burningmetal

No disrespect man, but you should go a little further back in this thread to see where I'm coming from. I said he failed to make the defense better, which is what he's supposed to do no matter the circumstance, and he deserves blame for that. The whole reason I'm talking about him is because I'm tired of everyone defending poor player performance and putting it all on him. Most of these players were already bad, or on a severe decline (i.e Smith, Vilma, Greer).

There's no excuse for being the worst defense in the history of the league. But these weren't Spags' players, and giving him one year to work with them (plus, an historically horrific off-season) didn't help him. I'm fine with the change the Saints made. I'm just not fine with people acting like these players weren't bad to begin with.

I disagree that Spags had no credentials of coaching defense outside of New York. He had very respectable defenses in St. Louis with less talent (you might remember what they did to us in '11).

And while no one denies the front 4 talent he had in New York, they haven't been the same since he left, and have had basically the exact same rotation, minus Strahan who was at that point probably their 3rd best lineman. What talent did they have past the defensive line? That team started the year horribly, couldn't cover a sleeping baby with a blanket, and he made some adjustments that completely turned them around. I surely didn't say Steve did a GOOD job here. I'm saying stop pawning everything off on him.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, the NFL would fine and suspend me.