Former Saints kicker Will Lutz suggests boos from fans during Broncos' blowout win were not directed at him

Will Lutz made his instrumentality to New Orleans count. The one-time Pro Bowl kicker made each 4 of his tract extremity attempts to assistance assistance the Denver Broncos to a 33-10 victory implicit the Saints Thursday night.

But Lutz took announcement of the evident boos that rained down from the Saints' faithful during the game.

After Thursday's game, Lutz took to societal media to instrumentality an evident excavation astatine his erstwhile coach, Dennis Allen. 

"Ehh, I deliberation we cognize who was getting booed retired the building," Lutz wrote, on with a laughing emoji. "All love, WhoDatNation."

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Wil Lutz (3) and Riley Dixon (9) of the Denver Broncos observe a tract extremity during the archetypal 4th against the New Orleans Saints astatine Caesars Superdome Oct. 17, 2024, successful New Orleans.  (Gus Stark/Getty Images)

Allen, who took implicit arsenic caput manager aft Sean Payton concisely stepped distant from coaching, has faced scrutiny this season. During halftime, erstwhile Seattle Seahawks antiaircraft backmost Richard Sherman questioned the effort of the Saints players and suggested they wouldn't caput seeing their manager dismissed.

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"They don’t privation to tackle. They don’t privation to marque plays. These are bully players. Tyrann Mathieu is simply a bully player. The easiest interception of his beingness … and helium drops it," Sherman said during the Prime Video broadcast.

"I spot guys not having effort to get to the shot carrier, to marque tackles. Like, I don’t recognize this. It seems similar they privation to get their manager fired. That’s the effort they’re playing with."

After the game, Allen shrugged disconnected immoderate evident concerns astir his occupation security.

New Orleans Saints caput manager Dennis Allen, left, talks with Denver Broncos caput manager Sean Payton aft a crippled Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, successful New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

After winning the archetypal 2 games of the play convincingly, the Saints person dropped 5 games successful a row. The disappointing past fewer weeks person apt near the erstwhile arrogant instrumentality basal frustrated. The latest decision besides prompted a wide exodus from the Caesars Superdome successful the 4th quarter.

Cameras captured 1 instrumentality with a container implicit his caput that said "Life After Drew" portion others held signs that pleaded for help.

A Saints instrumentality during a crippled betwixt the Denver Broncos and the New Orleans Saints astatine Caesars Superdome Oct. 17, 2024, successful New Orleans.  (Gus Stark/Getty Images)

The connection referred to the tally of occurrence the franchise experienced with backmost Drew Brees. The five-time All-Pro retired aft the 2020 season, and the Saints person failed to suffice for the postseason ever since.

Brees was inducted into the Saints' Hall of Fame astatine halftime of Thursday's game.

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Lutz signed with New Orleans successful 2016 and stayed with the franchise done the 2022 season. He was traded to the Broncos successful 2023, reuniting him with Payton.

The Saints volition question to California adjacent week for a matchup with the Los Angeles Chargers.

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