“There is no way to sugarcoat that. I’m an a--hole. That’s about the best way to put it and I hate it.”
Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell said to the media on Thursday about having to release the team’s 17-year veteran long snapper Don Muhlbach on his 40th birthday.
“There was no way around it, really,” Campbell said. “Yeah, you could say there is, but ultimately, that falls on me. It’s my fault and Don’s a hell of a dude. It sucks, but it is what it is.”
While Campbell takes full responsibility publically, decisions like this aren’t made in a vacuum, and the organization's collaborative approach to roster building points to this being a multi-person decision, especially considering the roster fluctuation that followed.