HEA
Looking at some of the speculation, a high energy approach would have been a particular threat on this occasion. I see a lot of people complaining that modern pilots can't fly the aeroplane manually anymore, but there is a lot more involved other than just disconnecting the autopilot and flight directors and flying visually to the runway.
In a 300T jet careful energy management is very important, and visual approaches need prior planning. If ATC request a short notice visual approach, and you haven't planned for it (i.e. your too high and fast) then pilots should not be accepting such requests. ATC should be working for pilots not the other way around.
A second option would be to accept the request, but state the number of miles required to touch down.
Thirdly, if it all goes wrong and you can't get the aeroplane stablised by the landing "gate", then its a missed approach and everyone lives to fight another day.
Lets wait for the report from the NTSB and try and learn from this event.