Looks like the Culture is indeed dead

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But the first change needed to be implemented between the ears rather than between the lines. The Saints’ workplace culture had devolved. It didn’t happen overnight. But gradually the standards that had been set in the building over the years were not being met.

As the season progressed, attention to detail waned. Some players were late to meetings. At some road games, buses to and from the stadium rolled late. At one point in midseason, an audit revealed dozens of players had not been using their Microsoft tablets to study the team’s digital playbook during their off times from the facility, an issue that was quickly addressed and corrected by team leaders.

Another example of this ennui: An increasing number of players and staff began parking in the smaller public parking lot at the team’s training facility rather than the larger, gated lot reserved for them on the side of the facility. Some players even regularly parked in the front lot’s four handicapped spots. At times, this created an unnecessary shortage of parking at the facility that team officials said would be addressed but apparently was either neglected or ignored.

On their own, these might seem like minor issues. But collectively, they create an environment that encourages inertia, disorder and lowered standards, a football version of the broken windows theory — that if a window in a building is broken and left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken, leading to neglect, misbehavior and even criminal activity. The principle was developed to explain the decay of neighborhoods, but it is often applied to criminology and work and educational environments.

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