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

I remember Triplett & Underhill last season pointing out that when Payton was here, during practice you could clearly see him handling the offense while DA handled the defense. Last year, right from the start DA was running back and forth from the offense, to the defense & even to special teams. Coach Dan pointed out that DA was handling defense only earlier this year, but the offense was so off track he felt he had to get involved, and it's taken his focus off the D--which has become progressively worse as the year has dragged on.

He could have given Nielsen full reign over the defense, fired Carmichael & hired someone new. Instead we get what we have---a poorly coached team with a head coach trying to be all things and succeeding at none.