New Orleans Saints interim coach Darren Rizzi is emphasizing change as he takes over for this season's final eight games.

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 ...

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Rizzi, in his sixth season as Saints’ special teams coordinator, has been named interim head coach after the Saints fired Dennis Allen on Monday. Here’s more about Rizzi, who takes over a team that lost its seventh straight game on Sunday when it fell 23-22 to the Carolina Panthers.

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.

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