I read this several times to try to find the actual things that Jason is truly responsible for.
Handle the roster? Alone? Really? At best he gets to request that his players are nice guys with high motors.
Field general? No signs of that at all. We have an adequate sample of his head coaching role and as you said he gets outcoached.
His only exclusive role that truly was his own was the offensive playbook.
From there it's really tough to see any difference in the team or how they play if he just did not show up for a few games. Nothing changes during the game and his gameplan remains virtually the same since 2007. Dom Capers just texted me with a

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I just can't understand what you are waiting for and what you have seen of his exclusive fingerprints of success and leadership that gives the hint of hope that something different is going to occur
this time as opposed to all of the other times.
Handle the roster? Really?