By all accounts DA held a tougher TC than he'd done previously, and the guys seemed to respond to it, but then once the season kicked off, they went back to the light practices etc. Some of me feels like this is a byproduct of how DA likes to build teams. Looking at his Raiders history he preferred veteran teams over youth. However, w/ veteran teams, due to age and injury susceptibility, you tend to scale practice back. They know what it takes to get themselves ready, etc you just need to make sure you coach them up on film during the week, and expect them to come out ready to rock and roll. You could tell DA absolutley detested that we had such a young and inexperienced O-line on the edges and he always talked up the veterans on the team.
His philosophy was his undoing. He was inherently passive..all the way down to his reluctance to blitz and preference for dropping 8 in coverage.