As of Tuesday afternoon, there was no update on the status of New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr, who left Monday’s game against Kansas City with an oblique injury in the fourth quarter.

Carr said he suffered the injury on a deep pass attempt to Mason Tipton with 9:38 left in the Saints’ 26-13 road loss because of the torque generated by the throw.

Coach Dennis Allen said he would likely know the status in the afternoon or evening.

“Medical people went through all the evaluations this morning,” Allen said Tuesday, noting that the Saints arrived in New Orleans at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. “I expect I’ll probably get a medical update on all these guys sometime (Tuesday afternoon) in terms of what happened during the game.”

Carr completed 18 of 28 passes for 165 yards and two touchdowns, with an interception, in the game.

He was replaced by Jake Haener, a fourth-round pick last year, who completed two of seven passes for 17 yards and ran twice for nine yards.

“I thought he went in and did a good job,” Allen said of Haener. “He was under duress a lot, it got to the point in the game where they got a little loose on the pass rush. I don’t think there were many opportunities for him.”

Overall for the Saints, 2-3 and after losing three straight in Sunday’s game against Tampa Bay (3-2) at the Caesars Superdome, this was their worst performance of the season.

“I don’t feel like we played our best football,” Allen said. “I think we really have to look at what we do in the future and play better than we did on Monday night.

“We played a good football team in a hostile environment, and we didn’t do well in that game. That just tells us that we still have a lot of work to do, and we’re going to be working hard.” trying to do that.”

Allen said Saints coaches may have to scale back what they ask of players.

“When you don’t play as well as you need to – and I thought we made some uncharacteristic mistakes in this game that we hadn’t made in the first four weeks – I know defensively we had some new things we could do .were doing, I know we did some things offensively, but we just didn’t execute them as well as we needed to,” he said.

“So I think as coaches we have to look at what our role is in that, how can we put our guys in a better position to be successful, how can we simplify the thinking for those guys so they don’t have to do that. ” I think we’ll do that today as we prepare for Tampa Bay this week.”

Some of the offensive struggles may have been due to the breakdown of the offensive line. The Saints have been without starting center Erik McCoy since he left the Philadelphia game on Sept. 22 and starting right guard Cesar Ruiz finished against the Eagles but has missed the last two games.

Left guard Lucas Patrick moved to center to finish the game in Philadelphia, but against Atlanta he moved back to left guard when Shane Lemieux started at center with Landon Young at right guard. After Lemieux injured his ankle against Atlanta and was ruled out against the Chiefs, Patrick moved back to center and Nick Saldiveri started at left guard.

When Patrick suffered a collarbone injury during the game against Kansas City, Connor McGovern reported playing center, but when Patrick was deemed safe to return to the game, he came back to play left guard, replacing Saldiveri, with McGovern finished the game in the middle.

“Those guys were in a tough situation,” Allen said. “At times I thought we held up pretty well. I thought especially in terms of protection, at least early in the game, I thought we held up pretty well. We probably weren’t as good as we needed to be later in the game.” .

“I don’t think we got the movement at the line of scrimmage that we needed to get the run game going, so that was a little disappointing.

“It’s hard to do, to have so many changes to your offensive line, and yet we have to figure out ways where we can still move the ball and be effective.”