Again I find really nothing to disagree with there.
Of course you can mostly blame the media for publicizing his perform till you drop mindset and that his program is the end-all (not that MB himself has, apparently, ever turned down an interview request).
I can understand the frustration at having to explain yourself and your program to people who don’t know a good program from a bad one-the public and the media(who seemingly only know hype).
On the fatigue thing I’ve been there too at the high school I coached at. The basketball coach would run the piss out of the players 2 days before and at times the day before a game. Then in warm-ups and naturally throughout the game guys were dragging. The coach would take that as the guys “just are not in shape” so he’d run the piss out of them the next day and the day after that since that would certainly “fix” everything-naturally the end result is the previously tired guys were now completely fried. With football (that I coached along with track) there was resistance to doing anything alactic since it did not jive with their traditional understanding of sprint training and fb. The jv coach was notorious for crushing his guys with non-stop sprints with minimal rests. Of course the only one that probably came close to a decent speed was the first rep and everything went to hell after that.
I do believe that Shafer was acting upon RR’s orders, though, since his history was not really with three man lines and lb is the most in-experienced position group on the defense. I guess SS would have liked to have gone with a 4-2-5 as they did most of the last game using Harrison as walked up safety/extra lb.