No, but he was the one that brought it to light while simultaneously suing the NFL over "discrimination". The NFL was forced to punish someone for something to please the public, and us tampering with Brady just happened to be that something. Had Flores not done that, the NFL would have turned a blind eye to it like they typically always do.
Even if you see tampering as business as usual in the NFL --
and I'm pretty sure most people do -- you still have to blame Stephen Ross for getting himself exposed by involving someone like Brian Flores who evidently wasn't on board with it and made the whole thing public.
Again, if you're planning to tank that's one thing --
the fans generally went along with it -- but why hire a HC who's not on board?
If you're planning to tamper --
and most fans probably don't care how the sausage is made -- that's one thing, but why needlessly involve any party who's going to baulk at the idea and turn you in?
I'm not even clear on why Ross believed his HC
needed to be involved in any of the tampering.
I don't agree that an employer should assume some employee is willing to go along with nefarious practices even if those practices have precedent and aren't themselves out-and-out evil.
It seems like Ross could just march Tom Brady in the front doors one day and tell Brian Flores,
'you now have a new QB.'
It just makes the Dolphins look so dysfunctional. They can't
win. They apparently can't even
lose correctly. They can't arrange back-room deals correctly.
We can't compare ourselves to the more stable franchises until we start operating like them--and that begins with finding leadership that actually takes risks. If you believe in a HC then let that HC design the team he wants and let him tell you what QB he wants. If you believe in a certain QB then find a HC who'll go along with that plan. If you want to tamper, make sure everyone's in agreement. Don't expose the illegal activity to those who might turn you in.
It just doesn't seem that hard and yet the Dolphins screw things up by constantly trying to have their cake and eat it to. They can't figure out whether to prioritize the HC, the QB, the agreement of everyone, the priorities of the Owner, the home-grown talent or the premium splash waiting to be made in FA.
I think we're all beginning to acknowledge that maybe it wasn't all the HCs that've come and gone from Tony Sparano, Joe Philbin, Dan Campbell, Adam Gase and Brian Flores who were all
'unprepared to lead' and maybe it was partly the employer as well.
There's one constant in all the turnover and that's Stephen Ross entering the picture in early 2008.
The Dolphins went 1-15 in 2007 in a season where the franchise bottomed out as historically bad. The fact these guys convinced themselves to (purposefully) do it again a decade later kind of says everything, doesn't it? 
