Lest ye forget, another DA bungle: losing Aaron Glenn, Ryan Nielsen, and Kris Richard

Allen has a lot of faults as a losing coach. Losing Nielsen, Richard and Glenn isn’t the cause of this team losing.

Glenn took a promotion to run his own defense a season before Allen became HC. Nothing could be done to stop Glenn from leaving for a higher position while Allen was DC over a defense that DA developed and maintained.

Nielsen also took a promotion to become standalone DC. D-Line pass rush was still inconsistent or nonexistent while Nielsen was over the D-Line here.

Richard was the only coach that was let go and his termination improved the secondary a lot in turnovers. We have over twice the amount of INTs that we had last year with Richard running the secondary and defense. The blown coverages at inopportune times still happened during Richard’s tenure as co-DC/DB coach. Richard isn’t coaching anyone at the moment.