I see fans saying Fitz blame's Tua for his benching, I haven't seen that anywhere else. No, I don't think that anybody including Fitz knew that was going to be the game plan, seeing as it's well known that Gailey was brought back from retirement with the expectation that he'd be commanding an offense helmed by Fitz, and wasn't expected to be working with Tua that year. That's pretty much fact that the Tua thing was sprung on him unexpectedly. I don't know why we would expect Fitz to think any different.
Fitz, Gailey, and most other people involved had no reason to expect the QB change when it happened. Even if Fitz knew the team was eventually going young, the timing of the switch was stupid.
When taking as a whole, the decisions of Flores regarding the QB position border on supreme incompetence, or as is being commonly discussed - pretty much sabotage since he never believed in the young QB's he was given and wanted to prove they couldn't play so he could bring someone else. Because we all know he was a QB whisperer.
Sabotage of Tua is the only way I can think of that in the second to last week of the year, in a practical playoff game, you go on the road into freezing rain and wind, the most difficult conditions to play in (far more difficult than straight up snow, and pass the ball 65-75 percent of the time, despite having a running game that had been highly productive under Duke Johnson for going on a month. That will only ever be how that makes sense.
