Any Super Bowl-winning head coach who tries to nominate himself for sainthood should immediately be scanned through a Bureau-grade fraud-detector examination. One simply cannot reach the highest peak in professional sports without even a little cashing-in of what we’d all consider our standard ethics and morals.
Any Super Bowl-winning head coach walking away from football amid a strange and tenuous quarterbacking situation involving Tom Brady should also trigger a fleet of curious hand-on-chin emojis.
That said, Bruce Arians’s decision to walk away on Wednesday, specifically, as he told former boss Peter King, to give Todd Bowles a crack at coaching Brady and to keep him from a horrifically whitewashed coaching cycle (where he’d almost certainly be low-balled and stuck with a non-competitive quarterback), was about as good as we can ask for nowadays.