Armchair quarterbacking may be fun but it has no validity
Premier league would be a more appropriate analogy than NFL from these shores, so maybe midfield maestro!
No pilot would have accepted the plane for flight dispatch in the same condition that it landed. And no pilot aware that the status annunciation related to a 3.7m2 piece of missing aircraft would have continued the flight. So if that is correct, the question remains as whether safety was compromised to satisfy the bean counting champions of Smithsonian economics.