Dameris and Followill on the Presser

[mavsluvr]

OF COURSE. No debate. 

But generally speaking some are more responsible for certain aspects within an organization and so "assigning blame" can be a helpful exercise. It just has to be done carefully and soberly. 

And YES, even if Donnie and RC were really poor at their jobs recently, Cuban as their BOSS is accountable no matter what to a certain extent. But he DID change things, so we will see if he is correcting HIS errors or if the root issues are in HOW he operates as a owner.

It's always tempting in a somewhat ambiguous situation to simplify the narrative by designating heroes and villains. 

If things massively improve, as we all hope, I don't think it follows that Donnie and Rick were the villains or that Cuban did everything right. It probably means that the new voices are trying new things and Cuban is (hopefully) also making improvements in his areas of responsibility, all of them being educated by the mistakes of the past. 

As an example, Mark evidently did not consider Carlisle as on that much of a different page, as he was planning to continue to ride with him, at least for a while. Rick was the one who apparently found the situation untenable. This is not to say either of them was totally right or totally wrong, but that setting the problem up as Mark v Rick may not be a useful construct for getting at the facts. As you mention, it is worth examining the mistakes all parties made, along with their successes, to get to the truth, as much as we can, anyway.