There was a certain amount of money to use to hire the defensive staff. Maybe we could have hired a $1 million DC. But then the amount of money left over wouldn't have been enough to staff the other positions with proper assistants. We'd possibly had to go bargain basement for the assistant coach spots. No Teerlinck, for example.

I can't say I really disagree with any of his moves there, assuming he spent all of the budget that he was provided.