since parting ways with Dennis Allen mid-season, it was up to special teams coordinator Darren Rizzi to guide this sinking NFC South franchise the rest of the way.

Yes, there were moments when the team played hard for Rizzi, but we all knew the franchise would be big-game hunting for a long-term replacement.

One of the most obvious candidates for the Saints job would be one of Drew Brees’ former New Orleans teammates in Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn.

They briefly played together in 2008 before Glenn got into the coaching profession. Prior to following former Saints assistant Dan Campbell to Detroit, Glenn had been a vibrant part of some of Sean Payton’s final New Orleans staffs.

Of the handful of head-coaching hopefuls, I am the second most confident of Glenn getting to lead a team of his own behind only former Tennessee Titans head coach and Cleveland Browns assistant Mike Vrabel.

This is because Glenn is an elite defensive coordinator on one of the best teams in football, as well as having strong ties to both the Saints and New York Jets organizations previously.

Clearly, Brees thinks Glenn is the perfect candidate to guide the Saints into a new era of the franchise.

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Removing Vrabel from the equation, Glenn is arguably my favorite head-coaching candidate in this cycle.

He has been a part of two winning organization’s staffs in New Orleans and now Detroit. Glreen was an integral piece in the Lions’ cultural turnaround under Campbell.

Conversely, we have seen the Saints unravel in the wake of Campbell and Glenn departing for Detroit some three offseasons ago.