Former Armagh star Oisín McConville has said his county's loss to Roscommon marked a low point in their fortunes, and claimed there is an "apathy" developing among supporters.
The defeat also marked the end of Paddy O'Rourke's time in charge of the side.
"It's a low ebb as far as Armagh football is concerned," McConville told RTÉ Radio's Take Your Point.
"I think we progressed for ten years and we seem to have gone back in the last five."
Conville added: "There's a couple of things you can attribute that to, and one of them would be that we don't have the calibre of players that we have done in the past. And that's an argument that most people would accept.
"However, you would feel that having put in a half-decent performance against Tyrone, we were going the right way.
"I think we came out today and played in a completely different manner, and the manner of the defeat is the one that will worry Armagh supporters most when they're driving home from Roscommon this evening."
The 2002 All-Ireland winner feels all parties need to pull together if Armagh to return to the heights they reached during his career.
"I think we have an apathy towards our county team at the minute and I think we need to get everybody on board," McConville said.
"We have had good success at underage. My opinion is that the players are there and it's a matter of harnessing those players, getting them on board, and, if we can do that, then we can challenge."
Commenting on the Roscommon defeat, McConville questioned the Armagh side's attitude.
"Roscommon were disjointed. They've lost players. The word going down was that they weren't the team they were two years ago that we saw in Croke Park against Tyrone.
"You would have to say that Armagh fell into that trap today. We were complacent. We were five points up at half-time. We should have closed the game out. We could have been 10 or 12 points up at half-time.
"To put the whole game in context, it's a game we feel we left behind but at the same time Roscommon definitely deserved their victory on the day."
There is a school of thought that believes that the success of Crossmaglen Rangers in recent years has had a negative effect on Armagh's inter-county fortunes, but McConville – a Crossmaglen clubman himself - refuses to accept that is the case.
"I think that's an issue if there's five or six boys involved. But we (Crossmaglen) only had two who started today, and for me that wasn't the issue.
"We (Armagh) didn't play with the same intensity as the last day. I think we felt as if we were going to go down there and we were going to come home with a victory because everybody felt that we should do that. As you know, Gaelic football doesn't work like that."
