They're both in the wrong. There are just right and wrong ways to go about your business. I don't believe in a team sport or competition you throw your fellow teammates or coaches under the bus, and Phil clearly did that. If he was motivated by trying to make positive changes in the future, he'd have later gathered a delegation of our star players and gone to the PGA and issued demands (and threaten to go public and making it nasty unless the PGA came to the table and agreed to some of those changes). But instead he chose to go off on Watson personally at the postgame presser, when really our biggest problem is how the PGA institutionally goes about appointing captains. First, this wasn't the time or place, and second, he was motivated by his panties getting in a wad over not playing Saturday after sucking on Friday. Though I certainly agree he shouldn't have played Friday afternoon in favor Reed and Spieth, and he should have been given another chance on Saturday morning.
And I agree with all of liveanddie's comments about our "hardass" coaches, Watson, Strange and Sutton. Not taking more player input and just listening to your fellow ancient assistants is plain stupid. And Watson, Strange and Sutton are probably our 3 worst in recent memory. It shouldn't be rocket science. Get to know the players a bit, take their input, foster a team environment and be publicly supportive and privately encouraging. Sutton was probably the worst. Not only was he a my way or the highway hardass, wasn't he the 1 who had the all-time lame decision of pairing Tiger with Phil? And then after we lost, he and his assistants pulled a Phil and went out and threw the players under the bus in the media afterwards.
The other problem I think we have is chemistry. The Euros always appear to have great chemistry. As much of an asshole as Seve was to everyone he played against during the year, be they Euro or American, he went out of his way to make all the Euro players welcome at the RC. We, OTOH, appear to have some natural divisions on our teams. We have the overtly Christian golf boys, we have Phil and his posse v. Tiger when Tiger is playing and maybe an old/young thing going on. And then captains who mostly appear not to be concerned with team building. Which is why Azinger's pod system seems to make sense - getting players with a smaller group of guys with whom they're most comfortable.