With Dennis Allen gone, interim head coach Darren Rizzi is making some changes for the New Orleans Saints. Here are three that stand out, and why they make sense.

Darren Rizzi said he wanted to make changes as the interim coach of the New Orleans Saints. That included a rearrangement of his staff. Rizzi said pass rush specialist Brian Young will run the defensive line room, while the Saints moved former defensive line coach Tood Grantham to be a senior advisor for defensive coordinator Joe Woods.

Darren Rizzi announced the Saints are bringing in a new assistant coach. With his attention divided, Marwan Maalouf will assist with special teams operations:

He was a former tight end at the University of Rhode Island and he got into coaching in 1993, one year after graduating.

Darren Rizzi's first public move as New Orleans Saints interim head coach is to change the setup of the locker room back to how things used to be. Instead of being grouped by positions, players were just randomly placed at lockers throughout the locker room.

Todd Grantham was pulled from his defensive line duties and is now a senior adviser to defensive coordinator Joe Woods. Defensive assistant Brian Young now oversees the defensive line and works with linebackers coach Mike Hodges to coordinate New Orleans' run defense.

Derek Carr: '(Rizzi) said we've got to do something different and we all have to buy in to that. And we bought in to it'

Dennis Allen was fired as head coach of the New Orleans Saints on Monday following the team's seventh consecutive loss. Allen was 18-25 with the Saints, who won their first