Let's follow your team quit theory a little bit.
If indeed they quit, it wasn't when they were 5-4. they had quit the week before, but not at 5-3. They quit when they were 5-2 and all over the process. Who does that? Makes no sense.
Not buying the quit theory.
We're 9 games into a new regime. There will be ups and downs as here already has been. I just hope for more ups than downs.