James Hurst theorizes on when the players started to separate from DA

I think that was more of the straw that finally broke the camels back. If players are willing to go against a coaches call then you have to assume they already didn't really respect him to begin with.
I've said this and I stand on it; if DA had a better pulse of the team and what they were trying to do, he would have let them run a play and if he had done that, he would have had the locker room from top to bottom. Not only did he bypass the "team" aspect but then openly admitted to apologizing and throwing the team under the bus. Everyone was like "nobody would dare do that to Sean" and they are right (LOL) but I believe that he would have ran them out there in heavy sets and see what happened.