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

A couple of notes on Spazz’s time here in New Orleans.

1) it’s interesting how bad that Saints team was when Sean was out for the year. And he (Sean) was the only person missing. It seems like Loomis was exposed then when we were down. He put a set of coaches in place to replace Sean on the basis that they could maintain Sean’s culture, and at the end of the day they couldn’t. Fast forward nearly a decade later (when Sean left), and he tried pulling the same move with DA, and the experiment once again failed. Makes you wonder just how savvy Mickey and the front office are.

2) I had a thread that season (the Spags year) that called for Spags to be fired (granted it was after a win) that got an absolute avalanche of “down thumbs”. I believe it netted like 230 “down thumbs”. It was quite eye opening for me, as I thought everyone felt the same way. I still love this board, but I got a lot of crap for the thread, and it opened my eyes as to how off well respected opinions could be.