What other coaches really think about DA and the Saints.

Of course he has nothing bad to say about DA and the ownership: he will never be held accountable for anything in NO. :hihi:

Really, what else is he going to say to the web staff of the team that just hired him? And, an NFL coaching job is not something you read about in the want-ads; it is a very small circle with a vey limited number of jobs. NFL types said good things about Rob Marinelli and Rich Kotite too. Same goes for Jimmy Johnson, Bill Parcells types.

Here's a quote from the article:
"He was, and still is, a very smart football coach, high energy guy, and someone that – even with me as an older guy, and I'd been coaching at that point 17 years in college ball, so that was my 18th year overall in coaching – I was still drawn to him because of his energy and his knowledge of the game and his passion of the game."

When has DA been a "high energy guy"? Does he look like a high energy guy on the sidelines? In practice? At pressers?

Another quote:
"When you look at the history of [the TE] position here, going back to Shockey and Jimmy Graham, who I coached, there's been a number of great tight ends," he said. "So there's a great tradition of having very good tight ends here."

The history of of the TE position in NO is Jimmy Graham; he's the only TE I can remember the Saints developed since Bobby Brenner who was "very good". Shockey was here at the tail end of his career (2 seasons). Same goes for Watson (3 seasons), who is a much better person and leader than he was a TE. Since Watson left, the TE position has been mediocre at best. For "very good" TE play before Shockey, you'll have to go to Wesley Walls, who came to NO as a FA for 2 years, but that was almost 30 years ago. Between Shockey and Walls, the only 2 TE's I remember are Cam Cleeland and Boo Williams, the former because he got his eye socket fractured when he was hit in the face with a bag of coins during practice, the latter because he was dubbed "Boo".

DA may be a great guy, and great/easy to work with; I don't know, because I don't know him personally or work for the Saints. The only comments I can make about DA revolve around the product on the football field, and the product on the football field has not been good in NO, and wasn't good in Oakland.