Saints released Michael Thomas per Duncan; Thomas & Winston are Post-June 1 cuts
While DA has been with the team since 15, he wasn’t coach until 22. So for 7 years he was never directly over MT as MT was under the leadership of Pete (or more he was under Sean). It wasn’t until the loser was promoted to head coach that MT fell directly under his leadership.
If Mike is gone in a few days (weeks) I wish him well. He never did wrong by the Saints team I respected and enjoyed watching.
I mean, DA has many issues that make him a bad head coach, but not knowing what winning looks like and never being a big part of a winning team aren't among them. Just because a soon to be former player says bad things about DA that help to justify your hatred of DA doesn't make them true. I don't much like DA, to the extent that I think he should have been let go two years ago, but that doesn't make everything MT says true.
And the real point is that the coach we all know was great and a winner, Sean Payton, did have enough issues with MT despite all the winning that he eventually suspended MT for insubordination.
And while I wish MT the best in life, he is the one who campaigned to have Derek Carr signed as the QB of this team. So I think he did do wrong by this Saints team.
The sum of all of this is MT is upset because the Saints aren't going to offer him another fat paycheck like they did last year and as a result he is going to go out flaming because that's his personality. Ask yourself, if he hated DA this much and thought he was such a loser, why did he sign a contract to play for him last year and campaign for him to sign Carr? He has been on the team and known DA for years. Seems like he would have known all he needed to know about DA when he signed laster year. I think the answer is that he only had problems with DA when he saw that the paychecks were going to stop coming.
Finally, if Winston went out like this flaming DA, I would get it. DA screwed Winston over when he lost his job due to injury after DA told him he would not. But, we all know Winston isn't going to do that because he's not that kind of guy.