First of all, nobody is "right" about DA yet. Not the naysayers who believed he failed over his first couple of seasons, nor the sunshine pumpers who are crowning him after a wildly successful first two games of this season. He's 18-18 and in the very early stages of a pivotal season.
Even if you're of the opinion that we're legitimately good/great this season and that our early success will carry forward throughout the rest of the year, the fact is, DA has behaved differently than previous years. Pete Charmichael had zero business being hired as DA's 1st OC. ZERO. We all knew it at the time. He had less than zero business being retained for a 2nd season. Both seasons were predictable, miserable failures and wasted two years of our aging veteran defensive stars' opportunity to play meaningful football in the postseason and to compete for a title. I'm sorry, but getting off to a good start this year doesn't magically wash that away. That's 100% on DA. He mishandled the JW/AD situation. The lack of attention to detail was evident in our team's play. There was an obvious lack of accountability, something that was indirectly vocalized by some of our players. There were the numerous borderline comical sound bytes that paralleled mediocre-at-best performance on the field against two of the easiest schedules I can remember in nearly 40 years watching the NFL. He was in over his head the last two seasons.
To DA's credit, he's been a different dude since the end of last year. Pete was rightfully shown the door. He hired a bright young offensive mind from a proven system. He brought in proven, high-quality assistants to work with our young players on the offensive line. He ran a tough training camp, as we've heard directly from the players. He's called out and challenged players. He's more confident and charismatic this year. We're scouting our opponents better so far, and attacking matchups that favor us. Is it any wonder that we're playing better?
I hope we win the SB this year and DA goes down as one of the great coaches in Saints history. Having said that, we've had every reason to strongly question his capabilities through the first two seasons, because that version of DA simply wasn't cutting it. I like this version much better. Kudos to him for turning the page and being a noticeably better coach thus far.