Every issue on the football field is fixable, IF

Every issue is fixable. The penalties. Milroe. The OL and DL. The secondary. Pick any issue you want. We won a national championship with Jake Coker...after he was benched early season. We went undefeated with Greg freaking McElroy. Both were in their first years as starters. Those QBs were coached up.

They are all fixable issues if players are well coached, and disciplined. Right now, we are poorly coached and undisciplined, and that lack of discipline is obviously tolerated. Malachi Moore's tantrum has been discussed ad nauseum. But Chapman and Morgan? Walking into Neyland with cigars in their mouths? Chapman played and worked under Saban, but this isn't about Saban. If he was working for Sark or Kirby, he wouldn't have done that either. He did it yesterday because he had that comfort level working for DeBoer. Communicating to the players that hey, we've got this thing won before we even walk into the locker room.

Want to cut Chapman some slack because maybe he and DeBoer are still getting to know each other? Morgan has worked for DeBoer for 2 years, and he felt that comfort level.

My opinion is that neither the players nor the staff respect him. And when I say respect, I don't mean some feel good definition of respect. I mean the kind of respect that includes a staff member having a healthy fear of having his arse chewed out.

It starts at the top with DeBoer, and then the staff. There's lots of disagreement on this board about what the more critical issues are to fix. I think it's safe to say that regardless of those disagreements, no one has confidence in DeBoer right now to fix things. The undisciplined environment has been allowed to take root not just with the players (15 penalties?) but also with the staff.

I hope I'm wrong, but time will tell.