Why did Spagnuolo stink as Saints' DC? (merged)

I’ve wondered that exact same thing. Spags had some talented D-linemen with the Giants before coming to NO.. It’s no secret Spags places heavy responsibility on his D-line to allow other positions to excel.

We had a young Cam Jordan, an old Will Smith, Sedrick Ellis, Akiem Hicks, and Broderick Bunkley as our D-line. At LB we had Vilma, Curtis Lofton and Galette. At DB we had Greer, Harper, Jenkins, and Patrick Robinson.

I don’t know what the disconnect was between Coach and players but they gave up at the time the most yards ever 7,024. Reading some of the articles, it appears the change from Greg Williams who allowed his players to have input and do certain things, to Spags who was my way or the highway type really pissed off a lot of players.