LSU’s Kim Mulkey doesn’t hold back on Saints-Falcons TD controversy, cites Nick
Atlanta Falcons head coach Arthur Smith, center, speaks with New Orleans Saints head coach Dennis Allen, left, after an NFL football game, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Tyler Kaufman)AP
Include Kim Mulkey in the group of those who were opposed to the New Orleans Saints scoring another touchdown during Sunday’s garbage time against the Atlanta Falcons.
“You put your knee on that ground, and you do exactly what you’ve been told to do from the head coach,” Mulkey told Sportstalk with Bobby Hebert. “I don’t want to hear it was (Jamaal Williams’) first touchdown. You can tell me if he scored a touchdown he was going to get a million dollars. No, you don’t do that. That is disrespectful not just to your head coach, it’s disrespectful to the other head coach and the other team. Because whatever goes around in this business, comes around.
“I don’t want to hear anybody defending what they did because that sends the wrong wrong message.”
With just one play, backup quarterback Jameis Winston and the Saints upset the Falcons, shocking their coach.
With 1:10 remaining, the Saints were in “victory formation,” leading 41-17, but Winston found Williams for a 1-yard touchdown, bringing the score to 48-17.
On the field, Saints coach Dennis Allen expressed regret to the furious Falcons coach Arthur Smith. The players on the field ignored the coaches’ orders to run out the clock, as Allen clarified during the press conference following the game.
Mulkey used Alabama coach Nick Saban’s name to tell Hebert that he shouldn’t put up with it.”You have to stand at half court and dribble the ball out; the shot clock is off, and there are thirty seconds or less left in the game, and we’re winning,” Mulkey declared. And that’s what some of my coaches have done to me. I told them everything I could, and you could have won by eleven. Everybody went outside to retrieve the final bucket. You prevailed 13 to 1. What are you teaching there, exactly?
We can refer to it as old school. Whatever you want to call it, you can. I usually refer to it as disrespectful. To be honest, this is the reason why Nick Sabans and Kim Mulkeys are unfit to be coaches.
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