No doubt, I don't think anyone overlooks that at this point - but Tua's almost become such a punching bag he's morphed into a scapegoat for the roster falling apart and HC being in over his head.
Specifically on McDaniel, I knew it was worse than we thought when he spoke last offseason about how fining players doesn't make them show up on time. Him and Fangio should've been a diet Reid/Spags where both sides are squeezing so much out of their units that upgrading the QB became the obvious elephant in the room to get over the hump. Instead he let a bunch of dudes who aren't even there anymore (Ramsey, Holland, Xa Howard) start a mutiny against Vic and run him out of town - just so he could win a SB running a great defense elsewhere the very next season.
He'll be an OC for someone at his next stop and probably get a crack at the main job one more time, but he's gonna have to evolve a ton when that day comes.
He’ll probably end up like a Josh McDaniels. Difference with Josh McDaniels is he had been with the Patriots for years, knew Vrabel, loved by Kraft, and had the owner willing to make him paid almost as much as a head coach. He has to be living the dream.
