I know it's impossible, but it would be nice if we fans could know exactly who made which decisions and why in this clown show. Who made the decision to ignore upgrading the o-line? Who thought that Dallas Thomas was an NFL starter? Did Philbin tell Hickey that Thomas was going to be good? Did Hickey or Tannenbaum tell Philbin that he was getting no one and to work with what he had? There has to be a reason why Philbin kept playing Thomas and no one brought in a better replacement. I hated Philbin as Head Coach and still do, but was he handicapped by the Front Office on personnel decisions, or was the Front Office getting the guys that Philbin wanted? We already know that the Front Office got rid of guys that Philbin didn't want. Why were obvious holes not filled? Who decided that they didn't need quality LBs or DBs this year?
IMO, it looks like Tannenbaum knowingly set the team up to fail so that he could bring in his own guys. There would be no reason to do this since Philbin would have failed on his own. If Ross had only cleaned house completely when he fired Sparano they probably wouldn't be in such a mess right now. I wish that Ross would get rid of Tannenbaum, since he's part of the problem.