They might have been in trouble
I very much doubt it bubbers. On one hand you could make the case that their training killed them (slowing to engine out speed schedule), but what the accident highlighted was,
1. The accident scenario had been considered during design, but considered to be so highly improbable as to be not worth worrying about, and the FAA agreed.
2. No instrumentation to inform crew of slat asymmetry
It's all those little holes in the cheese, the crew were blameless.